My Work
The dashboard you land on: the items that ask for you today in order, your open items by status, the approvals waiting on you, your timer and this week's time, the weeks still to put forward, the running sprints, your projects and the latest changes.
By the end of this page you will know what the dashboard gathers for you, how it decides what is pressing today, how to narrow it to one project, how to start and stop the timer from it, and what a client guest sees in its place.
Signing in opens My Work: one screen with your day across every project you can see. Nothing on it is its own record. Every figure comes from the same places the other pages read, the backlogs, the approvals inbox, the Time pages, the timesheets and the sprints, gathered once so you do not have to open each project to learn where you stand. The sidebar beside it holds the project selector, the workspace entries and your account menu; choosing a project swaps the menu for the project's own and Back to Dashboard brings you here again.
Before you begin
- Everyone who signs in lands here. A client guest sees a reduced page: the approvals that wait on their word and the projects they were invited to.
- The items, the time and the sprints are yours or your projects'; the recent activity needs the right to read the team's activity log, which every seeded staff role but the guest carries.
| What you see | Permission |
|---|---|
| Your items, focus, time and sprints | Any staff member; never a client guest |
| The approvals waiting on you | Anyone the requests name, guests included |
| The projects | The projects you may see |
| The recent activity | activity:read |
| Start or stop the timer | time-log:create on the item's project |
Read your day
The page opens with a greeting and five figures: your open items, how many of them are in progress, the requests awaiting your approval, your time this week, and the running sprints across your projects. Under them, a chip per open status counts your items in it: backlog, ready, in progress, in review and in QA.
Then the page splits in two. On the left, Focus today, the running sprints and the recent activity; on the right, what is waiting on you, your time and your projects.
Follow the focus list
Focus today lists the items that ask for you, most pressing first, up to eight of them, each with its reference, its title (a link to its flyout on the backlog), a badge saying why it is on the list, its status, its project and its due date. The reasons, in the order the list uses them:
- Overdue by N days: an item of yours, or one waiting for your review or your test, whose due date has passed. The longer overdue, the higher it sits.
- Due today.
- Waiting for your review: an item in review that names you as its reviewer.
- Waiting for your test: an item in QA that names you as its QA owner.
- In progress: an item of yours you have started.
- Due tomorrow or Due in N days: due within the next three days.
- Ready to start: an item of yours that is ready.
- On your plate: the rest of your open items.
Within a reason, the higher priority sits first. Due dates are compared as calendar days in your own timezone, so an item due today stays "due today" until your midnight, not the server's. An item that is done or cancelled never appears; one assigned to someone else appears only when it waits for your review or your test.
The same list for an agent
An agent working as you reads exactly this list, with the same reasons and the
same order, through get_my_dashboard, so what it picks up first is what you
would pick up first.
Run the timer from a focus row
When you may log time on the item's project, each focus row carries Start Timer. Press it and the clock runs on that item: the row turns to Stop Timer, the sidebar shows the running timer wherever you go, and Your time shows the item with the minutes so far. Stop Timer turns the stretch into a log on the item, dated today, of the development kind and billable; change it on the project's Time page if it was something else. One timer runs at a time; while one runs, the other rows offer no start.
Narrow to one project
The project picker beside the heading narrows every section but the recent activity to one project: the figures, the chips, the focus, the sprints, the time, the weeks to put forward and the projects list. The picked project lives in the page's address, so a link keeps it. Clear the picker to see every project again.
What the other cards hold
What a guest sees
A client guest lands on the same page with a short note in place of the figures: the approvals waiting on their word and the projects they were invited to, each a link to its overview. The items, the time, the sprints and the activity are the team's and stay out of sight.
Heimdall on this page
The page has no assist of its own. Ask Heimdall's panel what you should pick up first, why an item is on your focus list, or how your week is shaping up; it reads the same dashboard an agent reads and answers from it.
From the API and MCP
Me API
The dashboard in one payload under /v1/me/dashboard, narrowed to a project when asked.
get_my_dashboard
An agent reads the person's day in one call before it picks an item up.
list_my_work
The person's open items alone, paginated, for an agent that wants the list without the rest.
Permissions
| Action | Permission |
|---|---|
| Open the dashboard | Anyone who signs in |
| See your items, time and sprints | Any staff member; never a client guest |
| See the recent activity | activity:read |
| Start or stop the timer from a focus row | time-log:create on the item's project |
| Read the dashboard over the API or MCP | dashboard:read |
Frequently asked
An item I am working on is not in the focus list. Why? The list holds eight rows at most, most pressing first, and only items that are open and either assigned to you or waiting for your review or test. An item assigned to a colleague that you merely follow is not on your plate; find it on the project's backlog.
Why does the list say an item is overdue when its due date is today somewhere else? Due dates are days, compared in your own timezone. A colleague in another timezone may see the same item as due today while it is already yesterday for you.
Can I change the order? No. The order is the one the reasons above describe, so a person and an agent read the same list. Change the item itself: its due date, its priority or its status.
Why does the project picker not narrow the recent activity? The activity card reads the team's log across your projects; the project's own activity is on its pages and in the activity log, where a project filter exists.
Related
- Backlog: where the items live and where a focus row opens.
- Approvals: the inbox behind Waiting on you.
- Time tracking and Timesheets: the timer, the logs and the weeks to put forward.
- Sprints: the running sprints and their progress.
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