IQ Central
IQ Central is the Sensei IQ workspace. Instead of navigating a fixed set of pages, each person works from a canvas of blocks — small, focused views that each answer one question for one role — and arranges that canvas the way they want it.
A workspace, not a screen
Three things are true of IQ Central at once.
- A library of blocks — each one a role-tuned mini-application that answers a single recurring question, rather than a page that shows everything about a subject
- A canvas each person arranges — blocks can be moved, resized, minimized, or focused on one at a time. It is not a fixed dashboard, and it is not a set of reports
- A memory — the product saves each person's arrangement and restores it next time. Nobody rebuilds their working view every morning
Your administrator decides which blocks each role starts with, and a person only ever sees the blocks their security role permits.
What makes something a block
Every block in Sensei IQ is scoped against the same four rules, and they are the reason the workspace stays legible as it grows.
- One user — someone with the role, the access, and the permission to act
- One question — a specific question that person asks repeatedly during their work
- One scope — a coherent slice of data that matches how they already think about it
- One set of verbs — what they can legitimately do, right there, right then
The practical test is the last one. If the person opening a block cannot legitimately press the buttons in it, they are in the wrong block.
This is why the same record can appear in two different blocks. A change request is one kind of record, but the project manager who raises it and the portfolio manager who approves it are doing different jobs with different authority, so each gets a block built for their side of the exchange rather than sharing one screen that half-fits both.
It is also why a person who holds several roles does not switch between modes. They compose one canvas from the blocks their roles entitle them to, and work from it.
Three ways to act
Blocks are built to be worked in, not just read. Actions come in three levels, so the effort of taking one matches its weight.
- A single tap on a row — change a status, mark a project on track, commit a resource, approve or reject. It applies immediately, and where a mistake is plausible you get a short window to undo it
- An expand in place — the row grows downward into a small panel for the things that deserve a moment's thought: filling in a status update, accepting or rejecting a decision, editing a risk's narrative. Everything in the panel saves together, and closing it with unsaved changes asks first
- A link out to the full record — for the work a focused block should not try to absorb
Some blocks are for reading and judgment rather than action, and correctly offer nothing to click. That is deliberate.
Seeing shape, not just lists
Two features exist because a list of rows cannot answer every question.
- Lenses open alongside a block to show structure the list cannot: risks plotted on a likelihood-and-consequence matrix, a change request's effect cascading from project to program to portfolio, or key dates and milestones on a single timeline. A lens opens beside the list, never on top of it
- Signal faces are what a block collapses to when you shrink it: a count, an urgency bar, a headline number, a small matrix. They let you keep several blocks in view and see at a glance whether anything needs you
The same information, read at three altitudes: the signal face tells you whether something is wrong, the list tells you which one is worst, and the lens tells you how bad it is.
Where you use it
IQ Central runs in two places, and it is the same workspace in both.
- Microsoft Teams — as a personal tab in the Sensei IQ Teams app
- The Sensei IQ app — as a page in the model-driven app
Your arrangement is personal to you and follows you between them.
What is included
Fifteen blocks ship with the current release, grouped by who they are built for.
For everyone
| Block | What it answers |
|---|---|
| Issues | Where your team triages the problems already costing time or money — change status, reassign, set priority, and log a resolution without leaving the page |
| Decisions | Every open decision your team owes, grouped by urgency, with one accept-or-reject moment that records who decided and when |
| Deliverables | What you owe, whether it is slipping against plan, and one button to hand it over for acceptance |
| Risks | The list triages each risk, and the matrix beside it shows at a glance whether your exposure clusters where it actually hurts |
| Calendar | Everything of yours that has a date on it, triaged as an agenda, with your leave and company holidays drawn in alongside |
| Navigation | Role-based tiles and quick-create buttons, plus a short introduction for people using Sensei IQ for the first time |
For project managers
| Block | What it answers |
|---|---|
| Projects | Every project you own, ranked by how much trouble it is in, with the schedule beside it — and you can post this week's status update without leaving the page |
| Change Requests | Raise a change and watch it move: author the ask, put numbers on days, cost, and hours, name who approves it, and see the knock-on effect up to the portfolio before you send it |
| Status Update Nudge | Only the projects and programs whose last update has gone stale, worst first, so status reporting does not go quiet |
| Deliverable Acceptance | The deliverables other people owe you, ordered by how long they have waited on you. Accept or send back straight from the row |
For portfolio managers
| Block | What it answers |
|---|---|
| Portfolio and Programs Overview | The whole hierarchy, every program with its projects beneath it, re-read three ways without leaving the block: as a timeline, as health, and as money |
| Change Request Approval | Your decision queue. Approve, reject, or park each request from the row, and see the submitter's estimate cascade up through project, program, and portfolio before you decide |
For resource managers
| Block | What it answers |
|---|---|
| Resource Request Inbox | Every staffing request your people are proposed for, sorted by how soon it starts, with the shortfall visible and hours bookable day by day |
For administrators
| Block | What it answers |
|---|---|
| Integration Health Monitor | Whether every integration is still flowing. It leads with what is broken, says in plain language why and what to do next, and shows the last few runs |
Daily brief
| Block | What it answers |
|---|---|
| Insights | A short brief across everything you are accountable for — what is critical, what to watch, what is steady — with every line a single click to the block that can act on it |
Insights is part of Connected Intelligence, the optional Sensei IQ AI service. It is off by default and your administrator chooses whether to enable it. See the Connected Intelligence Advisors FAQ for how it handles your data and what is currently available.
Setting it up
- Role groups — your administrator defines which blocks each role starts with, so a new user opens a workspace that already suits their job
- Security roles — what a person can be given is governed by their security role. A block never exposes a record or an action their role does not already permit, so the workspace cannot be used to route around Dataverse security
- Personal arrangement wins — once someone arranges their own canvas, that arrangement is theirs and is not overwritten by a later change to the role default
Configuration detail lives in the IQ Central settings reference for administrators.