Guide

Project Overview

Understand your project dashboard and progress

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What you'll learn

  • Read the project progress bar and stage indicators
  • Understand the main planning stages
  • Use the next action card to know what to do next
  • View team members and project metadata

Overview

Every project in AlphaTales has an overview page that acts as your planning dashboard. It shows progress, highlights what to do next, and gives you quick access to the project workflow.

Project Header

The top of the overview page displays your project name, status, and overall progress. It also summarizes important project activity, such as completed planning steps and feature coverage.

Use the project settings entry point when you need to update project details, team access, or configuration.

Team And Metadata

The overview shows project team members and useful metadata such as app types, creation date, and recent activity.

Tip: If you cannot see team or settings controls, your role may not include permission to manage that project.

Next Action Card

The next action card recommends the best step based on your current project state. Common next steps include:

  1. Continue Project Breakdown - Complete the initial validation flow.
  2. Run Market Research - Generate market, risk, and opportunity context.
  3. Open Workflow Alignment - Answer workflow-shaping questions.
  4. Open Application Workflow - Review the flow map and detailed workflow nodes.
  5. Start Features - Generate groups, feature titles, and feature details.
  6. Open Technical Architecture - Plan architecture style, stack, and diagram.
  7. Generate Dev Pack - Package handoff material.

Click the action button to jump directly to the recommended module.

Modules And Artifacts

The overview helps you track both planning modules and handoff artifacts:

  • Research and workflow - Project Breakdown, Market Research, Workflow Alignment, and Application Workflow.
  • Features - Feature Groups, feature titles, and feature details.
  • PRD - Whether the Product Requirements Document is ready.
  • Technical Architecture - Whether architecture and stack recommendations are ready.
  • Dev Pack - Whether a handoff package is ready to download.

Each item can show a ready, missing, active, or blocked state.

Risks And Gaps

When the project has incomplete areas, AlphaTales may show gaps that still need attention. Examples include missing research, no features, or architecture that has not been generated yet.

Address the most important gaps before packaging your Dev Pack.

Next Steps

Use the next action card to move through the workflow in order. Once research, workflow, features, PRD, and Technical Architecture are ready, create your Dev Pack for developer handoff.

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