For a content production workflow, you primarily want to follow these guidelines:
Set up the statuses of your project in Hive to reflect the stages that your content goes through
Use labels to tag which type of content it is
Add a custom field to include the design asset link
Here is a view of the template in Status View, with the custom statuses: Content Ideas, On Deck, Outline/Research, Writing, Editing, Promotion.
You can add a new, custom status to your project by clicking the 'Add a new status' option in the Status view.
Labels are used to tag the content type. This is helpful not only to organize information and segment by content type (see: label view!) but also to aid in reporting across projects with summary views:
Additionally, custom fields can be used to capture asset links or other information that you would like to be easily accessible.
You can find more inspiration for managing a content workflow by downloading our Content Production template.