View focus
If you wear two hats — running the waterfall program and facilitating the agile team — View focus lets you tell TruePPM which one you’re wearing right now. The app then leads with the surfaces that hat cares about. Nothing about your data, your permissions, or what your teammates see changes — it is purely how your view is arranged for you.
There are three focuses, and Unified Today is the default:
| Focus | Opens a project on | Leads the view bar with |
|---|---|---|
| Unified Today (default) | the Today split view | the standard order |
| PM | the Schedule | Schedule, then Grid |
| Scrum Master | the Board | Board, then Sprints |
What it does
Section titled “What it does”- Picks your default project view. Open any project and you land on the surface your focus cares about — the Schedule in PM focus, the Board in Scrum Master focus, the Today split view in Unified Today. You can still navigate anywhere; this only changes where you start.
- Emphasizes your view tabs. Your focus moves its priority tabs to the front of the project view bar, so the views you reach for most are first. Nothing is hidden or removed — the same tabs are all there, just reordered. Unified Today keeps the standard order.
The Today view
Section titled “The Today view”Unified Today focus opens each project on a purpose-built Today split screen — one place for the dual-hat PM + Scrum Master, so you stop bouncing between the Schedule and the Board:
- A schedule pulse on top — a compact, read-only strip showing the project’s schedule health (On track / At risk / Critical), its SPI, percent complete, the count of critical and late tasks, and the next milestone. It reads the same numbers as the project Overview, so the two never disagree.
- The active sprint’s progress, right on the pulse — the strip carries a small chip for the active sprint with a live progress bar. That progress is read straight from the board below (how many committed tasks are done), so the agile team’s delivery shows up on the schedule view without anyone copying a number across. The link is one-way: the board feeds the pulse, never the reverse, and nothing about the sprint can be edited from the pulse.
- The sprint board below — the full board you already use, unchanged, filling the rest of the screen.
Today is also a regular Today tab in the project view bar (in the Track group),
so anyone can open it — Unified Today focus just makes it your starting point. On a
project with no active sprint, the pulse simply reads “No active sprint” and the board
shows its own empty state.
What it does not do
Section titled “What it does not do”View focus is a presentation preference, not a role. Switching it never grants or removes any access — a project’s permissions are the same whether you’re in PM, Scrum Master, or Unified Today focus. It also changes nothing for anyone else: it’s your own view, invisible to your teammates.
Where to find it in the app
Section titled “Where to find it in the app”- The View focus control in the user menu (the avatar dropdown, top right) — switch focus in one click.
- The General preferences page (Settings → General,
/me/settings/general), alongside your Default landing screen and Customize views preferences.
Your choice is remembered and applies the next time you sign in, so the app always opens the way your current hat expects.