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title: "Concept of a box"
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> Macro (aura-html)

## What is a box?

The concept of boxes makes project and project portfolio management as easy as possible. With boxes, you can group all your projects, products, teams, or portfolios just like you would organize your photos into various collections. In combination with advanced filtering options, this approach will provide you with unprecedented clarity and control over every undertaking you're responsible for, even if you manage thousands of them.

You can use boxes to organize tasks in Jira and other connected platforms. Two basic principles apply to boxes:

- There is no limit to the number of boxes that can be maintained using the app.
- There is no limit on the number of objects (tasks, projects, versions, etc.) a box can hold. The scope of the box can include any set of Jira issues.

With boxes, you can manage the following areas:

- Scope (Box configuration and App administration)
- Dependencies between tasks (Gantt module)
- Allocated resources (Gantt module)
- Key deadlines/milestones (markers)

## Box within a box

The brand new concept of boxes within boxes lets you easily, with a single click, narrow down the scope of your work to the desired granularity level without losing any features offered by different modules.

## Manage boxes and box types

Thanks to the [box types](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BGdcDRAFT/pages/2613548457), you will save a lot of time as you configure a box type only once. When the preconfigured setting of a given box type fails to match
 an unusual or more complex business scenario, you can customize it freely or create a new one from scratch.

In BigGantt, you can have four box types created. You can use the following predefined box types:

- **Agile project - **A built-in type that is recommended for projects run in Agile methodology
- **Iteration - **A built-in type that helps to schedule work iteratively
- **Program - **Basic Box type that lets you divide the work into lower levels, such as Iterations, Stages, or Program Increments
- **Stage - **A built-in type that helps to organize classic project scope into stages

![Box types available in BigGantt.](media://1ef82e86-f193-42b4-bc80-b31f897f3a7f)