Organize your Hierarchy for software development

Your ClickUp Workspace represents your entire company and all of its departments.

The flexible Hierarchy permits you to set up your Workspace in several ways. Below are our recommendations for software development.

Get started now using our software development template!

Spaces

Create one Software Development Space to hold all of your Folders.

You can create views at this level to search, filter, sort, and group tasks for a high-level overview.

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Product team Folders

Create one Folder for each product or engineering team. If the team uses an Agile workflow, create a Sprint Folder for them.

In the template, there is a Kanban and Sprint Folder you can use as a starting point.

We recommend creating the following Lists in each team Folder to categorize your tasks:

  • Projects
  • Kanban, if your team uses the Kanban methodology
  • Sprint, if your team uses the agile Scrum methodology
  • Backlog
  • Bugs

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Other Folders and Lists

In addition to your product team Folders, we recommend creating the following Folders and Lists or a variation of them:

Folder Description Recommended Lists
Roadmap & Backlog A Folder for your roadmap, master backlog, and master defects List.
  • Product Roadmap
  • Weekly Execution
  • Product Master Backlog
  • Defects Master List
Design A Folder for your design team and their work.
  • Design Tasks
QA A Folder for your QA team and their testing.
  • Test Scenarios & Cases
  • Test Runs
Technical Support A Folder for your technical support team to investigate bugs, limitations, and workarounds.
  • Reported Bugs
  • Limitations & Workarounds

Use Tasks In Multiple Lists to add tasks to several Lists!