CHAPTER 6
WHY COLLABORATION
IS CRITICAL
In my consulting work I’ve seen a huge number of data visualization and dashboard initiatives fail. Almost all of these failures had something in common: the developers didn’t understand what the audience needed, and the audience didn’t understand what the developers built.
Here’s how you can avoid this.
Had you told me not that long ago that I would advocate building a dashboard by committee, I would have said you were crazy. I was convinced that business data visualization was a me-only activity and I should only surface when I had questions about the data.
I’ve completely changed my thinking on this as I’ve seen much better results when people collaborate than when they build things independently.
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