When I worked at Best Buy, one of the senior developers put together some pretty cool dashboards with Zing Charts: http://www.zingchart.com/
We had several charts that kept track of all the agile stats like burn rate, tasks, outstanding defects, and sprint progress. He whipped it together in about a day since it was done with Javascript and JSON. All he did was have people update their individual JSON files on the network before they left for the day and he'd run a batch job at night that pulled in the new data and then updated the charts.
It was pretty easy to manage and we had a 72" monitor hooked into the network so every morning you got an update on how things were going. The "business types" liked it because they could just glance as they were strolling past our area and see how horrible errrrrrrrrrrrr great our progress was on the project.
We had several charts that kept track of all the agile stats like burn rate, tasks, outstanding defects, and sprint progress. He whipped it together in about a day since it was done with Javascript and JSON. All he did was have people update their individual JSON files on the network before they left for the day and he'd run a batch job at night that pulled in the new data and then updated the charts.
It was pretty easy to manage and we had a 72" monitor hooked into the network so every morning you got an update on how things were going. The "business types" liked it because they could just glance as they were strolling past our area and see how horrible errrrrrrrrrrrr great our progress was on the project.