type: task
id: MX_FAR_FUTURE_IDEAS-DASHBOARD_FACTORY-02
title: Prerequisite and dependency mapping
description: Map enabling prerequisites and dependencies for quality rubric + review
process to reduce future startup cost.
milestone: mx-far-future-ideas
owner: data-analysis-evangelist-ai-training
status: not_started
priority: p3
Prerequisite and dependency mapping
Problem
Future enhancements to the template production pipeline and quality review process depend on prerequisites that are not yet mapped — infrastructure capabilities, upstream Dataface engine features, third-party integrations, and organizational approvals. Without understanding these dependency chains in advance, future initiatives will repeatedly discover blockers at kickoff time, adding weeks of unplanned startup cost to each new effort.
Context
- Future work on repeatable production, review, and publishing of quickstarts and example dashboards will fail or stall if its hidden dependencies stay implicit, so this task should make the enabling conditions visible before anyone commits implementation effort.
- The goal is to understand which technical, product, operational, or partner-side prerequisites gate the most important next bets.
- Expected touchpoints include
examples/, review/publishing docs, production-line scripts, and dashboard content fixtures, adjacent workstream plans, external dependencies, and any architectural decisions that would constrain later options.
Possible Solutions
- A - Let each future initiative discover its own blockers as it starts: workable short term, but it creates repeated surprise and thrash.
- B - Recommended: produce a dependency map for the most important future directions: identify technical enablers, ownership gaps, sequencing constraints, and external dependencies up front.
- C - Treat everything as blocked until all possible prerequisites are solved: safe on paper, but too broad to be useful.
Plan
- List the future directions most likely to matter for repeatable production, review, and publishing of quickstarts and example dashboards and enumerate the dependencies each one appears to require.
- Group those dependencies into themes such as architecture, data/contracts, operations, design, or external approvals and identify likely owners.
- Highlight the prerequisites that unlock multiple future paths and the ones that are too speculative to prioritize yet.
- Turn the highest-value prerequisites into sequenced follow-up tasks or explicit decision points rather than leaving them buried in notes.
Implementation Progress
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Review Feedback
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