Project settings

Features

Turn off what this project doesn't use. It's hidden from the sidebar and menus for everyone. Nothing is deleted, and List, Board, Table and Milestones are always on.

CalendarItems laid out by their dates, by month or week.
GanttTimeline of items with their dependencies.
SprintsTime-boxed iterations, planned from the backlog. Without them, work is planned against milestones only.

States

The steps items move through. Each state belongs to one of five fixed categories, which reports, My Work and cross-project views use to compare progress. Board columns follow this order.

Backlog

Not planned yet: ideas and requests to look at later.

2 items

Unstarted

Planned, but nobody has started on it.

3 items

Started

Being worked on, including review and testing.

4 items
1 item

Completed

Finished. Counts towards progress and unblocks items that wait on it.

2 items

Cancelled

Won't be done. Left off the board and never counted as overdue.

1 item

Labels

Tags for any item in this project, to filter and group by. You can also create one while labelling an item.

4 items
3 items
4 items
1 item

Work item types

Every project uses these types. Hover a type's icon anywhere in iPM for a reminder.

Epic: A large piece of work, such as a feature or a phase, that runs for weeks. Set it as the parent of the stories, tasks and bugs it's made of.
Story: A change described from the user's side: something they'll be able to do once it's done. Small enough to finish in a sprint.
Task: One concrete piece of work with a clear finish line, often technical or internal, such as setting up CI or writing a runbook.
Bug: Something that's broken or behaves wrongly. Say what happened, what you expected, and how to reproduce it.