Questions tagged [epics]
A big user story that takes longer than a single sprint/iteration, and thus is broken down into smaller user stories. Typically represent a high-level feature of the developed product.
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How to organize Bugs in Jira Cloud in a big project?
I am a project coordinator in a big team (18 people) for a big project. We have a problem organizing bugs in Jira Cloud. First of all, we have a lot of bugs: on stage, on prod and bugs that come from ...
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How to add up all the tickets in an epic
Have you ever found yourself manually adding up the story points of all the tickets in an epic, only to realize that many of the tickets do not have an estimated sprint value?
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Jira: How to get a list of all epics with how many issues each has?
I want to see a list of all epics in a project ranked by the number of issues in that epic. Is that possible with JQL or otherwise?
We are using Jira Cloud.
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How to create a report for an epic - issues created, added, removed, and closed as done?
I am trying to create a report (either Jira or eazyBI) that shows entries within an epic or initiative on a monthly basis - the entries newly created, removed, and closed as done.
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What is above Epic?
We are using Jira for our projects.
Standard hierarchy is Epic -> Story/Task -> SubTask.
We would like to have deeper hierarchy.
Atlassian is suggesting (link) Theme -> Initiative -> Epic ...
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How to use velocity when PBIs are so large
So, I'm very junior and am wanting to learn PM stuff, and I'm encountering a strange issue in my team.
We want to use velocity as a way to see whether we're improving or not. However, my understanding ...
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How to best integrate the Product Manager workflow with the Engineer Team?
My team is using Shortcut (formely Clubhouse) for sometime now, and that is really all over the place. I've taken upon myself the resposability to organize that chaos.
One of the main complaints from ...
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Use of sub tasks vs epics in Jira
I cannot create any sub tasks for a given task/user story in my current Jira version. However, I am struggling to identify whether I am missing any functionality that cannot be achieved by creating an ...
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Can I put user stories with different end users under one epic?
My project team has identified personas with different needs and behaviors within our customer journey, and we're translating their needs into user stories. My understanding is that epic and user ...
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When T-Shirt sizing Epics, should the size be based on 1 person's capacity or the teams capacity?
My company wants the team to estimate (via t-shirt sizes) Features/Epics. When we attempt to do this, I often get asked "is this estimate based on 1 person or the entire team working on the ...
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What is the Product Owner's role/responsibility in a proof of concept with an external vendor?
The team is conducting a proof of concept related to checking the capabilities of an external software solution to be added/integrated into our platform. Of course, the PO needs to have all Epics and ...
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Is this a trick assignment with Release Planning ? Any comments is much appreciated [closed]
I am fairly new to PM world. I have been given an assignment/quiz but I am struggling with this because, it doesn't seem like an agile project rather Waterfall project with Agile terms thrown in and ...
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How should large non-reducable tasks be handled in Scrum?
How are tasks that do not fit in a Sprint handled in Scrum?
I see the benefit in delivering incremental value each Sprint, but I don't see how all tasks can be reduced to take no longer than a week or ...
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How do you represent issues without Epics in Jira Roadmap (Jira Classic & Next Gen)
Ability to represent issues without Epics (be that a task type or bug type) in Jira Roadmaps.
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Agile Storyboarding impact on a Business Quarter
a) We have total 6 Sprints constituting a business quarter.
b) We are releasing every 2 Sprints (or earlier) by means of CI/CD.
c) We have to deliver a new feature in the next quarter for which we ...
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How can I create an Epic based on requirements following best practices?
I am trying to learn Kanban and Scrum and for that, I have a sample mobile app for the gym in mind with the following ideas:
User should be able to create a workout plan.
User should be able to ...
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Epics and Story Points
If we have a User Story that is determined to be an Epic, and we vertically slice the functionality into its logical parts and estimate the resulting User Stories and Tasks, is it best practice to ...
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Epics disappear from Scrum board
I have started a project, which should be done with Scrum. So, I am adding Epics to Backlog in Jira, and they disappear. How can I show Epics in Backlog? Thanks.
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Adding n-number of due date fields and descriptions to Epics and Stories
In an existing project, the team is attaching tasks directly to Epics. I would like to introduce stories to the workflow and n-number of key dates to either the Epics or features.
For this, I would ...
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Correct Work Item Hierarchy in Azure Dev Ops
We are currently switching from our so-and-so somewhat agile management approach to Scrum and I as a developer have a hard time understanding, what comes first in Azure DevOps as the top level item.
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Some of the epics are shown on the active Sprint view, I'm not able to remove them
For some reason some of the epics are displayed as swimlanes on active Sprint view. Board filter, sorting config are fine.
Any ideas?
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Understanding the relationship between Product Release Plan, MVP, and Roadmap in an Agile environment?
What is the relationship between a "Product Release Plan", a "Minimum Viable Product", and a "Roadmap" in an Agile environment? How are they different? How are they similar? How do they interact?
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How do I frame epics?
I'm working on an application to help create a grocery list based on the meals (and their ingredients and quantity) that the user provides. So far, the epics that I've come up with are:
1.) Research (...
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Is it wrong to put all projects in one VSTS project and then create nested epics
I had been reading on structuring VSTS. The guideline on structure of projects isn't very clear.
Our scenario is that we have lots of projects and only a small team of 3 developers, 2 testers and 2 ...
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Agile: Can Epics be time-based rather than feature-based?
For example, if you're building a chat app, having epics be the stages in a project:
Phase 1 - Beta
Phase 2 - Launch
vs. features
Messaging
Sign-Up
The goal of an epic is to capture a large body ...
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How to implement Epics on Gitlab without Enterprise Edition?
We have used Gitlab for 4 years now in our organization, and are growing to the point where we are implementing Agile and trying to follow Epics, Features, User Stories, and Tasks.
We are struggling ...
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Production bugs and epics in Jira
We are trying to organize our epics in a better way. In the past, the epics remained indefinitely open on Jira. Every production support/bug ticket will be added to the exsiting epic. However, since ...
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Jira Project vs Epics vs Categories
Hi I am bit confused with the term project. Right now i am working as a project Manager in a startup firm where we have one prime client with a full time dedicated work and our product is an online ...
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User story for a requirement which generates files and sends to external system
Am new to Agile and need some help in identifies user stories for a given feature. The feature is "application should generate a delimiter space file which the fields given in the field specification ...
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How do you associate a bug identified after customer acceptance with the relevant epic?
In my understanding there are two kinds of bugs:
Bugs that are identified before an acceptance by the client
Bugs that are identified afterwards
In JIRA I think it is necessary to associate bug type ...
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Reopen an epic after a feature request?
You are developing a software based on various modules. Each module is considered an Epic in JIRA. When the module is accepted by the client, the PM closes the Epic. After some time the client demands ...
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Should common functionalities be repeated as very similar stories within each context they're needed?
Let's say for a system, there are several stories that would be repeating all throughout but in different contexts.
E.g. Search
"As a [insert role], I want to search through a data list so that I ...
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How to get an Epic span multiple sprints?
While setting up my Jira's project, I struggle to make an Epic span multiple sprints.
In other words, I expect an Epic (a complete feature) to be associated to multiple sprints.
The idea is that I ...
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In Agile methodology, Should epics be named after big tasks/activities encountered in user journey?
Should epics be named after big tasks/ Steps in user journey ? or Should they be just big features which can't be implemented in a Single Sprint?
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How can I force an epic to have a limited/finite scope?
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I'm working for a web development agency. I take responsibility for managing the work that the developers in our company do for our client. We're using JIRA for task management.
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User's of VersionOne - How do you handle requests that impact a current Epic/Product?
Currently, my effort has a few Epics in flight. One of the Epic's is servicing or enhancing a product in production. We are starting to use the request feature in VersionOne to intake these ...
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Organizing testing in a Scrum(ish) development project
First: I'm trying this forum, even though this is more a test management than project management question. The test/QA exchange seems to be focused on technical, hands-on test questions and issues.
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Example epics for an mobile game
I want to define epics for the following project: "a mobile application which makes you discover a city through a detective game".
The game basically needs to display your position on a map to get ...
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Epics vs Projects vs something else
We have just started using JIRA and I'm setting it up now.
We have a huge product and an external team which develops and supports the product.
Our product involves a lot of projects. The ...
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Epics and stories prioritization in JIRA
In this answer, an epic-story structure is suggested. I like this approach and I'm trying to utilize it. But, the problems how to handle priorities. More specifically, assume I have two epics (e1 and ...
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How to eliminate wasted time / improve cadence on epic boundaries
Our work is organized around epics, which are the unit of business decision making and prioritization. Each represents a higher-level business feature or technical task. Epics are divided into user ...
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How can we track the status of very large, very broad user stories in our web development process?
I'm looking into using user stories for our next web project. For example:
There will be a homepage with some information and the latest projects for the client.
How could you turn this into one ...
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What is the weighting difference between Epic/Story/Task
I am slightly confused between the three.
From my understanding:
Epic - Create a web site (T shirt size) (L)
Story - Create the Home page (1 point)
Task - Create a button on the home page that is ...
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Can a single user story be associated with multiple epics?
For example, we have two epics, 'User Management' and 'SSO API', which are broken down appropriately. A user story for lost password functionality is created, but the story is relevant to both epics.
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How can I create a visual timeline of User Stories / Epics from an Excel spreadsheet?
Ideally, I'd like to use an Excel spreadsheet to generate the following for me from columns of "User Story", "Start", and "End". Even if it didn't take it from the spreadsheet and I had to enter all ...
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Who tests what criteria for epics?
So our product owner is in a position where she feels encumbered by the decomposition of a large user story:
Product owner presents a story
Engineers determine that it is too big for a single story
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Managing small + large tasks on a big website with Scrum
We're a small team of 4 developers who manage one large website and a group of minisites/mobile apps. We've used JIRA/Agile and Scrum, as best we can, to manage the workflow for the last few months.
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Example epics and themes for website project
Can there be any crossover between themes and the epics/stories inside them.
For example, i think 'Frontend' would make a good theme for a website project. However some stories within this theme ...
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Is it accepted practice to group user stories by epics in the sprint backlog?
I have a sprint backlog with about 50 user stories that can be broken down into 7 epics. However, each epic is only partially represented in the current sprint.
For example, one of the epics is ...
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Can story points remain constant between the initial estimate and later planning sessions?
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We have a bunch of epic stories.
We have a fixed term to do the project.
We have to get approval from a project board.
We don't know the velocity of the project team yet.
The project ...
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