Building Better Dashboards: A New Way to Promote Accountability

It's amazing the things you can find on Twitter. I saw an interesting tweet by Dr. John Estrella referencing his blog post on a new way to present dashboard information.

Rather that showing red/yellow/green status on milestones or work packages, Estrella suggests tying those status indicators to the teams or individuals on the project. This way, ambiguities are reduced and accountability gets distributed across the project team instead of leaving everything accountable to the project manager.

I could even see a hybrid, where team or individuals, along with their major deliverables are listed. So, a team or individual with multiple major deliverables would be listed multiple times. This still promotes distributed accountability, but keeps the focus on outcomes. Under this scenario, it's also important to list prerequisite deliverables (i.e. interdependencies).

It's an interesting concept that has generated positive results to date. Read on for more...

http://blog.johnestrella.com/2009/05/a-better-way-to-present-dashboard-report/