- Acceptance criteria
- What must be true for a ticket to be considered done. Plain text on the ticket page.
- Active sprint
- The one sprint currently running on a Scrum board. Its tickets appear on the Board tab.
- Backlog
- Tickets on a Scrum board that aren't in a sprint yet.
- Blocked
- A daily update that lists blockers, or a ticket in a stage whose name contains "blocked".
- Board
- A set of tickets within a project, run as Kanban or Scrum, with its own members and workflow.
- Completion stage
- The workflow stage that counts tickets as done. One per board.
- Compliance
- Submitted daily updates as a share of expected ones.
- Default board
- A project's main board, normally its first.
- Default stage
- The workflow stage where new tickets start.
- Epic
- A large ticket that groups related stories, tasks and bugs.
- Health score
- A 0–100 score for a project, based on updates, team, status and blockers.
- Kanban
- A board where tickets flow continuously through columns, with no sprints.
- Organization
- Your company's Atlas workspace. Also called a company.
- Project code
- A short identifier such as TS-004, used in ticket keys.
- Project manager (PM)
- The person who manages a project, with extra rights over its boards and tickets.
- Reports To
- A person's manager. It builds the Org Chart.
- Scrum
- A board where work is planned in time-boxed sprints from a backlog.
- Series
- A recurring meeting that generates occurrences on a schedule.
- Standup Review
- Start Standup's full-screen, one-person-at-a-time view of daily updates.
- Story points
- A relative estimate of a ticket's effort.
- Ticket key
- A ticket's identifier: the project code plus a number, e.g. TS-004-12.
- View-only workspace
- A workspace whose free month ended or whose plan was cancelled. It can be read but not changed.
- Work log
- Time recorded against a ticket.
- Workflow
- A board's ordered list of stages.
Glossary
Atlas terms and what they mean.
Last updated October 1, 2026