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title: "Project Insights"
description: "Analyzes project times, tasks and user activities in Leadtime. Display as a time series or overall view with flexible filters and diagrams."
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The **Project Insights** area in Leadtime enables detailed analysis of working times and activities across projects. It helps you make developments over time visible, spot bottlenecks and make well-founded decisions about resources and priorities. Here companies can track how many hours are spent on projects, tasks or users – across days, weeks or months.

See [Projects](/projects/projects)

![Illustration](/images/help-center/insights/project-insights-01.png)

### Application and benefits

With **Project Insights** you can give well-founded answers to operational and strategic questions – such as:

- How is the effort in the team distributed over time?
- Which project types tie up the most resources?
- Where do the hours consumed rise or fall significantly?
- Which employees work the hardest in certain phases?

These insights enable predictive management of projects and resources.

### Structure

The page is divided into two areas:

- **Left column:** Configuration of the evaluation (filter, period, display)
- **Right column:** Visualization of the results in different chart types

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## Configuration options

### Project selection

![Illustration](/images/help-center/insights/project-insights-02.png)

- Selection of one or more projects
- Combination of internal and external projects
- Optional: search field for quick filtering

### Time period

![Illustration](/images/help-center/insights/project-insights-03.png)

- **Start date:** sets the beginning of the analysis
- **End date:** defines the end (open = current date)

### Model

![Illustration](/images/help-center/insights/project-insights-04.png)

- **Time series:** shows the progression over time (weeks or months) – ideal for trend analyses
- **Total:** aggregated view of all hours – ideal for distribution analyses

### Periods

![Illustration](/images/help-center/insights/project-insights-05.png)

- **Weeks:** fine resolution for sprint or short-term evaluations
- **Months:** clear presentation of longer-term developments

### Breakdown by

![Illustration](/images/help-center/insights/project-insights-06.png)

- **Project:** shows the comparison of several projects
- **Task:** shows the effort per task
- **Task type:** grouped e.g. by feature, bug, idea or management
- **User:** compares individual time shares within the team
- **None:** shows the overall progression without any subdivision

#### Show data as

![Illustration](/images/help-center/insights/project-insights-07.png)

- **Groups:** shows separate bars per unit (e.g. project or user)
- **Stack:** shows totaled bars with a color breakdown

#### Create diagram

Once you have selected the parameters, the **"Create diagram"** button generates the corresponding visualization.

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## Evaluations and diagrams

### Chart types

![Illustration](/images/help-center/insights/project-insights-08.png)

- **Bar chart:** standard display for time progressions
- **Stacked bars:** shows totals with an internal breakdown
- **Pie chart:** overall distribution across projects or categories
- **Trend line:** cumulative development over the period

### Tooltip

Hovering over a bar with the mouse displays details such as hours, users and categories.

### Export & presets

- **Excel export:** download data in table format
- **Save presets:** store frequent evaluations
- **Update presets:** adjust existing evaluations

The saved diagrams can be shown on the [Dashboard](/dashboard).

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## Examples

| **Question** | **Setting options** |
| --- | --- |
| *How are 500 hours on project XY distributed over the last few weeks?* | - Select project - Set start date - Model: time series - Period: weeks or months - Breakdown by none / task type / tasks / user |
| *How are 5,000 hours from internal projects distributed across individual teams?* | - Select projects - Set start date - Model: total - Breakdown by none / task type / tasks / user |
| *How many hours were booked per month on projects X, Y and Z?* | - Select projects - Set start date - Model: time series - Period: weeks or months - Breakdown by none / task type / tasks / user - Show data: By group |
| *How many hours were spent in total on projects X, Y and Z?* | - Select projects - Set start date - Model: time series - Period: weeks or months - Breakdown by none / task type / tasks / user - Show data: By stack |