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Glossary

Atlas terms and what they mean.

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.

Last updated October 1, 2026