Letting the work graph point you at what matters

The work graph is the engine that watches the whole strategy to tasks chain and ranks the work most worth your attention. It does not rank by due date alone. It weighs a range of signals, from deadlines and risk on the goals your work supports to KPI momentum and what your teammates are actively updating, and puts the highest-scoring items in front of you.

Where you see it

1. Read the "Work Graph" panel at the top of My Priorities.It ranks your open work by score and shows each item with a signal-strength mark, a category label (such as "Supporting goal at risk" or "Needs alignment"), and a one-line reason for why it was raised. The same panel is available as a Dashboard widget.
2. Act on an item or dismiss it.Click a task to open it, or dismiss it to drop it from the panel. A dismissed item comes back only if its situation changes.
3. Open the Activity panel and filter to "Work Graph".The activity pane has a Work Graph filter that collects the same signals as a feed: forgotten work, stale tasks, alignment gaps, a supporting goal at risk, team signals and misaligned work.
4. Click an entity alert for the full picture.A work-graph alert that points at one goal, KPI or task opens a detailed window, so a KPI risk alert, for example, opens with its trajectory rather than just a line of text.

The signals it weighs

The work graph scores each task against a range of signals, grouped into four families. Each signal that fires adds its weight to the task's score (capped at 5.0), scores stack when several fire, and anything below the minimum relevance score is left out.

1. Context: what you were working on.Temporal (tasks you used to update at the same time as your recent work), Entity (shared project codes, client domains or company names), and Environmental (work from the same meeting, Slack channel or email thread).
2. People: what your team is doing.Behavioral (colleagues with similar work patterns also looked at this), Organizational (your manager or peers are active on the same project), and Team Momentum (teammates are updating sibling tasks under the same goal while yours sits still).
3. Strategy: does this still matter.Aligned (the task chains up through goals and projects to a strategy, with a decayed score the further away it sits) and Syntax (the task wording echoes a strategy title, vision or narrative even without an explicit link).
4. Risk and urgency: is something about to slip.Risk (the task connects to a goal or KPI that is at risk or behind), KPI Momentum (a connected KPI has stalled or is declining across its recent check-ins), and Deadline (an approaching or overdue date on the task or a parent goal).

Tuning it (admins)

Everything above is configurable in Admin → Work Graph.

1. Turn each signal on or off and set its weight.Each enabled signal has a weight from 0 to 2. Risk carries the most weight by default. Turn up Risk and Deadline for a delivery team, or KPI Momentum for a metrics-driven one.
2. Set the timing thresholds."Forgotten after" marks a task stale once untouched that long (72 hours by default), the "Active signal window" is how far back to read manager and peer activity (24 hours), and the "Min relevance score" is the floor a task must clear to be shown (0.5).
3. Set the alignment and BAU controls.Auto-suggest alignment on new tasks, the minimum suggestion confidence, how long untriaged work waits before a batched reminder, whether contributors are notified when a supporting goal is at risk, whether effort tracking (story points) weights the strategy-vs-BAU split, a target strategic share with a BAU-creep alert, and your named BAU categories. See "Watching strategy vs. BAU allocation".