Most teams track improvement tasks in a spreadsheet, on a whiteboard, in a separate project management tool, or not at all. These tasks are often lost or forgotten, or become a collective assignment that then belongs to nobody. The problem though isn’t the task, it’s the disconnect. When a Kaizen item or improvement opportunity lives in a separate system, it loses context. You know generally what needs to change, but not exactly what, where, or when. Following through on it becomes harder than it should be.
Issues in Threaded solve this by giving you a lightweight task management system built directly into your organization. Every issue can be linked to a Work Instruction, process node, part, or tool via @mentions, meaning your improvement backlog isn’t floating in a spreadsheet. Instead it’s anchored to the process it’s meant to improve.
#Creating an Issue
Click Create Issue in the top right of the Issues page, or create one directly from a process node. Each issue includes:
- Description — what needs to be done
- Type — categorize the work: Design, Parts, Tooling, Process, People, or Other
- Status — Not started, In process, Blocked, Archived, or Done
- Priority — High, Medium, Low, or None
- Owner — assign it to a team member
- Impact Amount — optionally quantify the expected value of the improvement
- Due Date — set a target completion date
- Tags — group the issue with others by project or topic, such as “Line 3 changeover” or “Q1 cost-down”
- Attached To — link the issue to a specific node or area of your process
- Notes — add context, findings, or instructions
- Media — attach images, documents, or other reference files to make the problem clear
- Comments — collaborate with your team directly on the issue no matter where you are
#Viewing and Managing Issues
The Issues page gives you a full view of everything in flight across your organization. Filter by My Issues, Unassigned, or Overdue to focus on what needs attention, and use Filter by tag to narrow the list to one project or topic. Click the three-dot menu on the left of any row to duplicate, mark an issue complete, or open its details to edit the full issue without leaving the page.
Issues with an Impact Amount and Due Date give you a clear picture of what’s at stake and what’s falling behind, which is useful for prioritization and for making the case for improvement investments.
#Grouping Issues with Tags
An issue’s type says what kind of work it is. Tags say which effort it belongs to. A changeover project, a cost-down push, or a supplier review usually spans design, tooling, and process issues, and tags keep that work together without changing how each issue is categorized.
#Managing Your Organization’s Tags
Your organization keeps one shared list of tags, so the same project isn’t spelled three different ways. Editors and owners manage it on Improve › Tags:
- Click Add tag, enter a name, and pick a color. Names are unique within your organization regardless of capitalization, so “Line 3” and “line 3” can’t both exist.
- Use the edit button next to a tag to rename or recolor it. Every issue with that tag shows the change right away.
- Use the delete button to remove a tag. Threaded tells you how many issues use it before you confirm. Deleting a tag removes it from those issues; the issues themselves stay.
Everyone else in the organization can see the list and how many issues use each tag, but can’t change it. Click a tag’s issue count to open Improvements filtered to that tag.
#Tagging an Issue
Use the Tags field to pick one or more tags from your organization’s list, either when you create an issue or later from its details. Anyone who can edit the issue can tag it, operators included. New tags can’t be typed into an issue; they’re added on Improve › Tags first, by an editor or owner. This keeps the list curated. On an existing issue, picks are saved together when you close the tag list. When you create an issue, they’re saved with it when you click Create Issue.
Tags show as chips in the issue list’s Tags column and under the title on each card in the grid view. When an issue has more tags than fit, the rest collapse into a “+N” chip; hover over it or tap it to see their names.
#Filtering by Tag
On the Issues page (Improve in the new interface), open Filter by tag next to the My Issues, Unassigned, and Overdue filters and choose one or more tags. The list (table or grid) shows issues that have any of the selected tags, and the filter works together with the tab you’re on, so you can see, for example, only the overdue issues for one project. Remove a tag’s chip from the filter to widen the list again. If no issue has the selected tags, the list says so and offers Clear tag filter.
The selected tags are saved in the page’s address, so you can bookmark a project’s issues or share the link with your team and they’ll see the same filtered list.
#The Value of Connecting Issues to Process
The real power of Issues is the connection to your value stream. When an issue is attached to a node or procedure, it stays visible in context as your team works on that part of the process. Improvement ideas don’t get lost, and when the AI Assistant surfaces an opportunity or proposes a change, it can create and assign an issue directly, keeping the full loop from insight to execution inside Threaded.