In general, you'd plan really big ideas at the Portfolio Level, but make sure you refine these to the level of PBI/User Story/Requirement/Issue. These are the ordered (I don't like the word prioritized) list of items we call the Product Backlog in Scrum., Clarity in backlog items translates to fewer surprises, better prioritization, and smoother development cycles. When a task lacks clarity, it can disrupt workflows, resulting in missed deadlines and less effective work. Benefits of Clarity Through Refinement: Aligns Team Expectations: Everyone knows what they’re working toward., From a project management perspective, you can use work items to provide metrics about the status of your project. Associate source code change sets with work items so that users can navigate between a work item and code. You can associate source code change sets from the Pending Changes view. Add an approval to a work item., Azure DevOps provides four default Work Item Processes : Basic – A simple process with only three Work Item types: Epics, Issues, and Tasks. Agile – Designed for Agile methodologies, including Epics, Features, User Stories, and Tasks. Scrum – A process tailored for Scrum teams, featuring Epics, Features, Product Backlog Items (PBIs), and Tasks., Choose Basic when your team wants the simplest model that uses Issue, Task, and Epic work item types to track work. Tasks support tracking Remaining Work. Agile. Choose Agile when your team uses Agile planning methods, including Scrum, and tracks development and test activities separately., Connecting Agile work to Flow Items becomes challenging without this foundation, making it harder to measure and improve value flow. This article simplifies these concepts to help teams and leaders align Agile work with Flow Metrics, enabling better visibility and greater efficiency..