UX/ Designing & prototyping inter-related points of interaction

I had this idea of 'what if you could visualize volume of work, not just tasks, as well as distribution and relationships (as in 'this task within ui relates to that one in dev towards this milestone'), and what if this was viewable in all sorts of ways (by team, location, goal, estimated time..), while still keeping standard task lists but also adding task flows'..

And what if projects were represented as phases within goal 'tracks', each with their own milestone progress bars, estimates, processes, that you could pre-plan, rearrange, reuse—how would that look, or even work?