IT Infrastructure Upgrade Project Dashboard
This is a practical guide to building a project dashboard for an it infrastructure upgrade project — a visual summary of the project’s key metrics and status, adapted to the realities of refreshing servers, storage and core IT infrastructure.
What a Project Dashboard is
A project dashboard is a visual summary of the project’s key metrics and status. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Project Dashboard. On an it infrastructure upgrade project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for an IT Infrastructure Upgrade project
IT Infrastructure Upgrade projects live or die on refreshing servers, storage and core IT infrastructure. A well-built project dashboard gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how it infrastructure upgrade projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Status indicators
- Schedule and cost KPIs
- Milestones
- Top risks/issues
IT Infrastructure Upgrade-specific considerations
Tailor the project dashboard to the risks that most often derail it infrastructure upgrade projects:
- Migration downtime
- Capacity planning
- Vendor and procurement delays
Example
On a real it infrastructure upgrade project, the project dashboard would be shaped by refreshing servers, storage and core IT infrastructure. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — migration downtime, capacity planning, vendor and procurement delays — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.