Stages

Columns and kinds

A project’s stages are the columns of its board, in order. Each has a name, a colour and a kind. The name is yours to choose; the kind tells the board and the agents what a ticket in that stage means. There are six kinds:

Kind	Means
open	Not started: waiting to be picked up.
active	Someone is working on it.
blocked	Waiting on you: an answer, a decision or an action.
review	Handed off: the PR and the preview wait for your review.
done	Finished.
cancelled	Dropped. The agent says why in a comment.

The stages a project starts with

Stage	Kind
Backlog	open
To do	open
In progress	active
Blocked	blocked
In review	review
Done	done
Cancelled	cancelled

You add, rename, recolour, reorder and remove stages in the project’s settings. Removing a stage that holds tickets asks where to move them.

How tickets move

• An agent claiming a ticket moves it from an open or blocked stage to the first active stage.
• An agent that cannot go on without you moves it to blocked, and back once you answer. A decision card blocks it and unblocks it by itself.
• An agent hands work off by moving it to review. The board then checks the hand-off (pushed, PR, CI, preview, summary) and shows what is missing on the ticket’s Hand-off card.
• Done is your call, unless the project’s instructions say otherwise. A ticket that needs another ticket’s branch merged first cannot move to done until it is.

Wherever the board or an agent asks for a status, it takes a stage’s key, its name or a kind.