# Initiative

Initiatives help you track major projects and features, ensuring visibility into ongoing work. With Initiatives, you can quickly identify at-risk tasks and take corrective action before delays occur. Whether managing a project, epic, or story, you can customize Initiatives to gain full insight into cross-team progress.

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### Work Progress&#x20;

Work Progress provides a percentage breakdown of Issue tickets or Story points in an initiative based on their current workflow status. Typo categorizes issues using your JIRA status mapping, displaying three primary status groups by default:

1. Open&#x20;
2. In Progress&#x20;
3. Done&#x20;

These categories can be customized to align with your internal processes.

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### Issues Live Status&#x20;

Issues Live Status reflects the real-time status of all Issue tickets and Story points within an initiative. It also calculates the average time each ticket or Story point has spent in its current status.Issues are plotted on a graph based on their status. The system determines how long each ticket has remained in its state and provides an average aging time for better tracking.&#x20;

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### Work Allocation&#x20;

Work Allocation provides a breakdown of completed Issue tickets across various categories, helping teams assess how development efforts align with business goals. Categories can be defined based on:

1. Issue types&#x20;
2. Issue titles (keywords at the start, end, or within the title)&#x20;
3. Custom fields/labels (specific keywords), Typo automatically classifies both historical and future

Issue tickets according to these categories. If a ticket has multiple labels, it will be assigned to all relevant categories.

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### Work Contribution&#x20;

Work Contribution highlights the percentage of work completed by each developer, helping teams track individual contributions to the initiative’s overall progress.

By leveraging these metrics, teams can maintain full transparency into their initiatives and make data-driven decisions to optimize project success. 🚀

Read more about setting up an initiative [here](/typo-help-docs/configurations/initiative.md)


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