Ownership

Ownership shows who is responsible for moving work forward and who needs visibility.

Ownership fields

Ownership fields answer different questions. Owner shows accountability, assignees show who is doing the work, and reviewer shows who needs to make a decision or approve the next step.

Field	Meaning
Owner	The person accountable for moving the work forward.
Assignees	People doing or contributing to the work.
Reviewer	The person who needs to review the work.
Reporter	The person who reported the bug, issue, or request.
Teams	The teams responsible for the work or needing visibility.

Plan with ownership

Plans are stronger when every active item has an accountable person. Ownership fields support board grouping, unassigned work review, triage, standup prep, and blocker review.

The assignee filter on initiatives includes Unassigned, which helps isolate roadmap work that has not been assigned to anyone yet.

When work moves between people, update the owner or assignees instead of leaving the change buried in comments. Status tells the team where the work is; ownership tells them who can move it.

For formal access boundaries, see Permissions.