Workflows provide better control for critical tasks or requirements where the change has strong impact on resources or deliverables. Codebeamer trackers integrate a simple and flexible process engine to model business process workflows.

You can use trackers with or without workflows. Trackers can inherit a workflow from other trackers or use their own workflows. Workflows can be customized. For more information, see State Transitions.

If you have parent or child hierarchies of configuration items or issues, you can define dependencies between parent field values and the appropriate child field values recursively. For example, if you wish to ensure that a parent issue is not closed until all the children issues are closed, then you can manage this dependency using one of the distribution rules, for more information see, Dynamic pick-list fields. Similarly, if you want to define the spent hours on parent issue as the sum of the spent hours of children, you can define this aggregation rules.