Work Item Types

Fluxlix supports five work item types. Each type represents a different level of scope or category of work.

Epic

An epic is a large body of work that spans multiple features or a significant portion of a product goal. Epics are the highest level of the hierarchy and typically take weeks or months to complete. Use epics to group related features under a single theme or initiative.

Feature

A feature is a distinct piece of functionality that delivers value to end users. Features belong to an epic and are broken down into stories. A feature is typically scoped to a sprint or a small number of sprints.

Story

A story (or user story) represents a concrete requirement or user-facing behavior. Stories belong to a feature and are broken down into tasks. Stories are small enough to be completed by one developer in a few days.

Task

A task is a specific, actionable unit of work. Tasks are the leaf nodes of the hierarchy — they do not have children. A task belongs to a story and represents a single piece of implementation work such as writing a function, updating a config, or drafting a document.

Bug

A bug represents a defect or unintended behavior. Bugs are not restricted to a single level of the hierarchy — they can exist as standalone items or as children of epics, features, or stories, depending on how your team organizes defect tracking.

Hierarchy

Work items can be arranged in a parent-child hierarchy:

Epic
  Feature
    Story
      Task

Bugs can be attached at any level, or exist without a parent.

A parent item's progress is informed by the completion state of its children. Closing or completing child items moves the parent closer to done.

Setting a Parent

When creating or editing a work item, use the Parent field to link it to a higher-level item. The parent must be of a compatible type — for example, a story can be parented to a feature, but not to another story or a task.

Compatible parent types by item type:

Navigating the Hierarchy

On the work item detail panel, the breadcrumb at the top shows the full ancestry of an item (e.g., Epic > Feature > Story). Click any ancestor to navigate up the hierarchy. The Children section at the bottom of the detail panel lists all direct child items and lets you create new ones inline.