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Reorder work item sidebar widgets

Summary

Reorder the work item sidebar widgets to group similar elements and align with order elsewhere.

New order Current order Legacy order
  1. Assignees
  2. Labels
  3. Weight
  4. Milestone
  5. Iteration
  6. Dates
  7. Health status
  8. Parent^
  9. Participants (incoming MR)
  1. Assignees
  2. Labels
  3. Dates
  4. Milestone
  5. Weight
  6. Iteration
  7. Health status (not on tasks)
  8. Parent
  9. Participants (incoming MR)
  1. Assignees
  2. Parent (Epic)
  3. Labels
  4. Milestone
  5. Iteration
  6. Weight
  7. Due date
  8. Time tracking
  9. Health status
  10. Confidentiality
  11. Participants

A primary factor in the proposed order is the logical grouping of Milestone, Iteration, Dates, and Health status — the first 3 relate to scheduling, while Health Status represents the likelihood of delivery based on that schedule. Keeping these together makes it easier to scan and understand the expected delivery.

Assignees and Labels remain at the top as critical information. Status, once added, will be above Assignees as a key attribute (removed from the metadata row below title as it will be an editable field). Weight — representing an estimate of the work to deliver the item — could go above or below the timebox block, but fit closer to labels as a tool for describing the work.

Edited by Nick Leonard