What sponsors misunderstand about readiness dashboards

Readiness dashboards should show coverage and feedback density, not stack-rank humans. When sponsors ask for rankings, we redirect to scenario coverage maps and mentor hours per cohort.

We publish limitation callouts beside each metric block. That practice came from legal and pedagogy review, not aesthetics.

Quarterly sponsor workshops walk through three dashboard traps we have seen in the wild: vanity completion percentages, latency disguised as productivity, and alert volume presented without context.

If a sponsor insists on a ranking view, we decline politely. The policy protects analysts and keeps our measurement story defensible.