Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for viewing and managing work items. A work item management application is provided to allow a user to view and manage a plurality of work items from a single view. An interactive viewing feature is provided to allow the user to interactively view complex relationships between selected groups of work items. When the user selects all of the work items of a particular type in a work item group, the orphaned items are visually indicated. A many-to-many linker feature allows the user to create many-to-many relationships between a selected group of the work items in a single operation.