Projects
A percentage somebody felt was about right. An approval buried in an inbox. A fixture nobody chased until the day of the build. Projects keeps all three on the same record as the part.
You
Scan the board once a week and see which products have stopped moving.
Gauge
Counts idle days and flags every product past its phase goal, so the stalled ones find you.
Drawn screens with demo data. Pick a card on the board to load it into the cockpit.
A status that reads ninety percent for three weeks is a guess with a decimal point. Here the bar fills from the items actually checked off, and the caption under it is that count, so when somebody asks you can open the thing the number came from.
Name the reviewers on the phase that needs them. Gauge keeps who decided, what they decided and when, one line per approver, so a year later the answer is not somebody's memory of a hallway conversation.
Tooling, and the parts blocking a release, sit on the project overview. The thing that will stop the build is visible while there is still time to do something about it.