Key concepts and work item tasks in Azure Boards and Azure DevOps
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Use this index to quickly access concepts related to work items and information on adding and updating work items—such as users stories, features, tasks, and bugs.
Key concepts
Work item user tasks
Tasks listed below are available to users with Contributor permissions and Basic access.
- Email work item list
- Export a work item list
- Follow a work item
- Forecast work items
- Get notified of work item changes
- Group work items
- Link to cross-organization work items
- Link to development objects
- Link to GitHub commits and pull requests
- Link to work items from a wiki
- Link work items
- List work items
- List work items in a wiki
- Manage bugs
- Manage issues or impediments
- Manage work item tags
- Map work items
- Move work items to a sprint
- Move work items to another project
- Open work items
- Print work items
- Prioritize backlog items
- Query work item history
- Query for work items
Administrative customization tasks
Tasks listed below must be performed by an administrator who has the necessary permissions, as they affect all users and teams within a project.
You customize work item types using the On-premises XML process model. For more customization options, see On-premises XML process customization.