Projects and timeline

The Timeline screen shows projects and their phases as bars stretching across time.

Project, phase, work

Three levels, largest to smallest:

A project is the umbrella. Phases divide it into sequential chapters. Work is the concrete thing people do, and lives on the board.

Four project statuses

Status	Meaning
Planning	Not yet running
On track	Running, progress reasonable
At risk	Running, but behind plan
Done	Complete

"At risk" only helps if used early

A project first flagged at risk a week before its deadline is already beyond saving.

Flag it the first time you have doubts, not once you are certain it is late.

What a phase holds

Field	What it holds
Phase name	For instance "Preparation"
Start and end dates	Its span on the timeline
Progress	Percentage complete
Colour	Distinguishes phases visually
Order	Sets its position

Reading the timeline

Longer bars mean longer phases. Overlapping bars mean phases running concurrently.

The thing most worth watching is a phase whose progress lags far behind today's date marker — that is the earliest sign a project will slip.

People on a project

A project can carry a list of people involved. This differs from per-work assignment: the project's people list answers "who is involved", while work assignment answers "who is doing this particular thing".