{"id":"data2-dashboard-metric-removal-keep-remove","audience":"managers","category":"decisions","track":"data","technique":"constraints","level":"intermediate","title":"Decide which dashboard metrics to remove using a two-part rule","free":false,"task":"Your team is cleaning up a cluttered dashboard. Write exactly 4 plain-text lines, one per metric, in the form 'Metric: Keep - reason' or 'Metric: Remove - reason', each reason under 12 words, under 70 words in all. Remove a metric only when it was used in 1 or fewer decisions last quarter AND its data quality is red. Otherwise keep it.","materialLabel":"Metric audit (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Dashboard audit - Maple Marketplace growth dashboard\n\nMetric | Decisions it informed last quarter | Data quality\nPage views | 0 | green\nTime on page | 0 | red (tracking broke in August)\nNPS | 3 | green\nBounce rate | 1 | red (definition changed twice)\n\nNotes:\n- \"Decisions it informed\" was counted from meeting notes by the PM.\n- Data quality is rated by data engineering: green = trusted, red = not trusted.\n- The dashboard has 14 tiles; the goal is to remove only the clearly unused or untrusted ones.\n- Page views is a metric the CEO likes to see.\n- A removed metric can be restored later if the data is fixed.","rules":[{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxWords","max":70}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Removing on one condition","why":"The AI removes page views because nobody used it.","fix":"Add: \"Remove only if used 1 or fewer times AND quality is red.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Keeping a red metric with 1 use","why":"The AI keeps bounce rate because it informed a decision.","fix":"Add: \"1 decision still counts as 1 or fewer.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Vague reasons","why":"The AI says 'not useful' or 'important'.","fix":"Add: \"Each reason has the numbers, like 0 decisions, red.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Leaving the format to chance","why":"The AI picks its own length and layout unless told the exact shape.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold or headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each part instead, for example \"each line under 15 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"States the rule","patterns":["1 or fewer","and","red"]},{"label":"Names the four metrics","patterns":["page views","time on page","nps","bounce rate"]},{"label":"Gives the line shape","patterns":["keep -","remove -"]},{"label":"Asks for reasons with numbers","patterns":["numbers","0 decisions"]},{"label":"Rules out extras","patterns":["no other text","exactly 4"]}],"hint":"A two-part rule needs both parts checked on every line. Quote the rule and the numbers.","mission":"Which metrics should we cut from the dashboard?","musts":["Four lines with Keep or Remove","Both conditions checked","Reasons with numbers"],"rubricLabels":["Time on page is Remove (0 decisions and red quality) and Bounce rate is Remove (1 decision and red quality)","Page views is Keep (0 decisions but green quality, so the rule's two conditions aren't both met) and NPS is Keep (3 decisions, green)","There are exactly 4 lines in the form 'Metric: Keep - reason' or 'Metric: Remove - reason', and no reason relies on the CEO liking page views"]}