We come to work on Friday and play catch up on all our work that's been on hold. In the afternoon, we keep waiting for word from the manager's meeting, but nothing is sent across. Finally, around 5 o'clock, Calvin stops by.

"You two are officially rock stars. Everyone loved what you did. There were some uncomfortable moments after seeing some of the data points visualized, but that was the point of this project. I just wanted to update you real quick that we'll have a meeting on Monday about phase two. Management has lots of ideas."

9 o'clock Monday morning, we find ourselves in a conference room with Calvin, Sara, and a couple of other VPs and managers. Calvin starts to speak, "Good morning. I'm glad everyone is here. This is an exploratory meeting about phase two, the management dashboard. There were a lot of ideas thrown out during the meeting on Friday, and we wanted to take the time to distill those ideas down into something actionable. That's also why I invited...