The Limitations of Dashboards
Dashboards have been the industry’s default for schedule reporting for decades. But here’s the reality no one talks about:
- You’re forced to interpret results yourself, jumping from chart to chart to piece together insights
- Dashboards never answer the exact question in your mind—at best, they get you in the ballpark
- Each user persona looking at the same dashboard sees it through a completely different lens:
- A scheduler reviewing a float histogram might immediately want to know, “Which activities have lost float since last update?”
- A project manager seeing a baseline variance chart might wonder, “Which delayed tasks will push our milestone?”
An owner or executive will have higher-level questions like, “How is overall project completion trending this quarter?”
The result?
- Users are left fishing for information, clicking through multiple views hoping to find answers
- Dashboards offer little to no drill-down—when you want details, you’re stuck exporting data or waiting on schedulers
- They’re expensive to build and maintain, and a nightmare to keep up to date across projects
Worst of all: one dashboard never fits all—different roles always want different views, meaning more dashboards, more cost, more chaos
IQ‑Insights: Natural Language Q&A is the Answer
IQ‑Insights changes everything by letting you ask your schedule questions directly, in plain language, and get instant answers—no dashboards, no clicks, no filters.
Imagine the questions you or your team might ask. Answering each manually in your dashboards could take multiple clicks and several minutes—every single time. With IQ, it’s instant:
Listing Activities or Dependencies Based on Criteria
Examples:
- “Show me all critical path activities.”
- “Show me activities with float changes in v2 compared to v1.”
“Show me activities with modified dependencies.”
Finding Changes Across Schedule Versions
Examples:
- Show me new critical path activities added in v2.
- “Show me delayed activities in v2.”
- Compare float values between v2 and v1.
Performing Aggregations
Examples:
- List top 10 activities with the highest planned cost (excluding LOE).
- Show me the total number of high-duration activities.
- Show me the top 5 activities with maximum lag.
Visualizing S-Curves & Histograms
Examples:
- Show me the activity actual cost histogram for v2.
- Show me the planned cost and actual cost S-curve for v2.
Visualizing Distributions and Trends
Examples:
- “Show me the distribution of activities by total float.”
- “Show me the trend of the count of activities on the critical path.”
- Show me the distribution of activities by predecessor count.
Why This Matters
Natural language Q&A turns schedule analysis from a static, time-consuming exercise into a dynamic, interactive conversation—so every team member, from scheduler to executive, can get exactly what they need, instantly.
With IQ-Insights:
- No more dashboards to build, share, or maintain
- No more manual drill-downs
- Just the answers you need, when you need them—every time
