Workflow Board

The Workflow Board is a visual Kanban view for tracking issues and PRs through your development workflow.

Operum workflow board — visual Kanban view of your development workflow

The board

The board has two tabs — Engineering and Marketing & Community — each with its own columns.

Engineering

Every engineering task flows through these seven columns, each handled by the right agent:

B
Backlog

New task waiting to be picked up. The PM creates and prioritizes these.

A
Architecture

The Architect reviews the task for technical approach, scope, and edge cases.

R
Ready for Dev

Architecture approved. The Engineer picks up the task when ready.

I
In Progress

The Engineer is actively implementing — writing code, creating branches, making commits.

Q
QA Testing

The Tester validates the changes — functional tests, edge cases, regression checks.

M
Ready to Merge

QA passed. This task needs your sign-off — review the PR, give feedback, and approve.

✓
Done

Merged and deployed. The task is finished.

Marketing & Community

The second tab runs its own five columns: Ideas, Research, Creating, Review and Published.

Board controls

Above the columns you'll find the repository this board is tracking, a count of how many items are ready to pick up, when the board last refreshed, a search box, a member filter, a sort control, and a Refresh button.

How It Works

AI agents handle most of the workflow automatically. The PM creates tasks, the Architect reviews them, the Engineer builds them, and the Tester validates them. Each agent picks up work, updates the status, and hands off to the next agent when done.

But they still need you for the final call. When a task reaches "Ready to Merge," it's your turn — review the pull request, give feedback, and merge when you're satisfied. By default, nothing merges without your sign-off.

Want less involvement? Turn on Auto-merge and let the team handle the full cycle — you can always review later.

Some tasks require your manual input — those appear in the To Do section so nothing falls through the cracks. You can also schedule recurring tasks to run on a regular cadence.

In Mission Control, click on any task to see all the details in a pop-up window — the full issue, PR, agent activity, and status history.

On Quick Start teams: you're viewing Operum-hosted issues, and the GitHub view isn't available — the repository lives in Operum's organisation rather than your own GitHub account. The board, the task pop-up and your agents all work normally. Connect your own repo if you want the work to live in your GitHub account. Either way your code is yours.

What's Next?