Projects
Guides
New to Projects? Start here:
- Your First Project: create a project and understand how the stages fit together
- From Idea to Spec for PMs: write your PRD, generate requirements, resolve blockers
- Designing the Experience for Designers: create mockups and flows
- Building and Shipping for Engineers: plan, develop, and test
- Tracking Delivery for anyone: monitor progress and readiness
What is a Project?
A Project is a shared space where your team plans, specs, designs, builds, and tracks a single initiative. Everything lives in one place: documents, requirements, mockups, engineering plans, and progress tracking.
Project Types
ProdE offers two project types:
Simple Projects
Lightweight containers for organizing documents and basic tasks. Use these for quick initiatives that don't need the full planning lifecycle.
Full Projects
Full projects guide your team through a structured delivery process with AI-powered assistance at every stage, from writing your PRD to tracking development progress. The Planning Stages page walks through this in detail.
| Capability | Simple | Full |
|---|---|---|
| Document management | Yes | Yes |
| Basic organization | Yes | Yes |
| AI-powered planning stages | No | Yes |
| Workstreams & requirements | No | Yes |
| Blocker analysis | No | Yes |
| Pipeline tracking & metrics | No | Yes |
| Artefact generation (mockups, diagrams) | No | Yes |
A Simple project can be upgraded to a Full project at any time. This is irreversible. Once converted, the project gains all Full capabilities. Only the project creator or a team owner can convert a project.
Creating a Project
Any team member can create a project by specifying:
- Name: a descriptive name for your initiative (up to 200 characters)
- Description: an optional summary of the project's purpose (up to 1000 characters)
- Project Type: Simple or Full
Projects are created as private by default.
Collaborating with Your Team
Projects are designed for collaboration. You can share them in two ways:
- Share with specific people: grant view access to individual team members on a private project
- Make it public: make the project visible to everyone on your team, ideal for open initiatives that need broad awareness
Project creators and team owners can manage sharing settings.
Roles & Permissions
| Role | What They Can Do |
|---|---|
| Project Creator | Full management: edit, share, change visibility, delete |
| Team Owner | Administrative access to all projects, including private ones |
| Shared User | View the project and its contents |
| Team Member | Create projects, view public projects, access shared projects |
Deleting a Project
Projects support soft deletion: deleting a project marks it as inactive without permanently removing data, providing a safety net against accidental deletion.
Using Projects with Your Coding Agent
Connect ProdE's MCP server to your editor so your coding agent can read requirements, update dev status, edit specs, and log decisions without leaving your IDE. It works in Cursor, GitHub Copilot (VS Code), Windsurf, and Claude Code.
Reference
For detailed reference on specific concepts:
- Planning Stages: full stage-by-stage reference
- Workstreams & Requirements: requirement lifecycle and fields
- Blockers & Issues: blocker categories and severities
- Documents, Artefacts & Bugs: document tags, artefact types, bug tracking
- Pipeline Tracking: how metrics are calculated
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Your First Project
This guide walks you through creating a project in ProdE and taking it from an idea to a shipped feature. By the end, you'll understand how the pieces fit together and which parts matter for your…