{"id":"data2-ops-dashboard-slack-post-vp","audience":"operations","category":"data","track":"data","technique":"format","level":"intermediate","title":"Turn an ops dashboard into a three-bullet Slack post","free":false,"task":"Your VP of Operations, Dev Kapoor, wants Monday's dashboard as a Slack post. Write plain text under 75 words: a first line 'Ops, Mon Nov 3:' then exactly 3 bullets starting with '-'. Bullet 1 is the one number that needs action, bullet 2 the biggest improvement, and bullet 3 one thing to ignore until the data is fixed.","materialLabel":"Dashboard values (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Operations dashboard - week ending Nov 2 (Larchmont Logistics)\n\nOrders backlog: 1,840 orders waiting more than 48 hours (last week: 920). Target: under 1,000.\nOn-time delivery: 95.1% (last week 93.4%; target 95%).\nWarehouse pick accuracy: 99.2% (last week 99.1%).\nDock turnaround: 38 minutes (last week 52 minutes).\nOvertime hours: 410 (last week 380).\nInventory accuracy: shows 61% this week vs 97% last week.\n  Note from the data team: the inventory count feed broke Wednesday; the 61% is an artifact of the missing feed and will be re-run Tuesday.\n\nFacts about Dev:\n- Reads Slack on his phone.\n- Wants numbers, not adjectives.","rules":[{"type":"maxBullets","max":3},{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxWords","max":75}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Treating all metrics equally","why":"The AI summarizes every KPI in a paragraph.","fix":"Add: \"3 bullets: action needed, best improvement, ignore for now.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Missing the broken feed","why":"The AI reports 61% inventory accuracy as a crisis.","fix":"Add: \"Ignore inventory accuracy: the feed broke, re-run Tuesday.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Wrong first line","why":"The AI opens with a greeting or heading.","fix":"Add: \"Line 1 exactly: Ops, Mon Nov 3:\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Leaving the format to chance","why":"The AI picks its own length and layout unless told the exact shape.","fix":"Add: \"At most 3 bullets. Plain text, no bold or headings.\"","checks":["maxBullets","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":"Names the reader","patterns":["dev","vp"]},{"label":"Sets the three bullets","patterns":["3 bullets","action needed","best improvement","ignore"]},{"label":"Names the backlog","patterns":["backlog","1,?840"]},{"label":"Handles the broken metric","patterns":["feed","inventory accuracy"]},{"label":"Fixes the first line","patterns":["ops, mon nov 3","exactly"]}],"hint":"A good dashboard post decides what the reader should act on, praise and ignore. Say all three.","mission":"Write a Slack summary of this dashboard.","musts":["First line and 3 bullets","Backlog as the action","Ignore the broken feed"],"rubricLabels":["The first line is exactly 'Ops, Mon Nov 3:' and bullet 1 flags the order backlog of 1,840 orders waiting over 48 hours, double last week's 920 and over the target of 1,000","Bullet 2 names the dock turnaround improvement from 52 to 38 minutes (or on-time delivery reaching 95.1%) as the biggest improvement","Bullet 3 says to ignore the inventory accuracy 61% because the feed broke and will be re-run Tuesday, and there are exactly 3 bullets"]}