The Benefits of Setting Expiry Dates for Dashboard Metrics
By
adrianhoward
A respectable bake. You'd come back tomorrow for another.
Summary
The author advocates for setting expiry dates on dashboard metrics to prevent them from becoming stale and encourage regular reassessment. They share a personal experience where an expiring metric helped their team identify improvement opportunities over 18 months, leading to six consecutive months of month-on-month improvements. The core message is that expiry dates force teams to periodically evaluate whether metrics are still relevant and useful, rather than letting them accumulate indefinitely.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledToday the expiry date for a dashboard metric came up.
Tracking it for the last eighteen months has helped us spot some opportunities to improve.
In the last six months exploring some of those opportunities has helped us improve month-on-month for the last six months.
But having an expiry date means we get to take a step back and reassess whet
TL;DR: Set expiry dates for your metrics!
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