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My Work & Stand-up

Two views over the same joined data. My Work is your personal priority list — what needs your attention, in order. Stand-up is the ticket board — everything in flight for the project, whoever owns it.

What's a unit of work?

Both views are built from units of work: one piece of work joined across every dimension the project tracks — the local branch, the pull request, the ticket, CI for the PR's head commit, and (when AWS connectors are wired) the deploy. Any dimension can be missing: a branch with no PR yet is still a unit, and so is a To Do ticket with no branch. Salience materialises units continuously from synced entities — see Concepts.

My Work

Units grouped into sections, rendered in a fixed priority order — the top of the page is always the most urgent thing. Only sections with something in them appear.

My Work: priority sections with per-item chain state

SectionWhat it means
Needs your reviewSomeone else's PR, your verdict requested
Changes requestedYour PR — a reviewer asked for changes
Stuck in reviewYour PR, three or more review rounds — time for a conversation
CI failingYour PR, red on the latest push
BlockingYour work is holding other tickets up
Out of syncYour tools disagree about this work (see below)
StaleYour PR — the reviewer hasn't engaged in days
Ready to mergeYour PR — ship it
Awaiting reviewYour PR, waiting calmly
BlockedWaiting on another ticket
In progress · no PRLocal branch, no PR opened yet
To doNo work started
DeployedShipped

Out of sync is the cross-source section no single tool can give you: PR merged but the ticket not closed, branch started but the ticket not moved, ticket marked done while the PR is still open, or a ticket in an active workflow with no branch or PR at all. The row's meta line tells you which.

What appears here

My Work is user-relative, not just project-scoped. A unit shows up when you own it or are directly involved — ticket assigned to you, branch or PR you authored, or a PR where your review is requested. Untouched team tickets stay off the page.

The page is live: units update as syncs land and as your local branches change. There's no manual refresh, and currently no filters on this page — audience filtering lives on Stand-up.

Stand-up

One row per ticket, with the matching branch and any PRs joined alongside — read your update straight off the screen. Salience finds the branch by looking for the ticket key (e.g. LW-508) in branch names, and joins PRs via the branch and via keys in PR head branch names. This means the join depends on Jira-style keys appearing in your branch names; branches named without a key won't attach to their ticket.

Board and list modes

The header toggles between two renderings of the same rows:

  • Board (default) — a kanban of status columns: To do, In progress, Blocked, Code review, In test, Done. Empty columns stay visible so the pipeline shape reads end-to-end.
  • List — the same rows grouped by status, empty groups dropped.

The Stand-up board: ticket-anchored cards with PR and review state joined on

Filters

ControlWhat it does
My work / All tickets / UnassignedAudience filter, with live counts. "My work" means: assigned to you in Jira, a branch you started with no PR yet, a PR you authored, or a PR requesting your review. "Unassigned" shows tickets with no assignee.
Board pickerAppears when the project has Jira boards. Scope rows to one board, or "All boards".
Tick toggleHide completed tickets (on by default).

The header also shows a row count, and a warning icon per connector whose last sync failed — hover it for the error.

The unit page

Click a unit's title on My Work to open its dedicated page: a graph of the unit's dimensions — ticket → branch → PR → CI → deploy, plus any blocking/blocked tickets hanging off it — a PR cadence chart, and a per-unit timeline. Cards update live as the underlying entities change.

The deploy node only fills in when AWS connectors are connected and the image/task correlation chain exists for the project — for most setups it stays empty. See Connect your tools for what feeds each dimension.

Salience is a desktop app for developers.