Project Dashboard
Manage your projects with interactive Kanban boards, track tasks, and visualize your workflow from start to finish.
How the Project Dashboard Works
The Project Dashboard is a powerful Kanban-style tool designed to help individuals and teams visualize their workflow and manage projects from start to finish. By organizing tasks into columns representing different stages of progress (e.g., "To Do," "In Progress," "Done"), you can get a clear, high-level overview of your entire project at a glance. All data is stored locally in your browser, ensuring your project information remains private.
Here’s how to effectively use the Project Dashboard:
- Create a Project: Start by clicking "New Project." Give your project a name and choose a color to easily distinguish it from others.
- Navigate Between Projects: Use the navigation arrows at the top to switch between your different projects.
- Add Tasks: Within a project, click the "+" button in any column to add a new task. Assign a title, an optional assignee, a priority, and a due date.
- Move Tasks Across the Board: As you work on tasks, use the arrow buttons on each task card to move it from one column to the next (e.g., from "To Do" to "In Progress"). This visual movement provides a satisfying sense of progress.
- Monitor Progress: The progress bar at the top of each project gives you an instant summary of how close you are to completion, based on the number of tasks in the "Done" column.
This Kanban approach is used by top development and project management teams worldwide to improve efficiency, identify bottlenecks, and keep everyone aligned on project status.
Tips for Effective Project Management
1. Limit Work in Progress (WIP)
A key principle of Kanban is to limit the number of tasks in the "In Progress" column. This prevents multitasking and helps you focus on completing tasks before starting new ones. Consider setting a personal rule to have no more than 2-3 tasks in progress at any one time.
2. Keep Tasks Small and Actionable
Break down large, complex goals into smaller, more manageable tasks. A task like "Build website" is too big. Instead, create smaller tasks like "Design homepage," "Develop contact form," and "Write 'About Us' copy." This makes progress easier to see and momentum easier to build.
3. Use the 'Review' Column for Quality Assurance
The "Review" column is perfect for tasks that need a second pair of eyes. This could be a colleague reviewing your work, a client providing feedback, or even just you taking a final look at a task a day after you thought it was "done." This step helps improve the quality of your output.
4. Hold a Weekly Board Review
Set aside time each week to review your project dashboard. This is an opportunity to move completed tasks to "Done," reprioritize the "To Do" list, and identify any tasks that are stuck in the "In Progress" column for too long (bottlenecks).
Project Management Glossary
Kanban Board
A visual project management tool used to manage workflow. It uses columns to represent stages of a process and cards to represent tasks, which move from left to right as they progress.
Task
A single, discrete unit of work to be completed.
Work in Progress (WIP)
The set of tasks that have been started but are not yet finished. Limiting WIP is a core concept in Kanban methodology to improve focus and efficiency.