Work items
User stories
In HacknPlan, user stories are higher-level work items that can contain child tasks.
A story represents a feature or requirement from player-value perspective, while child tasks represent implementation work.
This adds an organizational layer between detailed tasks and high-level game design.
Lifecycle
User stories follow the same board lifecycle model as tasks:
- Planned
- In progress
- Testing
- Completed
Assignment behavior:
- stories can have assigned users
- child tasks can have their own assignees
- assigning a user to a child task auto-adds them to the parent story
- removing a user from a story removes them from child tasks where applicable
Classification
Stories can be classified by:
- Game design element (optional, recommended)
- Board
- Tags
Creating a user story
Create from New or shortcut U.
Like task creation, story creation is progressive. Use Edit fields and Remember fields to control form complexity and defaults.
Admins can enforce required fields in Administration -> Modules.
Available fields include:
- title
- design element
- assigned users
- tags
- board
- importance
- start/due dates
- estimated cost
- description
- child tasks
- attachments
- dependencies
Studio supports batch story creation.
