You can use dashboards to keep team members informed about
project status and to encourage collaboration.
About this task
Customizable dashboards can provide live status on the latest
design activities. Dashboards provide team members with a web-based
view of the project status, which they can use to monitor and collaborate
on the project. Dashboards are useful for publishing project information,
but also for gathering external information that relates to the project.
There
are two kinds of dashboards: personal dashboards and project dashboards.
You can use dashboards in several ways, including these:
- Team leads can use dashboard widgets and queries to determine
the status of the application being developed.
- Project teams can use dashboard pages to communicate key information
about a design.
- Project leads can track project conditions and trends at a glance.
- Team leads can track team progress and balance workload.
- Developers can track their workload and work item status.
You can customize your dashboards by adding widgets from
any of the applications in a lifecycle project. When you add
Design
Management widgets,
you can limit the scope of the widgets to specific projects or to
specific contexts. The following design-specific widgets are available
for you to add to dashboards:
- Most Comments - Displays a list of the design artifacts that have
received the most comments during the specified date range.
- Query - Displays a list of queries that are available for the
project.
- Recent Comments - Displays a list of comments posted during the
specified date range.
- Recent Links - Displays a list of links that were created during
the specified date range. You can also specify the types of links
you want to include in the list.
- Reviews - Displays a list of the reviews that meet the specified
filtering criteria.
What to do next
For more information about creating, updating, and managing
dashboards, see Managing dashboards in the Rational® solution for Collaborative
Lifecycle Management Information
Center.