Dashboard Specification
Specify a dashboard from the questions it must answer, before anyone builds it — the artifact that prevents a chart-salad dashboard nobody uses. Scopes the audience, the decisions, and the questions FIRST, then designs the dashboard layout: which widgets/charts answer which question, their metric definitions, filters, refresh, and visual hierarchy. The output is a build-ready spec, not the dashboard itself. Use this for planning a dashboard, a BI/reporting spec, a metrics dashboard design, deciding what charts a dashboard needs, or a dashboard requirements doc.
How it runs
| # | Step | Who runs it | What happens |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scope the questions | Planner | lock the audience, decisions, and questions the dashboard answers |
| 2 | Design the dashboard | Designer | produce a build-ready layout: widgets, metrics, filters, hierarchy |
| 3 | Evaluate | Reviewer | Grade the deliverable against every acceptance criterion. All pass → finish; any fail → loop back and fix the gap. |
| 4 | Finish | Developer | All acceptance criteria met. Stamp a short summary and report DONE. |
Say something like "spec a dashboard" or "plan a metrics dashboard" or "dashboard requirements" or "what charts should my dashboard have" or "bi dashboard design" in chat to start it.