Feature
A board is honest about cards and silent about whether the project is in trouble.
Deck will tell you what is in progress. It will not tell you that the milestone moved, that the budget is two thirds spent at the halfway mark, or that nobody has agreed which phase the project is in.
How it works
A project structure on top of the team that owns it.
A project team is a Nextcloud Team with project surfaces added. The board stays in Deck, the documents stay in Files, and the missing piece, a readable statement of where the project stands, goes on the team page.
- Four phases across the top of the page, so everybody uses the same word for the same stage.
- The Project Compass, which names the next useful thing to do when a project is new or has drifted, rather than leaving a blank page.
- Milestones bound to Deck cards, so a milestone moves when the work moves and not when somebody remembers to update a slide.
- Budget and time per workstream, recorded where the work happens rather than in a separate spreadsheet.
- A health panel, reading the above and saying whether the project is within bounds now.
- Decisions in context, attached to the project that took them, with the reason recorded.
What stays in Deck, and who this is for
What stays where it is
- Deck keeps every card. TeamHub reads across the boards and writes changes back. Nothing is copied, and switching TeamHub off leaves Deck untouched.
- Files keeps the documents, including whatever the project's contract and drawings live in.
- Calendar keeps the dates that are genuinely events rather than milestones.
Who benefits
- Project managers, who stop rebuilding the same status summary every week.
- Managers above them, who can read the state of several projects without calling anybody.
- The team, which gets one vocabulary for where the work has got to.
- Whoever answers the client, who can see the same picture the team sees.
The limits
What Projects is not.
- It is not a resource planner. No capacity model, no levelling and no allocation across projects.
- It is not a scheduler. No critical path, no dependency solver and no Gantt chart that recalculates.
- It is not an accounting system. Budget and time are recorded for the people running the project, and are not a substitute for finance.
- It does not replace OpenProject. Organisations already running OpenProject can connect it instead, and keep their projects where they are.
If your projects genuinely need dependency solving and capacity planning, TeamHub is the wrong shape and saying so now saves everybody a trial.
Community or licensed
Advanced Projects is a licensed module, as are the OpenProject integration and the compliance centre. A team home, messages, decisions, presence and the Deck integration are in the free base application.
Make the status visible.
Tell us how your projects are tracked today and what usually surfaces late.