Boulder: Usually a flow or group of screens that together make up a feature. 5 days or less
Rock: Usually a new section or screen - .5 to 1 day
Stone: Usually a small improvement e.g a new button that triggers an email to be sent. 1 to 2 hours
Pebble: Usually a very small improvement eg add a validation to a field, copy update
Bug
Bug - Critical Anything that prevents a specific percentage of users from accessing a specific scope of important features (define as relevant).
Bug - Regression
This is when a bug was introduced by another task, as opposed to just something that wasn't accounted for in the first place.
Doc/Other
This is used when the “task” in asana is more of a record/document than a technical task.
Epics
Not all work can be done in less than a week. An Epic…
Is likely to take more than a week - often 2 to 3 weeks.
Often has a “migration/rollout” phase which contain tasks that are non-dev, but equally important.
Usually consists of multiple boulders that all need to be shipped at the same time.
Mid to long term roadmap items are also usually conceived of as epics, so the Epic concept can be useful for roadmap planning - brain dump in to the “Epics” tab in Asana.
We want to keep this in an easy-to-access place in Asana that doesn’t clutter up the itemised weekly tickets, so…
Separate view tab in Asana with filter set to only show tasks of type “Epic” → This is where the planning happens.
Add the broken-down-work as sub tasks, which in turn have their own task type and allocated week
When a new week starts, you
If it’s the final week of the Epic & it’s getting shipped, you can also set the