Write the dictionary before you redraw the dashboard

Pretty charts cannot repair event names that mean three different things across three squads.

  • instrumentation
  • naming
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Application analytics work in Busan product teams often starts with a request for “better dashboards.” The faster fix is usually a shorter dictionary: object, action, context—owned in the same place engineering already reads.

Ban marketing adjectives inside event names. Prefer properties for plan, surface, and experiment so the base verb stays stable after a rebrand.

In baselines we routinely find twenty near-duplicates of the same click. Collapsing them beats adding another chart nobody trusts.

If renaming an event takes a week of archaeology, the dictionary—not the colour palette—is the problem.

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