Tracking project progress with the fever chart

Summary: See where each released project stands on the fever chart, and the path it took to get there, from the history kept in each project's tags.

 

Applies to

Property	Value
Product	LYNX-X
Version	28.10.9846.0
Required permissions	Access to Portfolio > Project list and to the projects
Last updated	2026-10-13
Owner	Support

 

Before you start

• The projects you want to follow are released. See Releasing a project.
• Your space records a history. With Enable auto scheduler switched on in Space properties, LYNX-X takes a tag of every released project each day. A space owner switches it on: see Setting up your space's general properties.
• Task progress is kept up to date. A tag records the plan as it is. If nobody updates the remaining work of the started tasks, the daily tags show buffer consumption rising while progress stands still. See Updating a started task.

 

What the fever chart shows

Each released project is a point on the chart. Across: how much of its longest chain is complete. Up: how much of its buffer is consumed.

The zone a point sits in says how much attention and priority the project needs. Green: it is progressing as expected for the buffer it has used. Orange, then red: it has used more buffer than its progress so far justifies. The zone borders are set for the whole space in Space properties.

The chart's history comes from tags. A tag is a snapshot of a project's chain complete and buffer consumed at one moment. Each project keeps its own tags.

 

Procedure

Opening the fever chart

1. Go to Portfolio > Project list and select the Released filter.
2. In the left rail, select Fever.

The fever chart opens in its own window, with one point per project, labelled with the project's ID. In the Project list, each project gets a tick box: the ticked projects are the ones on the chart.

3. To leave a project off the chart, untick it in the Project list.
4. In Buffers, choose which buffer each project is shown by. Show most critical buffer is the default. Show all buffers shows each of a project's buffers as a point of its own.

Showing the history

1. In History, choose how far back to look: 7 days, 14 days, 1 month or All.

Each project is drawn as a path through its tags, from the oldest to the newest. The project's label sits on the newest point.

2. If the paths are squeezed into the bottom of the chart, set Vertical range to 100%.

Reading a project's path

• A step to the right is progress on the chain. A step up is buffer consumed.
• In the example, T01 started in green, crossed orange and is now well into red: its buffer was consumed faster than its chain progressed, so it needs the most attention. D01 moved from green into orange. D02 shows a single point: it has no other tag in the last 7 days.

Finding a project's tags

1. In the Project list, select the project's ID, then select Open project.
2. In the left rail, select Tags.

The panel lists the project's tags by date, below Current.

3. Select Edit tags.

A table lists every tag, newest first: when it was taken (When), the buffer (ID), and the Longest chain complete and Buffer consumed it recorded. These are the points the fever chart draws. A project with several buffers has one row per buffer for each tag.

Removing a tag that is not as expected

1. In Edit tags, tick the rows of the tag. For a project with several buffers, tick every row with the same When.
2. Select Remove selected tags.
3. Select Close.

The tag is gone from the table and from the fever chart's history.

 

Expected outcome

The fever chart shows where each released project stands today and, for the period you chose in History, the path it took to get there. Each project's tags are under Tags in the project.

 

Troubleshooting

Problem	Resolution
Each project shows a single point.	History is on Show 'current' data point, or the project has no tags in the period. Choose a longer period, or check the project's tags in Tags > Edit tags.
A path climbs straight up, with no step to the right.	The tags were taken while nobody updated the started tasks' remaining work. Keep progress up to date: see Updating a started task.
A project is missing from the chart.	It is unticked in the Project list. Tick it.
A tag shows values nobody recognises.	Remove it in Edit tags.

 

See also

• Releasing a project
• Reading project statistics
• Updating a started task
• Setting up your space's general properties

 

Revision history

Version	Date	Author	Changes
1.0	2026-10-13	Support	New article.