Stages

Uclusion relies on understanding a job’s lifecycle.

Stages let you and Uclusion understand the state of a job’s collaboration at all times.

Assigned

This stage is for jobs that are assigned but not in progress. Job approval can occur here and approvals will expire after a configurable amount of time in this stage.

Changing a job’s assignments will remove all approvals and return the job to Assigned.

You can also specify required approvers that will be sent a persistent notification

Assistance Needed

Opening a blocking issue, question, or suggestion will automatically move a job to this stage. Resolving these comments moves the job back.

Approved

Only an assignee can move the job into Approved and then a notification for a progress report or new estimated completion date is sent once past the current estimate. Entering a progress report sends to the group so that they can reply or review.

Tasks Complete

Tasks Complete stage indicates the job is not actively being worked on but may still change after feedback. In order to move to this stage all tasks must be resolved. Moving to Tasks Complete prompts for creation of a progress report and that report may gather more feedback. If a task is opened the job will automatically change stage.

The number of jobs visible in the swimlanes for Tasks Complete is configurable: Config

Not Doing

Moving to Not Doing automatically resolves all open comments. Not Doing jobs are visible only in the archive.

Backlog

Unassigning a jobs automatically moves it to this stage. A Ready to Start backlog job will send a notification requesting assignment.