Timeline & reporting

Every project has three views alongside its summary. They answer different questions, and it is worth knowing which is which.

Timeline#

Timeline lays the project's phases and tasks against dates: planned start and deadline versus what actually happened. Use it to answer are we where we said we would be?

Slippage shows up as the drift between a phase's planned window and its real one. Because phases only start when the previous gate passes, a late gate visibly pushes everything downstream — which is usually the conversation worth having.

Report#

Report is the status read, ordered by who is asking. It opens with a verdict — on track, at risk, off track, or complete — the gate that verdict grades, and a forecast finish date from the velocity actually achieved. Under that sit four headline figures, the phase spine, and needs a decision: the gate criteria still unmet, high-priority work nobody owns, and anything blocked or overdue.

A sponsor can stop there and still know where the project stands and what is being asked of them.

Below the summary comes the weekly digest, and below that the charts, each with the finding it demonstrates stated above it: delivery pace against the deadline, estimate accuracy per phase, the priority mix, and who has closed the work. Last are the tasks that ran furthest over their estimate.

Activity#

Activity is the project's history — comments and changes in chronological order, across the project, its phases and its tasks. Use it to reconstruct when did we know this?

AI weekly digest#

The Report page has its own write-up, aimed at the team rather than at stakeholders. Pick a period, press Generate, and you get:

• What changed — progress made over the period.
• What's blocked — what is stuck or waiting, and on whom.
• What needs attention — what to act on next.

On the Report page the digest is prose only — the figures it was written from are already above it, in the headline figures and the phase spine, so it does not repeat them. Generated anywhere else it carries those counts itself: tasks completed in the period, overdue, blocked, and how many phases are off their gate readiness mark.

Getting the same data out#

Everything these views draw is available through the REST API — projects with their phases and tasks, and per-phase task lists. If you need a chart cadence. does not draw, that is the route.