One bar pair per person: work assigned to them against the hours their calendar has already spent. The mismatch is the story: a full plate plus a full calendar means something will slip, and now you know whose.
Everything here lives on a board with the Pulse above it: the line that reads the whole board and says what changed, what needs attention, and what to do next.
Edit the wording until it fits your business exactly. Two ways businesses bend this one: