Project dashboard or QA dashboard is something that a QA manager needs as it saves the trouble of digging for files, reports and useful information. It's a user interface that keeps the QA manager up-to-date on matters that are important and valuable. Since a QA Manager is responsible for not one but several projects. The testing dashboards help him to know about the status of each and every project. 

A significant aspect of project dashboard is that it saves time. It displays information the instant it's created or executed. That means the QA manager need not spend their time collating results from the testers. Since every detail is displayed on the department dashboard, considerable time is saved which can be utilized for more productive purposes.  

Test management systems that come with a testing desktop, test case repository, JIRA integration offer a combined solution to more thoroughly manage the testing life cycle.