An interesting challenge in project management: tracking people, not just projects

Something we've been thinking about while building project management software:

Most project management platforms organize work around projects, boards, and tasks. But what happens when you want to understand an individual's workload and contribution across multiple teams?

Consider a developer working across three different projects.

Each project has its own board, tasks, deadlines, and reporting. To understand that developer's overall workload, a manager might need to visit three separate boards.

This creates a visibility problem.

We think project management software should make it easier to answer questions like:

• How much work is assigned to one person across different projects?

• Which team members are overloaded?

• Where are tasks getting stuck?

• Are completed tasks translating into actual delivery?

This is one of the problems we've been exploring while building Otper.

We're interested in understanding how other makers and engineering managers handle this.

How does your current project management setup give you an organization-wide view of an individual's workload without switching between multiple project boards?

Would especially appreciate perspectives from people managing distributed development teams.