Phase Fields
Phases are useful for organizing an item type’s workflow if it contains a large number of states and provide users with a broad overview of an item’s status independent of the workflow. For example, a Feature type could have the following phases (states are in parentheses):
• Requirements (Draft 1, First Draft Signoff, ...)
• Design (Update Data Model, ...)
• Development (In Development, Unit Testing, ...)
• Testing (White Box Testing, Black Box Testing, Regression Testing, ...)
• Implementation (Planning, Implementation, ...)
• Post-Implementation Maintenance (Patch 1 In Progress, ...)
You can create any number of phases for a phase field. States not grouped into a phase are referred to as out of phase states. When an item is in an out of phase state, the phase field displays Out of Phase.