With Teamspaces, you can mirror your real-world teams of any kind and track work separately from a project. Link projects, see your team’s work automatically filtered across projects, and house your team’s knowledge separate from anything else in Plane.
Teamspaces brings together people and projects in a neat space tucked away from all else in Plane, offering you an overview of your teams’ work. Track work items across projects, manage multiple cycles, share views and pages, and chat with team members—all without jumping around from one screen to another.
When you click on a Team, you’ll see a comprehensive dashboard that gives you visibility into all activities across your team’s projects. The Jump in section serves as your navigation hub, providing quick access to your team’s Projects, Work items, Cycles, Views and Pages.
The Projects screen displays all projects associated with your team.Here’s what you can do:
See each project’s current state.
You need to turn on Project States for the projects to be displayed grouped by their State. Otherwise, the projects will appear as cards in a Gallery view.
Use Filters to narrow down projects based on specific criteria.
Customize the display layout to your preference using the Display dropdown.
Navigate directly to a project’s Work items screen by clicking on any project.
This section provides a visual representation and summary of the team’s current workload and performance, helping managers track progress effectively. It highlights overdue work items, incomplete tasks, and pending actions, ensuring teams stay on top of their responsibilities.Here’s a breakdown of its components:
Overdue Work items A red-highlighted banner at the top shows the count of overdue work items, emphasizing the urgency to address them. This feature encourages timely action to meet deadlines and reduce project delays.
Progress chart A bar chart displays the progress of work items categorized by selected criteria, such as Priority, Due Date, or Start Date. Users can toggle between these views using the dropdown menu to focus on specific aspects of the team’s work. Each bar is segmented to show the percentage of completed and pending work items, offering a quick comparison.
Summary of Team’s Work items A summary panel on the right provides a detailed breakdown of work item states:
Displays counts for Pending and Completed work items.
Includes additional states like Backlog and Cancelled, ensuring all work items are accounted for.
It also highlights work items without due dates, helping team leads prioritize and assign deadlines.
The Relations feature allows team members to track dependencies between work items. It has two main tabs: Blocking and Blocked.Blocking This tab displays work items that are currently blocking other tasks, potentially causing delays in your team’s workflow.Blocked This tab would display work items that are blocked by others. It helps in identifying bottlenecks and ensuring timely resolution to keep tasks moving.
This section provides a high-level view of tasks across multiple projects or teams. It visualizes work items in a treemap format, where each section represents a project, and the size of each block is proportional to the number of work items.You can group the stats based on filters like Projects, Members, State Groups, Dependency, and Due By to focus on specific areas of work.A legend at the bottom categorizes work items by their state or priority, making it easier to understand their progress.This feature helps you quickly assess the distribution of workload, identify where resources are focused, and monitor the health of ongoing efforts.
The Info tab on the right serves as a centralized space to view key details and linked entities.
Properties Displays primary details about the entity. For example, the lead or owner of the team is listed here.
Linked entities Provides a breakdown of related elements associated with the entity, including number of projects, work items, cycles, views, and pages.
Team’s entities Displays the count of views and pages created at the team level.
The Members tab displays all members currently associated with the team. Clicking the Add new member button allows you to onboard teammates. You can remove team members through the menu (represented by the three dots) next to the member name.
Access the activity log for a history of changes made to the team, ensuring transparency and accountability. Teams is your answer to scattered collaboration. It’s where your team members, their projects, and their work come together in perfect harmony. No more switching between multiple views or losing track of who’s doing what – everything your team needs is right here in one organized space.