Most dashboards are created to keep the next layer
up of management happy, not to help manage the project.
For those who for tell them what they want to hear, or worse still tell them complete bollocks, managing the dashboard replaces managing the project. The over reliance is the assumption that they are the same thing...
Data, how many innovatitive ideas have you seen killed because all the i's couldn't be dotted and t's crossed without expending a significant amount or resource....