Using Links Explorer in Your Weekly PM Workflow
Links Explorer (LXP) is a powerful traceability and hierarchy visualization tool designed to give teams complete visibility into how their work items connect across projects. Whether you're dealing with feature development, customer support, audits, or risk tracking, LXP helps you uncover and understand relationships between items like stories, bugs, tests, and more β all in real time.
What Does LXP Help You Uncover?
At its core, LXP is built to answer three fundamental questions that every team asks:
What is linked to this work item β and why?
Where does this item sit in the broader workflow or structure?
If something changes here, what will it impact down the line?
By visualizing connections and dependencies, LXP helps you stay ahead of potential risks and make informed decisions faster.
Core Capabilities
LXP offers multiple ways to explore your work relationships:
The Traceability View gives you a clear end-to-end overview across all link types and projects. Whether items are related through features, bugs, tests, or compliance tasks, this view helps you uncover how each piece fits in.
The Hierarchy Tree provides a visual way to explore relationships. You can easily expand downstream connections to understand how changes ripple across the system.
Impact Analysis is built in β helping you identify missing or broken links, and trace how a single change can affect the rest of your work.
Powerful filters allow you to focus on what matters most β such as priority, link type, status, or issue type.
Need to share progress or status updates? With one-click export options, you can instantly generate reports that are ready for stakeholder presentations.
And with custom views, each team member can configure the visible fields on work item cards to see exactly the information thatβs most relevant to them.
Built to Support Your Workflow
Links Explorer is versatile enough to fit any team structure:
In product development, it helps map the journey from features and stories down to subtasks and tests.
For QA teams, it clarifies relationships between test cases, stories, and reported defects.
Support teams use LXP to track customer requests all the way through to resolution.
Compliance and audit teams rely on it to maintain full traceability in regulated environments.
And for change or risk management, LXP reveals the true impact of any modification across your ecosystem.