LR-301i · Module 2

Dashboard Maintenance and Evolution

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A dashboard built once and never updated becomes a monument to a past risk landscape. Dashboard maintenance ensures the indicators remain relevant, the thresholds remain calibrated, and the data sources remain connected. Evolution adds new indicators when new risk categories emerge and retires indicators that no longer drive decisions.

Do This

  • Review dashboard indicators quarterly — are they still the ones that drive decisions? Remove any that do not
  • Recalibrate thresholds when the baseline changes — a threshold set for ten agents is not appropriate for fifty agents
  • Test data pipelines monthly — a dashboard with stale data is worse than no dashboard because it creates false confidence

Avoid This

  • Add indicators without removing old ones — dashboards grow until they are unusable unless actively pruned
  • Keep thresholds static as the business scales — static thresholds produce false positives at scale or false negatives at low volume
  • Assume data pipelines are reliable — untested pipelines fail silently, producing dashboards that look current but are not