Work Item Types

Dragon Planner supports seven work item types, organized in a hierarchy from high-level planning down to individual tasks.

The Hierarchy

Choosing the Right Type

• Use Initiatives for big-picture goals that span weeks or months
• Break Initiatives into Epics for major feature areas
• Use Stories to describe what a user needs
• Track defects with Bugs
• Use Tasks for concrete to-do items
• Break complex tasks into SubTasks
• Use Spikes when you need to research something before committing to a plan

Hierarchy Rules

Dragon Planner enforces these parent-child rules to keep your project organized. If you try to drag an item to an invalid parent, you'll see a warning message explaining why it can't be placed there.