bkjohn2018 Governance Dashboard Content Model
When to Use
- Building governance, control, risk, or audit dashboards.
- Mapping business objects before designing UI or APIs.
- Turning workflow concepts into dashboard-ready entities and states.
Core Object Types
- Policy
- Standard
- Control
- Certification / attestation
- Evidence item
- Risk owner
- Exception / issue
- Workflow request / approval
- Data asset / report / metric
- Ledger or operational artifact when finance traceability is required
Workflow
- Identify the core entities shown on the page.
- Define each object’s lifecycle states, owners, and timestamps.
- Map parent-child relationships and traceability paths.
- Separate summary entities from drill-down entities.
- Define which counts, statuses, and trends each object should expose.
Output Template
# Dashboard Content Model
## Core entities
| Entity | Purpose | Owner | Key statuses |
|---|---|---|---|
## Relationships
- Request -> Approval
- Control -> Evidence
- Issue -> Owner
- Metric -> Data asset
## Traceability paths
- Business event -> Operational data -> Control -> Approval -> Ledger -> Analytics
## Dashboard exposure
| Entity | Card metric | Drill page | Key actions |
|---|---|---|---|
Quality Checklist
- Entity names match governed business terminology.
- Lifecycle states are explicit and mutually understandable.
- Traceability paths are complete enough for drill-down design.
- Summary counts are backed by drillable object models.