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Manage Work Items
Use work items to track the progress of changes created for a specific task, such as a user story, feature, or issue. Tracking releases through work items makes it easier to monitor progress and identify concerns.
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Review the work item management best practices to learn about recommendations and suggested best practices to manage your work items effectively.
Create a Work Item
All work begins with a work item. A work item captures a logical unit of work, such as a user story, task, or issue. A work item includes:
- ID: A unique, auto-generated identifier with a WI-prefix. For example, WI-012345. The ID helps users differentiate work items and identifies the related feature branch in the project repository.
- Subject: A required, brief summary of the task.
- Description: Detailed information about the task. For issues, include reproduction steps. For user stories, include benefits and acceptance criteria.
- Assigned To: The user responsible for completing the work item.
Your team creates work items as needed to capture the complete scope of the project. For steps, see Create and Assign Work Items.
You can also create work items directly in your development environment from DX Inspector.
Open a Work Item
When you open a project for the first time, it may contain several work items that your team created. You and other team members can create other work items as the project progresses.
From the DevOps Projects tab, select your project to open the All Work Items page. If you know the work item ID, go to the Work Item tab, search for the work item ID, and open it.
If a work item doesn't have an associated development environment yet, DevOps Center associates the DX Inspector environment and creates a branch when you commit for the first time. Alternatively, use external IDEs or other development tools to work outside DevOps Center.
DevOps Center also creates a branch when the work item moves to the In Progress status. You can add or change a development environment from the DevOps Pipelines tab.
Modify Work Item Details
Keep work items up to date. For example, if you identify a new acceptance criteria, edit the work item to make sure that the assignee knows of the change. If you're ready to start on a work item, assign it to yourself, which lets other team members know you've picked it up.
From the Work Items tab, find the required work item and click the
work item ID. To edit details, use the Details tab, then click the
edit icon to update the Subject, Description, or Assigned To fields.
- Work Outside the DevOps Center UI
Use your preferred local development tools to work on next-generation DevOps Center work items and commit changes directly to source control. After merging your changes, complete the promotion in DevOps Center. - Work Item Lifecycle and Status
A work item includes a status and progress indicator so your team can quickly understand where work stands in the release cycle. Work items move through these statuses: New, In Progress, In Review, Ready to Promote, Promoted, and Closed. - Change Work Item Status to Never
Use the Never status when plans change, when you need to start over, or when a change conflicts with another work item’s promotion.
