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Dashboard

Control Everything on One Screen

The dashboard displays completed, updated, and newly created tasks, team workload, statuses, and priorities — all in one convenient view.

Built for

  • Managers
  • C-level
  • Team leads
  • Stakeholders
Dashboard · this sprint
Tasks done
342
Velocity
+18%
Active
12
At risk
3
Tasks delivered / week+24% MoM
Workload splitupdated just now
Design32%
Engineering41%
QA18%
Operations9%

By the numbers

15+

widget types

Easylim CRM

Real-time

updates without reload

customer data

1

screen = full project state

2025 survey

What's inside

Everything your team needs — in one window

Clear visualization helps make quick, informed decisions.

01

Capability 01

Task Statuses

Instantly see what’s done, in progress, or delayed.

Task Statuses
02

Capability 02

Team Workload

Track who’s overloaded and who can take on new tasks.

Team Workload
03

Capability 03

Priorities

Understand which tasks require attention first.

Priorities
04

Capability 04

Task Types

Analyze workflow performance by task type.

Task Types
How it works

Team Management

Easily track workloads and balance team resources.

  • Daily Meetings
  • Project Oversight
Team Management
How it works

Performance Evaluation

See who’s completing tasks and how, to make data-driven decisions.

  • Problem Detection
  • Priority Distribution
Performance Evaluation

Deep dive

How to build a dashboard that replaces your weekly status meeting

5 chapters

Dashboards die in two ways: they become a pretty picture nobody opens, or a wall of 30 widgets nobody can read. The difference between a working dashboard and a decorative one comes down to which questions it answers and whether anyone on the team actually looks at it on a Monday morning. Here's how to assemble a dashboard that saves you hours of syncs, plus when you genuinely don't need one and a single Kanban board would do the job.

01

Розділ

What a dashboard actually is and how it differs from a Kanban board

Kanban shows one project in detail: cards, columns, who's pulling what. A dashboard shows a cross-section across many projects at once: how many tasks closed this week across Acme and Stripe combined, who out of 12 people is overloaded, which deadlines are turning red.

That's the difference between a work surface and an instrument panel. A dashboard isn't for people pulling tasks — it's for people responsible for making sure tasks get pulled. Managers, leads, founders, heads of department: anyone who has 30 minutes in the morning to figure out where the fire is and go put it out.

That's why a dashboard isn't built from every metric in existence, but from 4-7 widgets that answer concrete questions: "what's at risk right now?", "who's overloaded?", "how many P0/P1 are in flight?". If a widget doesn't trigger an action, it's noise.

  • Kanban = one project's details. Dashboard = a cross-cut across all of them.
  • 4-7 widgets is the sweet spot. More than that and you scroll instead of acting.
  • Every widget = one manager question: risks, load, priorities, throughput.
dashboard · ops weekly
Tasks done
47+12%
On-track
83%
Overdue
5P0/P1
Workload by assignee
AK
90%
MR
60%
IL
45%
JD
30%
Activity
02

Розділ

How to build your first dashboard in Easylim in 15 minutes

Start from questions, not from widgets. Write down the 5 things you ask the team during your weekly sync: "anything at risk?", "who's burning out?", "how many P0 this week?", "how's release 4.2?", "did velocity drop?". Each question = one widget.

In Easylim, create a dashboard, click "+ Add widget" and pick a type: status counter (answers "how many at risk"), assignee breakdown ("who's overloaded"), priority filter ("P0/P1 count"), closed-per-week chart ("what's the pace").

Each widget can be narrowed with filters: a single project, only tasks tagged "release-4.2", only P0/P1, only overdue. This makes dashboards addressable — a "product team dashboard" and an "ops dashboard" look at the same data through different filters. Save dashboards by role, not as "one big board for everyone".

  • One widget = one manager question. No question, dead widget in a week.
  • Every widget has filters: project, tag, priority, assignee, due date.
  • Role-scoped dashboards ("for CEO", "for ops", "for QA lead") beat one giant shared one.
priority breakdown widget
all active53
P0
P1
P2
P3
P03
P18
P218
P324
3 × P0 — needs attention now
03

Розділ

15+ widget types and how to pick your 5

Easylim ships over 15 widget types: counters (how many tasks in status X), breakdowns (by assignee, project, priority, tag), charts (closed vs created over days/weeks), lists (top-N overdue, oldest cards in Backlog), progress bars (sprint completion %).

A solid manager starter pack is 5 widgets: 1) Overdue P0/P1 — a live list. 2) Workload by assignee — a bar breakdown of active tasks. 3) Closed this week vs last — a pace chart. 4) At risk — tasks due in the next 3 days. 5) Oldest card in Backlog — a sanity check on whether you're saying no or quietly hoarding.

Real-time updates aren't marketing fluff here: when a card moves on a Kanban board, the dashboard reflects it without a refresh. Which means you can park it on a second monitor and forget about it — when "At risk" jumps from 2 to 5, you see it within seconds, not 18 hours later at the morning sync.

  • 5 widgets cover 80% of manager questions: risk, load, pace, P0/P1, oldest backlog item.
  • Real-time = open once, leave running. No F5 needed.
  • If a widget hasn't changed in weeks, kill it — it's not giving you signal.
tasks closed / week

last 12 weeks

92+24% MoM

trending up
W1W4W8W12
04

Розділ

A real week with a dashboard — what it looks like

Monday 09:30. Open the dashboard. The "At risk" widget shows 5 — one more than Friday. Click through to the list. Two were forgotten (assignee was on holiday yesterday), one is a real blocker. You DM 3 people in Slack instead of scheduling a 30-minute sync for 12.

Tuesday-Wednesday. The "workload" widget shows Alex on 14 active tasks and Alina on 4. Rebalance via teamboard, load levels to 9/9. Dashboard reflects it immediately: "At risk" drops from 5 to 3.

Thursday. The "Closed this week" chart shows pace 18% below last week. Drill in and notice: 3 tasks in Backlog have been waiting on the client for 2 days. One email later, they unblock by Friday.

Friday 16:00. Instead of writing a 2-hour weekly status doc in Notion, screenshot the dashboard: "47 closed (+12% w/w), 0 overdue P0, 1 risk — fix on Monday". Done.

  • Dashboard replaces a 30-min sync for 12 people — you see risks before anyone surfaces them.
  • Dashboard screenshot = weekly stakeholder update without 2 hours of Notion writing.
  • Rebalance work → see the effect on the dashboard immediately (real-time).
workload · per person
Alex
14
Maria
12
Ivan
9
Julia
8
Pavlo
6
Olha
4
tasks active →
overload threshold
05

Розділ

When a dashboard is overkill — and what to use instead

If you have one project and a team of 5, a dashboard just duplicates what's already visible on the Kanban board. Every task fits on one screen, you can spot overload at a glance, risks are few. A Kanban board covers it.

Looking at people's workload (not tasks, but "who's on what") isn't a dashboard, it's teamboard: columns per person, cards per assignment. A dashboard tells you "Alex has 5 active", teamboard shows you which five.

Roadmap and dependencies (who's blocking whom, when release ships) is a Gantt chart, not a dashboard. Dashboards answer "what now", Gantt answers "what when". In larger orgs they coexist: ops manager lives on the dashboard, PMO lives on Gantt, tech lead lives on teamboard. All looking at the same Easylim task set.

  • 1 project + ≤5 people → Kanban; a dashboard duplicates it.
  • Who's working on what → teamboard, not a dashboard.
  • Dependencies and releases → Gantt; dashboard is "now", Gantt is "when".
manager's view vs doer's view
dashboard
manager · aggregate

47

done

5

risk

83%

on-track

+12%

velocity

doer · cards

Backlog

In progress

Done

same data · two altitudes

Quick takeaways

  • 1Dashboard = instrument panel for managers, not for individual contributors. 4-7 widgets is normal.
  • 2Each widget = one manager question. No question, no widget.
  • 3Real-time updates make it a working tool, not a report: open once, leave it open.
  • 4One project, ≤5 people → skip the dashboard, Kanban is enough.
Integrations

Plug in the tools you already use

This feature connects to the apps your team already lives in.

  • Slack
  • Google Sheets
  • Zapier
  • Loom
  • Gmail
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