Home and Needs you

Your starting point: what needs a decision, what’s moving, and what Iron Octopus caught.

Home is where you start each day. It shows the decisions only you can make, the work moving on its own, and what Iron Octopus caught before it reached your code. If Needs you is empty, nothing is waiting on you.

What should we build or fix next?

The box at the top is where new work starts. Describe a feature or a problem, then click Draft a feature or Report a defect. See start with an idea.

Needs you

Each card is one feature waiting for a decision. The most urgent come first: anything stuck, then reviews, then questions, then features ready to move on.

Label	What it means	What to do
Failed or Stuck	Work stopped and automatic retries didn’t fix it.	Click Ask why to find out, then retry or open the feature. See when work fails.
Review requested	A work item is waiting for a person’s review.	Click Open review. See review and rework.
Needs input	Iron Octopus needs something from you, such as acceptance criteria.	Open the feature and do what it asks.
Ready to build	The plan is ready. Its recorded assumptions are listed on the card.	Check the assumptions, then click Start building.
Ready for acceptance	Every work item is done. You only see this if your rules turn off the automatic move.	Click Move to acceptance.
Ready to release	Every required acceptance criterion is met.	Click Release feature.

Use the filter at the top of the list to see one kind at a time.

In progress

Features in Building or Acceptance, each with a progress bar and a short status, such as “3 of 7 work items done · 1 running” or “11 of 12 acceptance criteria met”. View all work in progress opens the detailed list. See work in progress.

Caught in review

What review found in Iron Octopus’s own work and sent back for rework in the last 14 days, with all-time totals underneath. See review and rework.

Recently released

Features released in the last 14 days, each with the date and how many acceptance criteria were met.

Defect reports

Open defect reports across your projects, each with its severity. See defect reports.

Engineering detail

Technical readers can switch on Engineering detail to see more, such as review attempt numbers. It’s off by default.