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Project Management

Project Management Built for
Every Team and Every Stage

Projects with budget, priority, dates, approvals, and 5 status stages. Plus member roles, expiry-based sharing, auto progress.

Project Management
How it works

From a project idea to a fully governed delivery unit in four steps

TARO gives every project full structure—fields, roles, approvals, and progress—before any task exists.

1

Create

Every project starts with more than just a name.

A TARO project is a structured entity, not a folder of tasks. At creation you set a budget, priority, start and end dates, and a cover image. Every field shows on the card, so leads gauge health at a glance.

2

Progress

Five stages that cover the full project lifecycle.

Every project moves through five defined stages, from planning through active delivery to formal closure. Each transition is deliberate and logged, so the history reflects how the project actually progressed.

3

Access

Three roles. Expiry based sharing. Exact access control.

Every member gets one of three roles—Owner, Contributor, or Viewer—each with a distinct permission set enforced at every action. For external stakeholders, sharing generates a tokenised link with an expiry date.

  • Full control
  • Create & edit work
  • Read only access
4

Governance

Approval gates before completion. Progress that calculates itself.

Projects moving to Completed pass through an approval workflow requiring reviewer sign-off before close. TARO calculates progress from the ratio of completed tasks to total, updating the bar live.

Why TARO Project Management

Six reasons teams never go back

A project isn't just a list of tasks. It's a budget, a priority, a team, a timeline, and an approval gate. TARO treats it that way from creation.

Budget lives on the project not in a spreadsheet

Budget lives on the project not in a spreadsheet

Every project carries its budget alongside its tasks, timeline, and team. Leads see budget, progress, and deadline in one place no separate finance tool.

Progress calculates itself from live task ratios

Progress calculates itself from live task ratios

No manual updates, no percentage sliders. TARO calculates progress from completed tasks over total, updating the bar the instant any status changes.

Approval workflows before formal project close

Approval workflows before formal project close

Projects don't just get marked done. Designated reviewers must approve in sequence before a project moves to Completed. The workflow enforces sign-off.

Three roles access is explicit, not guessed

Three roles access is explicit, not guessed

Owner, Contributor, Viewer. What each role can and can't do is explicit and enforced. No one discovers delete access they shouldn't have.

Expiry based sharing for external stakeholders

Expiry based sharing for external stakeholders

Generate a tokenised link with an expiry date. A client sees the project's live progress until the link expires—no account, no permanent access.

Cover images make the workspace scannable

Cover images make the workspace scannable

Each project's cover image lets teams identify work fast. A grid of grey rectangles tells you nothing; named, distinct cards tell you everything.

Who uses it
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800+ product teams

already using TARO

Built for every team managing
work that spans weeks

Engineering leads, product managers, and operations teams use TARO's Project Management layer for one reason: work that spans sprints and needs approval at completion deserves real structure.

5

Project status stages

3

Member roles

100%

Progress auto calculated

0

Approvals skipped

Engineering Teams

Budget, timeline, and progress in one place not three separate tools.

Leads create a project with budget, deadline, and priority. The live progress bar calculates from task completions, and an approval gate enforces review before close. See it at a glance.

More from TARO

Projects are the container. TARO's intelligence is what fills them.

Once a project is structured, TARO's AI runs beneath it—predicting delivery and ranking what's next.

Task Management

Full task CRUD with rich text, 7 statuses, 4 priorities, subtasks, checklists, time tracking, dependencies, and 6 view modes all nested in the project.

Sprint & Agile

Run the full sprint lifecycle in a project planning, burndown, AI workload balancing, and completion prediction, with carryover at close.

Completion Analysis

Predicts the actual finish date from team velocity, current blockers, and sprint history. Gives you the real date before you commit.

Risk Prediction

Scans the project for overdue tasks, stalled workflows, velocity drops, and blocked dependencies, surfacing fixes before deadlines slip.

Common Questions

Everything you need to know about TARO Project Management

Common questions from engineering leads, PMs, and account managers evaluating TARO's project layer.

TARO calculates project progress as the ratio of completed tasks to total tasks at any moment. Tasks with a status of "Completed" count as done; all other statuses (To Do, In Progress, In Review, On Hold) count as not-done. The percentage and bar update every time a task's status changes, no manual input. Progress can also break down by tag, so a project with "Backend" and "Frontend" tags shows a separate bar per tag.
The approval workflow is a sequential sign-off chain that activates when an owner tries to move the project to "Completed." Owners define the chain at setup, adding reviewers in order (e.g. Technical Review, then Finance Approval). Each reviewer is notified and can approve or request changes, returning it to In Progress. Each step is locked until the previous is approved. Once all approve, the project closes.
Roles are enforced at the action level, not just the view level. Owners have full control: create and edit tasks, manage members, change roles, share the project, and delete it. Contributors can create tasks, edit their own, comment on any task, and view all content, but cannot manage members or settings. Viewers have read-only access and can comment, but cannot create or edit tasks. Role checks run server-side.
Owners generate a tokenised share link with an expiry date. It provides Viewer-level access: the recipient sees the project's cover, task list, progress bars, and timeline without a TARO account. When the expiry is reached, the token is automatically invalidated. Owners can also revoke a link early. Multiple active links can exist for one project. Share-link access is read-only and cannot be elevated by the recipient.
Yes, owners can change any member's role at any time from the project settings. Changes take effect immediately: a Contributor downgraded to Viewer loses task creation instantly, and a Viewer upgraded gains it. Role changes are logged with who and when. There's one Owner per project. To transfer ownership, the Owner assigns the role to another member and becomes a Contributor, so a project is never left without an owner.
Project status and task status are independent layers. Task status reflects the state of individual units of work. Project status (Planning, In Progress, On Hold, Under Review, Completed) reflects overall delivery, a stage set by the owner. A project can be "In Progress" while holding tasks in every status. It isn't derived from task statuses; it's a deliberate signal. Progress percentage is derived from task completion.
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