The dashboard is the manifest compressed to one page: every discipline reduced to red, amber or green, with the counts behind each colour one click away. Managers read it in thirty seconds; the integrator reads it for thirty minutes, because a green built on waivers about to expire is not the same as a green built on clean checks. This topic builds the NanoSoC dashboard, teaches how to read one honestly, and shows the burn-down trend that predicts whether the date holds. Its one job is the summary and its honesty; the meeting that acts on it is the next topic.
Lesson | After it you can... |
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Name the one headline metric per discipline, the evidence behind it, and the usual way it is made to look green when it is not. | |
Roll eight discipline reports into one page with a script that can fail. | |
Call the signoff-complete date from the burn-down slope, and spot a stalled discipline. |
Suggested order: top to bottom. Metrics first, because the roll-up only works if each input is honest; then the script; then the trend. For the owner-side dashboards this one summarises, see Closure Metrics Dashboard, Timing Signoff Dashboard, Power Signoff Dashboard and the CDC and RDC dashboards in the CDC course.
What the greens were built on: clean checks against the baseline, or waivers, stale results and exceptions. The dashboard must show the composition of each green, not just its colour.