Workspace Dashboard

Your workspace dashboard is the central hub where you manage all projects and monitor overall team productivity. This is your command center for navigating between projects, viewing aggregated statistics, and keeping track of what matters across your entire organization.

The Problem This Solves

Managing multiple projects simultaneously often means switching between different tools, losing context, and spending more time navigating than actually working. The Workspace Dashboard brings everything together in one place, giving you a bird's-eye view of all your projects while maintaining quick access to detailed project information.

What You Are Looking At

When you open GitScrum Studio, the Workspace Dashboard is your starting point. The interface displays a header showing your workspace name and a row of tabs that let you switch between different views of your data. Below that, you find filters and search functionality, followed by the main content area that changes based on your selected tab.

The dashboard header includes a settings button that takes you to workspace configuration, where Agency Owners and Managers can customize workspace-wide settings like work schedules, branding, and invoice defaults.

Project List Tab

The Project List tab displays all projects in your workspace as a grid of project cards. Each card shows essential information at a glance: the project name, visibility status (private or public), current project status, progress percentage, task statistics, team member avatars, and creation date.

The progress bar on each card uses color coding to indicate project health. Cards show three key metrics: total tasks, tasks in progress, and completed tasks. This lets you quickly identify which projects need attention without clicking into each one individually.

Clicking any project card opens that project in a new tab, taking you directly to the Kanban board view. The project list supports pagination, loading projects in batches of 50 with a "Load More" button appearing when you have additional projects to view.

Agency Owners, Managers, and Developers can create new projects using the "New Project" button in the header. When clicked, a modal appears where you can specify the project name, description, select a template, and configure initial settings. See Create Project Modal for detailed instructions.

Filtering and Search:

The filter bar shows workspace-level statistics including total project count and aggregated metrics for tasks, sprints, user stories, and team members. You can filter projects by status using the filter dropdown, which displays both default and custom status options configured in your workspace.

The search input lets you find projects by name. Type your search term and results update automatically as you type, with a slight delay to prevent excessive requests while you are still typing.

Stats by Project Tab

The Stats by Project tab provides comparative analytics across all your projects in one view. Instead of opening each project individually to check performance metrics, this tab aggregates key statistics and presents them side by side.

You see metrics broken down by project including task completion rates, velocity trends, and team distribution. This view is particularly useful for Managers and Agency Owners who need to report on overall workspace performance or identify which projects might need resource reallocation.

The comparative view helps you spot patterns that might not be obvious when looking at projects individually. For example, you might notice that projects with similar team sizes have vastly different completion rates, suggesting process differences worth investigating.

Calendar Tab

The Calendar tab displays all tasks and milestones from across your workspace in a unified calendar view. This gives you a time-based perspective on work distribution, helping you identify periods of high activity or potential scheduling conflicts.

Tasks appear on their due dates, with visual indicators showing which project they belong to. You can navigate between months and click on any task to open its details. This view is especially valuable for resource planning and ensuring deadlines do not cluster in ways that create team burnout.

This feature is available on Pro plans. If you are on a Free plan, you will see a Pro badge on the tab and clicking it will display upgrade information.

Pulse Tab

The Pulse tab (also called Manager Overview) provides real-time workspace productivity metrics and trends. This is your executive dashboard for understanding how work flows through your organization over time.

You see productivity trends, completion rates, and team activity patterns visualized through charts and key metrics. The Pulse view helps Agency Owners and Managers answer questions like "Are we completing more work this month than last month?" or "Which days of the week are most productive?"

This feature is available on Pro plans. If you are on a Free plan, you will see a Pro badge on the tab and clicking it will display upgrade information.

Health and Blockers Tab

The Health and Blockers tab surfaces potential risks across all projects before they become critical problems. Rather than manually checking each project for overdue tasks or stalled items, this view aggregates risk indicators workspace-wide.

You see metrics like overdue tasks, items that have not been updated recently, and projects with concerning velocity trends. This proactive view helps Managers identify and address issues early, before they impact delivery timelines.

This feature is available on Pro plans. If you are on a Free plan, you will see a Pro badge on the tab and clicking it will display upgrade information.

Project Age Report Tab

The Project Age report shows how long projects have been active and helps identify stale projects that might need attention or archiving. You see a breakdown of project ages with the ability to sort and filter by various criteria.

This report is useful for workspace cleanup initiatives and for understanding project lifecycle patterns in your organization. You might discover that certain types of projects consistently take longer than expected, informing future estimation.

Cumulative Flow Tab

The Cumulative Flow tab displays a diagram showing how work items move through your workflow stages over time. This visualization helps you identify bottlenecks and understand work-in-progress trends across your entire workspace.

The stacked area chart shows each workflow stage as a band, with the vertical thickness indicating how many items are in that stage at any point in time. Healthy workflows show relatively consistent band widths, while bottlenecks appear as bulges where items accumulate.

Weekly Activity Tab

The Weekly Activity tab shows team engagement patterns throughout the week. You see which days have the most task updates, completions, and other activities, helping you understand your team's natural work rhythms.

This information can guide decisions about when to schedule meetings, set deadlines, or plan deployments. If most task completions happen on Thursdays, you might avoid scheduling major reviews on Fridays when people are wrapping up for the week.

Pro Tips (Once You Are Comfortable)

• Time-saver: Use the keyboard shortcut Cmd+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows) to open Quick Search from anywhere in the workspace and jump directly to any project, task, or feature.

• Did you know? Clicking the workspace name in the header while on any project page takes you back to this dashboard instantly.

• Common mistake: Forgetting to check the Health tab regularly. Setting a weekly reminder to review blockers helps catch problems before they escalate.

• Power move: Use the Stats by Project tab during sprint planning to compare velocity across projects and make data-driven decisions about resource allocation.

Your First Win

Let us get you a quick success. Here is something easy to try right now:

1. Look at your Project List and identify the project card with the lowest progress percentage
2. Note the task statistics on that card
3. Click the card to open the project
4. Check if there are tasks stuck in a particular column
5. Navigate back to the dashboard using the workspace link in the breadcrumb

If you completed these steps, congratulations! You just used the dashboard to identify and investigate a potentially struggling project. That is the core workflow for workspace-level project monitoring.

When Things Do Not Go As Expected

"I do not see the New Project button" This usually means your role does not have permission to create projects. Only Agency Owners, Managers, and Developers can create new projects. Contact your workspace administrator if you need this permission.

"Some tabs show a Pro badge" These are premium features available on Pro plans. Clicking them will show you what the feature offers and how to upgrade. The core functionality (Project List, Stats by Project, and Report tabs) is available on all plans.

"My project count seems wrong" The project list loads in batches. Scroll down and click "Load More" to see additional projects. If you still do not see a project you expect, try clearing any active filters using the filter button.

How to Report a Problem or Request a Feature

Your feedback matters. Here is how to share it:

If you encounter unexpected behavior or have ideas for improving the Workspace Dashboard, you can submit a support ticket directly through GitScrum Studio. In the Sidebar, click on Support Tickets and open a ticket describing what you experienced or what you would like to see. The more detail you provide about what you expected versus what happened, the faster the team can help.