9 Track and Manage Tasks, Defects, and Features

Use issues to track new feature requests or enhancements, assign tasks to team members, or file bugs.

You can create, update, and search issues from the Issues page or from Agile boards. You can also use REST APIs to create, retrieve, and update issues.

In a project, you can create an issue as a Task, Defect, or a Feature. If your team uses an Agile Scrum board to update issues, Epic and Story types of issues are also available. An Epic is a larger issue typically composed of multiple smaller sub-issues or Story issues. An Epic must have sub-issues and can span multiple sprints.

These are the key steps you’ll perform to create and track issues:

1. As the project owner, start by setting up products, components, and releases for your project, which you'll need when you start identifying tasks, defects, and features.

   If the default set of issue fields don’t meet your requirements, create custom fields.

2. Create issues and assign them to your team members.

3. Update issues, either from the Issues page or from an Agile board.