What story statuses and priorities are available?

Q: What story statuses and priorities are available?

Stories have five statuses: Backlog, To Do, In Progress, In Review, and Done. There are four priorities: Critical, High, Medium, and Low. New stories start as Backlog and Medium.

Statuses and priorities in LocalPM are fixed lists. You can't add, rename, or remove them.

Statuses

Status	What it usually means	On the Kanban board?
Backlog	Captured but not yet ready or scheduled	No
To Do	Ready and committed, not started	Yes
In Progress	Someone is actively working on it	Yes
In Review	Work is finished and being checked	Yes
Done	Complete	Yes

New stories start in Backlog. The board has four columns, one for each status from To Do to Done, so a story needs to be moved to To Do before it appears there.

You can change a story's status in two ways:

Drag its card between columns on the Board, with a mouse, touch, or the keyboard
Open it, from the Backlog view or by clicking its card on the Board, and change the Status field

Priorities

Critical: needs attention now; shown with a red marker
High: important and should come soon; orange
Medium: the default for new stories; yellow
Low: nice to have; green

On the board, each card shows its priority as a small colored dot. In the Backlog list, priority appears as a colored badge.

Filtering by status and priority

In the Backlog view, use the Status and Priority dropdowns above the list to show only matching stories, for example all Critical bugs, or everything In Review. Choose "All Statuses" or "All Priorities" to clear a filter. Both filters combine with the Search stories box.

Seeing the big picture

The Reports view includes a distribution by status and a distribution by priority for the whole project, and the project Overview shows the status breakdown too. See What reports does LocalPM include?

For advice on using priority well, read Priority Fields That Make Triage Decisions Obvious.