The fourth version of a dashboard is rarely better than the first. It exists because nobody owned the third.
The ownership gap
Analytics assets get built by a project and inherited by nobody. When a definition drifts, there is no one whose job it is to notice — so the next requester builds their own.
The fourth version exists because nobody owned the third.
Name a definition owner
Not a dashboard owner — a definition owner, per metric. One person who signs off when the calculation changes and who is notified when an upstream field moves.
Retire aggressively
Anything unopened for ninety days goes. If retiring it causes an outcry, you have found an owner.
