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Use this index to quickly access concepts and tasks related to work items and information on adding and updating work items—such as user stories, features, tasks, and bugs.
Note
The following features require the New Boards Hub feature, which is enabled by default. For more information, see Manage or enable features:
Key concepts
Core concepts
- Agile glossary
- Work item types
- Work item form
- Work item templates
- Workflow and state categories
- Assigned to
- Tags
- Following
Process frameworks
Project structure
Linking and relationships
Boards and backlogs
Queries and reporting
Customization and administration
- Customization process models
- Inheritance process model
- On-premises XML process model
- Set permissions and access
- Work tracking limits
Tools and integration
Common work item tasks
The following tasks are available to users with Contributor permissions and Basic access.
Create and add work items
- Add a work item
- Add items to a backlog
- Add items to a board
- Add Epics
- Add Features
- Add tasks
- Apply a template to a work item
- Capture work item as a template
View and navigate work items
Update and modify work items
- Assign work to a team member
- Add to discussion
- Update status of tasks (Taskboard)
- Update status of work items (board)
- Change work item type
- Move work items to a sprint
- Move work items to another project
- Move a card to a specific column position
- Reassign work items
- Reassign a checklist item
Bulk operations
Copy and clone
Links and relationships
- Add links
- Link work items
- Link to cross-organization work items
- Link to development objects
- Link to GitHub commits and pull requests
- Change the link type
- Create a branch
- Use #ID to link
Tags and organization
Follow and notifications
Queries and search
Specialized work item types
Planning and forecasting
Reporting and visualization
Export and sharing
Delete and restore
Administrative and customization tasks
Administrators with the necessary permissions perform the following tasks, as they affect all users and teams within a project.
You customize work item types using the Inheritance process model.
You customize work item types using either the Inheritance process model or On-premises XML process model. The model in effect for the project depends on the selection made for the project collection where the project is defined.
Inherited process model
Project configuration
- Create a project
- Define Area Paths
- Define Iteration Paths
- Set work tracking permissions
- Restrict modification
Work item type customization
Field customization
Form and workflow customization
- Add/remove custom groups
- Add/remove custom pages
- Add/remove a custom control
- Add/remove custom rules to a field
- Add, edit, or remove a WIT workflow state
- Move the field within the layout
- Remove a field from form
Process migration
On-premises XML process model
You customize work item types using the On-premises XML process model. For more customization options, see On-premises XML process customization.
Project configuration
Field customization
Field rules and attributes