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

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 views. Your focus moves its priority views to the front of the navigation rail, so the views you reach for most are first. Nothing is hidden or removed — the same views are all there, just reordered. Unified Today keeps the standard order.

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. Its sprint panel starts collapsed, so on a typical laptop screen the first several rows of cards are visible without scrolling.

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.

How the pulse measures schedule health

Schedule health is a count-based SPI: the tasks due by today that are done, divided by all the tasks due by today.

With an active baseline that has real schedule dates (captured after the schedule was first computed), “due by today” means the baseline’s finish dates. Work finished early still counts as done, so the ratio can go above 1.00.
With no baseline — or an active baseline captured before the schedule was ever computed, so it has no reliable finish dates to compare against — “due by today” means the current plan’s finish dates. Both counts come from the same tasks, so the ratio tops out at 1.00, and a task finished outside that window can’t hide a late one.
Unknown means nothing is due yet under whichever of those two references applies.

Phase rows are left out of the Late count and the no-baseline ratio. A phase’s status is rolled up from its children, so a phase whose children are all done never counts as late.

On a phone

In the Queue layout, each row shows the task name on its own line. The phase, status, duration and owner sit on a second line below it. A task with no owner says Unassigned. A task with no estimate shows —, except a milestone. The list leaves room at the bottom so the last row can scroll above the Add task button.

On the hosted read-only demo, the board shows no Add task button, lane +, or quick capture, because the demo would refuse the create. You can still drag cards; the board keeps each move on screen and tells you nothing was saved.

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

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.