The BI promise: give everyone a dashboard, end the ticket queue. The correction: without a governed semantic layer, self-serve produces conflicting metrics and more tickets — the bottleneck moves from queries to reconciliation.
— A thread on why self-serve fails without defined metrics underneath.
— A piece on the semantic layer as the prerequisite, not the dashboard tool.
— A teardown of three teams reporting three different revenue numbers from one BI tool.
— A checklist for what to govern before you roll out self-serve.
Skip if your metrics are already centrally defined. Essential if you're about to buy BI seats to "fix" the data-request backlog.
That's the stack for this week. Forward to a teammate.
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Myth: Self-serve dashboards free you from the data team
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