“Perhaps what you measure is what you get. More
likely, what you measure is all you’ll get. What you
don’t (or can’t) measure is lost” – H. Thomas Johnson.
One my former project manager contacted me with an idea to compose a dashboard incrementing transparency of the monitoring of BI project progress, so to reflect is a brief and convenient form all ETL processes and their trends.
Another benefit of understanding what data where and at what cost is was loaded is an ability to reduce number of destructive for development process interruptions when supervisor collects progress updates from developers.
As dashboard tool was chosen Tableau as the company already has licenses and due to it amazing visualisation capabilities (got several really enjoyable hours developing the stuff!).
The deliverable (first version):