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Project dashboard

One Project Management Dashboard for Everything You Own

Stop opening six projects to answer one question. See progress, what is late, who is loaded, and what it is costing, on a single screen you arrange yourself.

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What is a project management dashboard?

A project management dashboard is a single screen that answers the questions you would otherwise ask in a status meeting: what is on track, what is late, who is overloaded, and what has been spent. Orangescrum gives every person a dashboard built from a set of widgets they can show, hide, and reorder, with the layout starting from a sensible default for their role and saved for next time.

The problem

Why status takes so long to find

The answer is spread across projects
Getting one number means opening every project and adding up.
Widgets that already read across every project.
Reports are built by hand
Somebody rebuilds the same slide every week from the same data.
A live view that reads from the work itself.
Everyone needs a different view
A developer, a delivery lead, and a director do not want the same screen.
Different defaults by role, then hide what you do not want.
What you get

The answer on one screen

Grouped the way the dashboard is used: making it yours, the portfolio widgets, the money and capacity ones, your own work, the per project view, and the reporting behind it.

01Your layout

  • A starting point per role

    Admins and members open different default arrangements, so nobody starts from an empty screen.

  • Drag widgets into order

    Pick a widget up by its handle and drop it where you want it.

  • Show or hide any widget

    Turn individual widgets on and off, with select all, select none, and reset to default.

  • It remembers you

    Order and visibility are saved per person per workspace, so your screen is still yours next time.

  • A responsive grid

    Widgets take a fixed share of a twelve column grid and reflow on smaller screens.

  • Filter inside a widget

    Individual widgets carry their own searchable filters for project, programme, milestone, manager, status, role, person, and date range.

  • Refresh on demand

    Reload every widget at once without reloading the page. Available in Cloud.

  • It updates live

    Task and time log changes push to the dashboard as they happen. Available in Cloud.

02Portfolio

  • Four headline numbers

    Projects, tasks, resources, and time spent, each showing completed against total and the month on month trend.

  • Project summary

    A table of projects with owner, dates, status, and progress, filtered by programme, project, manager, or status.

  • Overall project progress

    A donut splitting projects into completed, on track, delayed, and at risk.

  • Programme summary

    The same table and donut one level up, for programmes rather than projects.

  • Milestone summary

    A milestone table and progress donut, filtered by project, milestone, or status.

  • Top five projects

    The five projects worth looking at first, without opening anything.

  • Active against completed

    How much of the portfolio is still running and how much has landed.

  • Clients

    A client chart for teams whose portfolio is organised by who it is for.

03Money

  • Budget and cost report

    A per project table of budget against actual cost, filtered to the project you care about.

  • Budget against cost

    The same comparison as a chart, for the version of the question a director asks.

  • Project cost report

    A full width breakdown of what a project has cost, built from logged hours and your rates.

  • Resource cost report

    The same figure per person, so you can see where the cost actually sits.

04Capacity

  • Resource utilisation

    How much of the team's available time is being used, on the same screen as delivery.

  • Workload summary

    What the team is carrying across a date range and a project.

  • Storage

    Total storage used and a breakdown by project, so a limit is never a surprise.

05Mine

  • My tasks

    Everything assigned to you, across every project, without checking each board.

  • My overdue

    Late work surfaces on its own instead of waiting to be found.

  • Overdue and upcoming

    A tabbed list of what is already late and what is about to be.

  • My progress

    A gauge of how much of your own work is done.

  • My hours

    The time you have logged, next to the work it was logged against.

  • Time log chart

    Hours by period, switchable between this week, last week, this month, and last month.

  • Task status and task types

    Two donuts breaking your work down by status and by type.

  • Activity feed

    What changed recently on the work you are involved in.

  • Bookmarks

    Your saved links on the dashboard, managed and reordered from their own page.

06Per project

  • Its own overview

    Every project has a status pie, time worked, its people, files, task types, to dos, groups, and recent activity.

  • Cost on the overview

    The RAG cost report and resource cost report sit on the project overview itself.

  • Project notes

    A place on the overview for the notes about the project that are not tasks.

07Deeper

  • Embedded BI dashboards

    Apache Superset dashboards are embedded in the product, scoped to the project you are in, with single sign-on handled for you.

  • Build a chart from your data

    A query driven chart builder for questions the standard widgets do not answer. Available in Self-Hosted.

  • The full report set

    Task analysis, time and resource, agile, and other reports sit behind the dashboard, each with CSV or PDF export.

  • Widgets follow permissions

    What a widget shows is worked out from your role before the screen is drawn, so a person never sees a number they are not allowed.

How it works

How to set one up

1
Open it
The dashboard works from day one, with a default layout picked for your role.
2
Hide the noise
Turn off the widgets that do not apply to you, and keep the handful that do.
3
Arrange it
Drag the widgets that answer your question to the top.
4
Filter it
Point the widgets at the project, programme, or date range you actually care about.
Who it's for

A different view for each role

Team members
What is mine, and what is due next.
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Delivery managers
What is slipping and who is overloaded.
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Leadership
Portfolio health and spend without a status call.
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Availability

Which edition includes what

Orangescrum runs as managed cloud, self-hosted on your own servers, or as the open-source Community Edition. Here is exactly what each one includes.
The personal dashboard is in every edition. Cost, workload, and BI widgets are tier gated.
CapabilityCloudManaged SaaSSelf-HostedOn-premise / private cloudOpen SourceCommunity Edition
Personal dashboard with widgets
Drag to reorder, show and hide
Project, milestone, and task widgets
Per project overview
Programme summary widgetsPremium
Budget, cost, and workload widgetsPro
Per widget filters
Live refresh as work changes
Embedded Superset BI dashboardsPremium
Query driven chart builder
Frequently asked questions

Project dashboard FAQ

What does the dashboard show?

A widget set covering headline counts for projects, tasks, resources and time, project, programme and milestone summaries with progress donuts, budget and cost, resource utilisation and workload, storage, and your own tasks, overdue work, hours, and activity.

Does everyone get their own dashboard?

Yes. Every person has their own dashboard, and the layout they arrange is saved for them. That is available in every edition, including the free Community Edition.

Can I choose which widgets appear?

Yes. Open the customise panel, turn individual widgets on or off, or use select all, select none, and reset to go back to the default for your role. Then drag the ones you kept into the order you want.

Can I point a widget at one project?

Yes. Widgets carry their own filters for project, programme, milestone, manager, status, role, person, and date range, so two people can read the same widget about different work.

Does the data update automatically?

Widgets read from the actual tasks, time logs, and costs, so they reflect the current state rather than the last time somebody updated a report. In Cloud the dashboard also refreshes itself as tasks and time logs change, and has a refresh button.

Will people see numbers they should not?

No. What each widget may show is worked out from that person's role before the page is drawn, so cost and resource widgets simply do not appear for people without the permission.

Can I build my own charts?

The dashboard is a set of widgets you choose, arrange, and filter, rather than a chart authoring tool. For your own charts, Cloud Premium and Self-Hosted embed Apache Superset dashboards inside the product, and Self-Hosted also includes a query driven chart builder.

Is there a dashboard in the open source edition?

Yes. The Community Edition has the same personal dashboard with drag to reorder and show or hide, covering project, milestone, task, time, storage, and activity widgets. Cost, programme, workload, and BI widgets are not included.

Can I export what is on a dashboard?

The reports behind the dashboard export to CSV or PDF in Cloud and Self-Hosted, which is the route to take when somebody needs the numbers in a spreadsheet or a deck.

Answer the status question in one screen

The personal dashboard is in every edition, including the free Community Edition.