# Concepts and board columns

## What ampm is
ampm takes work from an idea to a reviewed pull request. Agents do the shaping and building, and you approve the decisions that matter in the Inbox.

## The two board surfaces
Roadmap is where work is decided, starting with "Roadmap". Factory is the mostly autonomous machine that plans, builds and ships what the roadmap hands it.

## Roadmap
Ideas wait here until you promote them. The column header runs "promoting", and Ideas grooming tidies the shelf ("grooming ideas").

## Triaging
New work is checked against existing work in "Deduping", then judged in "Admitting".

## Refining
Admitted work is shaped in "Refining" and split in "Breaking down". "Researching" is a detour taken only when open questions need research.

## Backlog (later)
The someday pool. Its header runs "batching", which plans the next two sprints, and "grooming".

## Soon
The sprint after next.

## Next
The sprint that rolls in first. "Pull in Next" on "Planning" moves it into the active sprint.

## Planning
A pulled sprint lands here: "Planning", then "Reviewing plan".

## Implementing
The build: "Ready", "Implementing", "Reviewing code", then "Testing".

## Review PR
The pull request is ready for review. "Simulating CI" appears only while CI is simulated.

## Landing
"Merging", then "Follow-ups" filed from the build.

## Queued
Finished work waits here until the release is approved.

## Releasing
Work being released to production.

## Done
Finished work. The Done review can dismiss cards from the board.

## Your tasks
Work only a person can do: "Your tasks", "Your tasks", "Your tasks".

## Parking lot
Work paused on an outside blocker until its re-entry condition is met.

## Parents
A task that was split rests here while its pieces carry the work.

## Inbox and Activity
The Inbox lists approvals waiting on you. Activity (`/<workspace>/timeline?view=everything`) shows what agents are running.