dashboard-brief

# Dashboard Brief Skill This skill converts a business question or monitoring need into a complete, implementation-ready dashboard specification. The output gives a data engineer or BI developer everything they need to build without a follow-up meeting. ## Required Inputs Ask the user for these if not provided: - **The business question this dashboard should answer** (e.g. "How is our activation funnel performing this week?") - **Primary audience** (exec / product team / operations / customer success / engineering) - **Refresh cadence** (real-time / hourly / daily / weekly) - **Data sources available** (e.g. Postgres, BigQuery, Mixpanel, Salesforce, Jira) - **BI tool being used** (Looker / Metabase / Tableau / Power BI / Grafana / Custom / Unknown) ## Output Structure --- # Dashboard Brief: [Dashboard Name] **Business Question:** [The question this dashboard answers — verbatim from inputs or refined] **Audience:** [Who uses this] **Refresh Rate:** [Real-time / Hourly / Daily / Weekly] **Data Sources:** [List] **BI Tool:** [Tool or Unknown] --- ## Section 1: Key Metrics (KPI Cards) List the headline numbers that should appear at the top of the dashboard as KPI cards. | Metric | Definition | Data Source | Comparison | |---|---|---|---| | [Metric name] | [How it's calculated] | [Table/source] | [vs. last week / vs. target / MoM] | Aim for 3–6 KPI cards. More than 6 is noise. --- ## Section 2: Charts & Visualisations For each chart, specify: ### Chart [N]: [Chart ...