When you are working across multiple projects, keeping track of what you personally need to be doing today can get complicated fast. The board shows you the sprint. The backlog shows you the queue. But neither of those answers the question a developer actually starts their day with: what is mine, what is urgent, and what is blocked?
My Work is Orvezo's answer to that question. It is a personal view that pulls your stories from across all projects into one place, organized by what needs your attention and when. It is accessible from the left sidebar under your workspace navigation and it updates in real time as stories are created, assigned, and updated across your projects.
What My Work shows you
My Work is organized into a set of quick-access buckets at the top of the page: Overdue, Due soon, Active sprints, and Assigned. Each bucket shows a count of stories that match. Clicking a bucket filters the view to show only those items. This gives you a fast way to triage your work at the start of the day without reading through an entire board.
Below the quick-access buckets, the page shows two panels side by side. The left panel is Assigned to me, which lists every story currently assigned to you across all projects, regardless of which sprint it is in or what status it has. The right panel has two sections: Active sprints, which shows your items from any currently running sprint, and Needs attention, which surfaces items that have something specific requiring action, such as a blocked story or an overdue due date.
The Assigned to me panel
This is the main working area of My Work. Every story assigned to you across all projects appears here, showing the story title, the project it belongs to, its status, and its due date if one has been set.
Stories are organized so you can see at a glance which ones have upcoming due dates and which have none. Stories with due dates that are approaching or have passed are surfaced visually so they are not buried below stories with no date at all.
You can click any story in this list to open it and update it directly from My Work. You do not need to navigate to the project, find the board, and locate the story. The story opens in place, you can update the status, add a description, change the priority, or leave a note, and then return to My Work without losing context.
Active sprints
The Active sprints panel on the right shows items from any sprint that is currently running, filtered to only your assignments. If you are working across two projects that both have active sprints, your items from both sprints appear here together.
This is useful for async teams where different projects may be on different sprint cycles. Instead of opening each project's board separately to see where you stand in each sprint, My Work gives you the combined picture in one place.
If there are no active sprints across any of your projects, this section shows a message confirming that. It does not show backlog or parking lot items, only items that are part of a sprint currently in progress.
Needs attention
The Needs attention panel surfaces items that have a specific reason they require your action. This includes stories that are marked as blocked, stories that have passed their due date, and stories that have been sitting in a particular status for an unusually long time.
Blocked stories are particularly important here. If a story assigned to you has been marked blocked, it means someone or something is preventing progress. My Work makes sure this does not get buried. A blocked story that sits invisible for three days because nobody noticed it is one of the most common causes of sprint failure for small teams.
When Needs attention shows nothing, that is a meaningful signal too. It means your assigned work is moving, unblocked, and within its due dates. That is the state you want to maintain across an active sprint.
Filtering My Work
By default, My Work shows items across all projects in your workspace. You can filter by project using the Projects filter at the top of the page. This is useful if you want to focus on just one project for a period of time without the noise from others.
You can also filter by Tags, Epic, Priority, Blocked status, Due state, and Sprint scope. These filters work the same way they do on the backlog and board pages. For example, filtering by Priority set to High will show only your high-priority items across all projects, giving you an immediate view of what matters most.
The Sprint scope filter lets you narrow My Work to items in the current sprint only, rather than all assigned items. This is a useful setting when you want to use My Work as a sprint-focused daily view rather than a broad overview of everything on your plate.
Saving views in My Work
If you find yourself applying the same filters every day, for example always narrowing to one specific project and filtering to active sprint items only, you can save that configuration as a named view. Use the Manage Views button to save, rename, and switch between views.
Saved views persist between sessions. If you work best with a particular filtered configuration, you can set it once and return to it every morning without reconfiguring the filters each time.
How My Work fits into your daily routine
The most effective way to use My Work is as your starting point each morning. Before opening any project board or backlog, open My Work. Check the Overdue and Due soon buckets first. If anything is overdue, that is your first conversation of the day, either resolving it or updating the due date with a clear reason. Check Needs attention next. If anything is blocked, that is an immediate action item. Then review Assigned to me to confirm your plan for the day aligns with what is actually in flight.
This routine takes about two minutes. It replaces the need to open multiple project boards just to get oriented. For developers working across two or three projects simultaneously, this alone saves a meaningful amount of context-switching time each day.
My Work does not replace the board. The board is where the team sees the full sprint together, and it is the right tool for standups and sprint reviews. My Work is your personal layer, the view that answers what you specifically need to do today, not what the whole team is doing.
My Work for team leads
My Work is built around the currently logged-in user, so it always shows your own assignments. As a team lead or project owner, your tool for seeing across the whole team is the board filtered by assignee, or the Workspace Reports page for a higher-level view.
That said, My Work is still useful for leads because leads are often assigned to stories too, whether as the primary owner or as a reviewer. If you are carrying sprint work alongside your coordination responsibilities, My Work keeps your own commitments visible so they do not get dropped in the noise of managing others.
The combination of My Work for individual focus and the board for team visibility gives each person on the team a clear answer to their most important question at any given moment. For developers it is what do I work on today. For the team it is where does the sprint stand. Both questions need answers, and Orvezo gives them separately rather than trying to answer both from the same view.