Seven working statuses, not two
Planning, Backlog, Ready, In Progress, Waiting, Blocked, and Done. Waiting and Blocked say something different about a stalled project, so the status is worth reading.
Projects
The initiative, whole.
A project in HelixSync is more than a folder of tasks. It carries an owner, a department, a location, a date range, the gate it has reached, the risk you have assigned it, and progress calculated from the work beneath it.
One accountable owner Progress from real work Overdue made visible
Follow a project throughONE PROJECT, FROM PLANNING TO DONE
The initiative keeps its whole story.
Step through the three stages of a project record.
PROJECT RECORDEXAMPLE PROJECT
Created with an owner and a date rangeSimplified illustration · Sample data
Give the initiative its shape.
Name the project, set its owner, department, and location, and put start, end, and launch dates against it. It opens in Planning with nothing assumed about progress.
Track what is actually happening.
Progress is calculated from the work underneath the project, not typed in by hand. Move the project through its statuses as the situation changes — Ready, In Progress, Waiting, or Blocked.
Close it out once the work is done.
When every task that was not cancelled is complete, the project offers to finish. Until then it stays open, and an open project past its end date is flagged as overdue.
WHAT A PROJECT ACTUALLY HOLDS
Key Capabilities
Everything the project record keeps track of on your behalf.
A named owner on every project
Projects carry an owner alongside their department, so there is one person accountable rather than a team inbox.
Progress calculated, not claimed
The progress percentage comes from the work underneath the project. The projects list, the project header, and Pulse all show the same number.
Start, end, and launch dates
A project that is still open after its end date has passed is flagged as overdue. The status is left alone — the flag is a signal, not an automatic change.
A risk level you set
Mark a project Low, Medium, or High risk. It is your judgement, recorded next to the health HelixSync calculates rather than replaced by it.
Department, location, and rolled-up people
See which teams and which people the project actually reaches, rolled up from the work assigned inside it.
Discussion attached to the project
Project comments live on the project, so the reasoning behind a decision stays with the initiative rather than in a thread somewhere else.
A prompt when it is ready to finish
When every task that was not cancelled is complete, the project offers to close. Add one new task and the prompt turns itself off again.
One progress number, everywhere it appears.
The projects list, the project header, the overall progress bar, and the Pulse project card all read the same calculated progress percentage. A project cannot look 80% done on one screen and 40% done on another.
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