DoView Boards
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One free board. The 17 questions every organization or initiative needs to answer.
Want the big picture? See Using DoView Boards for how one board answers the 17 key questions about any organization or initiative.
What a quick guide to using boards?See DoView Boards How To for screenshot and functions.
Single source of truth.
DoView Boards give you one shared visual source of truth for planning, implementation, accountability, measurement, evaluation, improvement, and reporting.
They show the outcomes logic behind the work, so people can see what is being done, why it matters, who is responsible, and how progress will be judged.
One board. Many users.
Using a DoView Board:
Senior leaders see the whole outcomes system.
Planners turn scattered material into one coherent board.
Consultants get a free, open method for client work.
Boards and governors ask sharper oversight questions.
Funders and commissioners see how activity is expected to lead to outcomes.
Project managers keep delivery aligned with intended results.
Evaluators connect measures and evaluation questions to outcomes.
AI users give AI one source of truth so AI-generated documents stay aligned.
Built around the 17 questions every organisation needs to answer
Built around the 17 questions every organisation or initiative needs to answer.
Every organisation or initiative needs to answer the same core questions: what is to be achieved, what matters most, how change is expected to happen, what needs to be done, who is responsible, how progress will be measured, and how learning and improvement will occur.
A DoView Board puts those answers into one clear visual structure that can be used for planning, oversight, delivery, evaluation, reporting, and AI-assisted document generation.
Everyone plans
Everyone plans. Families plan. Teams plan. Businesses plan. Governments plan. People plan their work, their lives, and their futures. AI systems plan too.
But while everyone says planning should be outcomes-driven, most planning tools push people quickly into tasks, projects, milestones, and activity lists before they have clearly mapped what they are actually trying to achieve.
DoView Boards fill this missing layer.
They get the outcomes logic of a plan out of people’s heads and into one shared visual structure
They give you a practical picture of: if we do this, then this is what should happen..
“After over twenty years working on planning, implementation, improvement, reporting, app development, and outcomes tools, we developed DoView Boards as the lightweight, browser-based planning and outcomes tool that anyone is free to use and develop further”
One Board to align them all
A DoView Board can be used by everyone involved in planning, implementation, improvement, reporting, and oversight.
At present, planning and reporting are often spread across documents, spreadsheets, slides, contracts, project plans, dashboards, reports, and meeting notes.
These are often fragmented and not fully aligned.
A DoView Board creates one shared visual model that everyone can refer to.
The missing lawyer above project planning
DoView Boards do not replace detailed project management tools. They sit above them.
A DoView Board holds the high-level outcomes logic. Project management tools hold the detailed tasks, timelines, milestones, and operational information.
Together, they give you both the strategic outcomes picture and the delivery detail. And in some cases you can put in a DoView Board’s project boxes a link to the project’s page within your existing lower-level project planning platform.
Why DoView Boards are different
DoView Boards are not just another planning tool.
They are a new type of outcomes tool for creating and managing the ‘outcomes systems’ that sits behind action.
They are different because they:
fill the outcomes gap above output-level project planning
make the higher-level This-Then strategic outcomes logic visible and usable
bring planning, implementation, improvement, and reporting together
provide a single source of truth
work for any organisation, initiative, policy, strategy, project, collaboration, or potentially AI agent system
can be created quickly using the provided AI prompts
open as standard HTML webpages, viewable in any browser
can be edited manually or built, read, and updated by AI systems
can be used as the source from which AI generates aligned plans, reports, contracts, summaries, and other documentation
A DoView Board works like a blueprint for outcomes-focused work: it shows how the pieces are meant to fit together before people move into detailed delivery.
They answer the 17 key questions
DoView Boards are designed around the 17 key questions you need to answer about any organisation or initiative you are running, funding, supporting, evaluating, or overseeing.
These include questions about outcomes, priorities, actions, accountabilities, risks, measures, evidence, progress, learning, improvement, and reporting.
For the full explanation, see Using DoView Boards.
A single source of truth in a document-swamped AI age
AI can now generate plans, reports, summaries, contracts, slides, dashboards, and other documents very quickly.
But this creates a new problem: documents can multiply faster than organisations can keep them aligned.
A DoView Board gives people and AI systems one shared outcomes model to work from.
This helps keep AI-generated documents aligned with the actual strategy, logic, accountabilities, measures, and intended outcomes.
Simple to use, powerful in practice
DoView Boards are simple enough for everyday use, but powerful enough for complex planning and implementation.
You create a DoView Board with an AI prompt, amend it so it matches what you are doing, and then use it to guide planning, delivery, reporting, evaluation, and improvement.
You open it in a normal browser as an HTML file.
You can edit it, share it, link it to other tools, and use Board Chat to ask questions about the board.
Free and open to use
DoView Boards are intended to be used widely.
Anyone can:
build a DoView Board for free using our provided prompt
use DoView Boards in their own work
consult using them
train others in their use
build them into any application, planning or other platform, or system
Just acknowledge that you are using them.
However, if you want us to assist you, get in touch regarding:
creating and using your DoView Board
training
implementation
incorporating or extending their use in tools, apps, systems, or platforms
certifying people in the use of DoView Boards
certifying that a particular implementation meets the official DoView Board specification
Build DoView Boards into your own tools
Developers, consultants, trainers, organisations, and AI system designers can build DoView Boards into apps, platforms, planning tools, workflows, and sector systems.
They can be tailored to different settings and ways of working.
The only requirement is that you acknowledge that you are creating DoView Boards and using DoView Planning as part of your planning and implementation approach.
Download the free DoView Board Drawing AI Prompt
See the related DoView Board pages
Use the links below for more detail on how to use DoView Boards.
Using DoView Boards
Show how to use a DoView Board to answer the 17 key questions about any organization or initiative.
DoView Boards How To
Shows practical screenshots of the main features of a DoView Board..