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What features are

Features are the options you are choosing between: product capabilities, initiatives, programs, budget lines. In a Weighted project they are rated on how much they deliver each need (Coverage); in a Direct project they carry a priority of their own.
Your project may call these initiatives or programs. See Vocabulary.

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Adding a feature

  1. Open the Features tab
  2. Click Add feature
  3. Enter a title and an optional description
  4. Weighted project: optionally pick a parent feature, or tick the box that makes this one a group
  5. Enter an effort. Weighted project: tick Must-have if the feature is non-negotiable. Direct project: choose a priority, must, should or could
  6. Save
Effort is a positive number in the project’s unit, hours or points, set in Project Settings under Roadmap Planning. It is what Analysis divides value by, and what the Roadmap fits against your capacity. Must-have (Weighted) and must (Direct) mean the same thing: this feature goes into the plan first, whatever its score. Use it for regulatory work, hard dependencies and commitments already made. The Roadmap tab can also mark a deferred feature as a must-have with Force into plan. In a Weighted project, link each feature to the needs it delivers on the Coverage tab, where every feature’s scores sit side by side. A feature with no link yet says None - excluded on its card; click it to jump to that feature on Coverage.

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Groups

A feature can be a group: a parent that holds sub-items, such as a program with its projects or an epic with its stories. A group has no effort and no coverage of its own; its children carry both. Groups give the outputs their structure: Analysis, Roadmap and the Decision Report name each item’s parent, and Analysis also colours rows by group and offers a quick filter per group. Create a group by adding a feature and marking it as a group, or by setting a parent on an existing feature. Any feature can be moved under a parent later.

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Importing from a spreadsheet

Click Import on the Features tab to bring in a backlog from an .xlsx or .csv file, one row per feature.
  1. Upload: pick the file, or download a sample template first to see the expected shape
  2. Map columns: Weivo detects headers such as title, name, effort, points, estimate, priority, MoSCoW, must-have and parent, and lets you correct the mapping
  3. Review: check the rows, then import
Imported features arrive without coverage links; fill those in on the Coverage tab. On the Free plan a project holds 20 features, and the review step says up front how many rows will import if the file has more.

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Exporting the project

Every output tab carries Export project data, which downloads one .xlsx workbook for the whole project: the ranked scores, the roadmap plan, the allocation and the per-stakeholder breakdown. The file is identical whichever tab you press it from, and it can be re-imported as a feature list.

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Editing and deleting

Click a feature’s pencil to edit it. Deleting a feature removes its coverage links and drops it from every output. This cannot be undone.

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Tips

  • Effort does not need to be precise. Relative sizes are what the ranking and the roadmap use, so a rough number on every feature beats an exact number on some.
  • Ten to thirty features is where the outputs are most useful. Below that the ranking is obvious; above it, consider groups.
  • The assistant can propose features with efforts and coverage scores from a description, and its scores stay marked as suggestions until you keep them. See AI in Weivo.