Program Pulse
Turning data into a clear read on program health
I built Program Pulse to explore how I would turn program data into a clearer view of program health.
Bringing together pipeline, progression, risk, and performance signals in one place.
The dashboard isn't meant to reproduce the source data.
It's organized around the questions a program owner actually needs to answer:
- How much pipeline do we have?
- Where are we above or below expectations?
- Where is it progressing or getting stuck?
- What needs attention?
- Which regions, products, or industries are performing differently?
Start Here
I started with two spreadsheets, each telling a slightly different part of the story.
I brought them together and that created our sample data, our starting point.
The data isn't quite ready for a dashboard yet.
All the values and fields need to speak the same language.
Raw file
Cleaning log
Normalized output
Now that the data has been cleaned we can start designing a view that makes it easy to
understand how the program is performing.
That way, at a glance, we can readily see what's on track, what's falling
behind, and what needs attention.