Mermaid Charts for Confluence Dashboards: Pie & XY in One Post
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The quarterly review loads a 14-tab spreadsheet to answer one question — "where do we actually spend our engineering time?" — because the wiki charts are stale screenshots from last quarter and the numbers table nobody reads. A dashboard is not a spreadsheet: it is the two charts that answer the two questions people keep asking.
Quick answer: build dashboard charts in Confluence with Mermaid pie and xychart-beta charts, rendered by Mermaid Plus for Confluence. Pie for shares, XY for trends — both as editable text that refreshes like code. This post gives you three copy-paste examples: an effort-share pie, a weekly trend XY, and a dual-series release dashboard.