The second part of a two-part blog providing advice on how to partner with your IT colleagues when requesting, reviewing, and providing feedback on data downloads, reports, and dashboards.

Whether you are submitting a data or report request that will wait in a long queue or are in a small shop writing your own reports, thinking carefully about why you need a report and how it will be used will make sure you spend your information technology colleagues and your own time as wisely as possible.