From a better question
to a clearer plan.
The complete manual, organized around what you want to achieve. Start with the example, build your model, and use the evidence to make your next decision.
29 chapters · Search the full manual
Start with confidence
Find your bearings, explore the example, and create a project you can preserve.
What Sundial does
Connect day-to-day work, team capacity, and delivery forecasting in one browser workspace.
Quick start: explore the example
Explore the included Apollo project before setting up your own work.
Find your way around the workspace
Move between Project, Team, Kanban, Sprints, and Diagrams with a clear purpose.
Open, create, and preserve a native project
Create, open, save, and recover a native .sundial project folder.
Turn work into a realistic plan
Connect scope, workflow, priorities, and sprint commitments in one model.
Edit Project work with structured forms
Build the hierarchy, capture acceptance criteria, record effort, and connect dependencies.
Define the project workflow
Define workflow states, allowed transitions, and their effect on scheduling.
Set priorities and the order of work
Set inherited priorities and choose the order of unfinished tasks.
Track work in Kanban
Review and update actionable work through your project’s configured Kanban columns.
Plan, run, and complete sprints
Plan scope, review developer capacity, run a sprint, and carry unfinished work forward.
Import Jira data
Import saved CSV, JSON, or NDJSON data and understand refresh behavior and data fidelity.
Understand delivery and uncertainty
Choose the right view, inspect the schedule, and explore the range of possible outcomes.
Choose the right diagram
Find the right diagram for scope, schedule, capacity, uncertainty, or change.
WBS: inspect scope and status
Inspect the work hierarchy, status colors, and deliverable structure with WBS.
GANTT: review the delivery schedule
Read simulated Gantt dates, dependencies, deadlines, and PERT scenario ranges.
Sunburst: see effort and health at a glance
Use Sunburst and Sunburst over time to inspect effort, status, and changes.
Monte Carlo simulation
Sample effort estimates and inspect completion distributions with P50, P85, and P95 dates.
Make better staffing decisions
Model actual availability, inspect allocation, and test a different team.
Edit the team with structured forms
Model skills, assignments, daily capacity, leave, locations, and calendars.
Work tracker: inspect resource allocation
Inspect daily or weekly developer allocation in hours or capacity mode.
Team what-if: compare staffing choices
Compare your current team with departures or hypothetical new members.
Explain change with evidence
Capture a baseline, follow scope and forecast movement, and share a clear project review.
Capture and manage snapshots
Capture and manage dated Project-and-Team reporting snapshots.
WBS over time: explain what changed
Compare scope and status between a baseline and the current model or another checkpoint.
GANTT over time: explain delivery movement
Compare delivery dates between checkpoints with Gantt over time.
Scope: track estimate growth and reduction
Track changing estimates across saved observations and the current project.
Milestones: track delivery forecast drift
Review delivery forecast drift in the Milestones Timeline and Scope presentations.
Export diagrams and build a report
Export diagrams, export a current-state inspection copy, and assemble a reporting sequence.
Keep control and keep moving
Understand shared storage, solve problems, and find precise reference information.
Work together through a shared project folder
Collaborate through a shared project folder with automatic saving and conflict visibility.
Troubleshooting
Resolve model diagnostics, save problems, shared-editing issues, and planning surprises.
Keyboard and control reference
Look up shortcuts and controls for forms, snapshots, undo, navigation, and diagrams.
Glossary
Look up Sundial’s terms for effort, forecasts, snapshots, and staffing scenarios.
Further reading
Explore the reporting, scheduling, charting, and collaboration background.
No matching chapters
Try a broader word, such as “team”, “estimate”, “import”, or “snapshot”.