Components let you organize your product backlog into areas, themes, or teams. They contain your Discoveries, which are product opportunities and ideas to explore and prioritize.

You can have multiple levels of Components and Sub-Components to represent your product's hierarchy.

Components can be easily accessed from the left navigation bar in the Product section.

Since Components are the backbone of your product's organization, they are mutually exclusive, and one Discovery can only belong to one single Component.

The way you should organize Components depends on how your products and teams are already organized.

Here are some generic examples of categorization that you can use to organize your Components:

Here are real-life examples inspired by our customers and ourselves.

At Harvestr, we organized our Components around our main product areas and Jobs-to-be-done. We have Components for Feedback, Integrations, Discovery, etc.

We created a Transversal Component for opportunities that cannot be assigned to a single Component.

We also created a Competition Component, where we centralized all the feedback comparing us to our competitors to better understand our strengths and weaknesses.

We kept our hierarchy as simple as possible with only 1 level of Sub-Components.

When working on a new opportunity related to one of those categories, we create a new Discovery and assign it to the corresponding Component.

An online bank with an international footprint could be organized with one first-level component per country due to specific user experience and regulatory constraints, as well as sub-components representing product areas.

A CRM software company could organize top-level Components based on its main personas because each persona experiences the product differently and has access to different features. It could also have a Component for integration requests with other systems, as well a a Component to centralize product growth experiments.

You can create your own Components using the "Add component" button at the bottom of your Components list.
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To get even more organized, add Sub-Components to your components.

To edit a Component's name or to delete it, open the Component's settings by clicking on its name in the upper section.
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Discoveries always belong to Components or Sub-Components. The are two ways to add a new Discovery to a Component.

The first way to create a Discovery is to go to the Component where you want to store it, using the navigation bar on the left. Once you are in the right Component, click on the "New" button above the list of your Discoveries.
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When you open the feedback categorization pop-up in your inbox, you can create a new Discovery in the Component of your choice by clicking on the "+" button that appears when you hover over the Component's name.

Give your new Discovery a title, press Enter, and the feedback you highlighted in the message will be linked to the Discovery.

​If you want to know more about Discoveries, look at this article.  
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