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What is the weighting difference between Epic/Story/Task
In Scrum here is the rough breakdown:
Epic - something so big it probably won't fit into a sprint, is not clearly understood in terms of customer requirements and should be broken down into stories. ...
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What is the weighting difference between Epic/Story/Task
Epic
An epic is like a super-story. When a story is too big to fit comfortably in a sprint and/or contains a lot of unknowns then it is usually better suited to be an epic. Epics are fine on the ...
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What is the weighting difference between Epic/Story/Task
In general there are no rules but what you make. Your Product Owner would define what this means to them, then document and share it.
If you look as some of the scaling frameworks available there is ...
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How can I create an Epic based on requirements following best practices?
There are two schools of thought about what an Epic is.
Some define an Epic as a large user story, often one that cannot be delivered in a single iteration. However, it can be placed and ordered in a ...
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Can a single user story be associated with multiple epics?
You cannot have an SSO API without underlying user management, that's a dependency, you need to do user management first.
Your story belongs to user management and should be done in that epic.
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Who tests what criteria for epics?
Make an effort to write independent smaller stories
...additional stories that she has no interest in nor does she
understand.
Don't write stories that the PO doesn't understand. If it is for ...
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Agile: Can Epics be time-based rather than feature-based?
There is some grey area here, but let's start with a clear answer to work from. Epics are a derived idea from User Stories - specifically an epic is just a big user story that you've broken down into ...
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How should large non-reducable tasks be handled in Scrum?
I'm not convinced that what you describe fits the notion of "large, non-reducible tasks". So far, I'm also not convinced that any piece of work is large or can't be reduced to something that ...
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How to get an Epic span multiple sprints?
You can assign the Epic's user stories to different sprints according to your needs. And when you browse the Epic you can see how its issues are distributed. Like the below example.
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What is the weighting difference between Epic/Story/Task
Epics – Large projects that entail many people over a long time.
Stories – Smaller projects within an Epic that must be completed before the Epic can be considered ‘Done’.
Tasks – The day-to-day ...
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Production bugs and epics in Jira
Outside of the Jira context, an Epic represents some kind of deliverable business value. An Epic is usually made up of good Stories, the full value is realized to the client and users after all of the ...
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How to eliminate wasted time / improve cadence on epic boundaries
I worked with an organisation that had a similar problem (although we were using Scrum rather than Kanban). What we found was that the work became very bitty towards the end of an epic and it was ...
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Managing small + large tasks on a big website with Scrum
How do we manage small tasks and big ideas in the same list?
In Jira Agile you can create epics to represent large stories. When you decompose this epic you can write several stories with the same ...
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How to implement Epics on Gitlab without Enterprise Edition?
An epic can be considered a group of issues.
Create an issue with your epic name, then create subtasks to this issue.
Go to the main issue to see the list of issues and whether they are finished or ...
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Is this a trick assignment with Release Planning ? Any comments is much appreciated
This scenario feels Waterfall because of the fixed scope of 8 epics and fixed schedule of 10/21/2021 so I wouldn’t say your feeling is off on that point. However, this is very much reality in many ...
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Is this a trick assignment with Release Planning ? Any comments is much appreciated
This is a weird test.
You have a fixed time, fixed goal and fixed resources. Nothing there is flexible. There is no decisions to be made here. You are not a project manager, you are a project ...
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How can I force an epic to have a limited/finite scope?
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Whenever possible, think of epics as placeholders for more detailed product backlog items, not as evergreen stories. It's better to add new stories to the Product Backlog as they are discovered ...
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Example epics for an mobile game
Since you've marked your question as Scrum, my advice to you is to have your Product Owner talk to the stakeholders. Both the ones sponsoring the project (in your case, the teacher), and the ones who (...
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Epics vs Projects vs something else
If you want multiple 'projects' to be on the same Scrum-board Sprint, then you can accomplish that by having a board with the JQL filter set to read from multiple JIRA projects (ie. 'project = ...
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How do you associate a bug identified after customer acceptance with the relevant epic?
This kind of traceability can become difficult and problematic as one backlog item or even epics modify the behavior of a previous one, but if you do want to link them, you can still use JIRA's "...
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Epics disappear from Scrum board
In Jira, Epics are containers for smaller units of work, which are often represented by other issue types like Story, Bug, and Task. Epics won't appear in the Backlog view in Jira, however they will ...
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How can I create an Epic based on requirements following best practices?
I just wanted to add a little to Thomas's excellent answer.
Epics are a solution to a problem. The problem is typically: "Our backlog is a bit cluttered and some stories are quite big".
You don't ...
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Can a single user story be associated with multiple epics?
The connection between an epic and user stories is one-to-many, therefore one user story can belong to only one epic. You can have the user story in the first epic and make the second epic dependent ...
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How can we track the status of very large, very broad user stories in our web development process?
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You can't manage or track epics like you have described in a meaningful way. In addition, user stories that lack context and a clearly-defined value consumer aren't generally useful for project ...
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How can we track the status of very large, very broad user stories in our web development process?
User stories are written from the point of view of the end user. An example user story might be something like:
As a website user I would like to see important information on the homepage so that I ...
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What is the weighting difference between Epic/Story/Task
A shorthand answer:
Epic: Generally takes more than one iteration to complete, contains more than one User Story & is written in a User Story format.
User Story: Generally is completed in one ...
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Should common functionalities be repeated as very similar stories within each context they're needed?
A user of the system can have multiple roles at the same time that form a hierarchy from a very generic role to a specific role.
For example, if a user is logged in as an Administrator, they will at ...
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User story for a requirement which generates files and sends to external system
There are two questions here: how can we represent this in a user story and how do I break it up? Because nothing in agile or scrum forces us to use user stories (unless you're practicing XP ...
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Jira Project vs Epics vs Categories
So I see a mashup of terms from traditional and Agile worlds. The answer below assumes you are using Scrum.
Product = Project
For your project, create a project in JIRA. Everything related to your ...
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How to implement Epics on Gitlab without Enterprise Edition?
Unfortunately, Epics were introduced in GitLab Ultimate 10.2 and are not a part of the free tier. That said, our team has used the label feature in free rather effectively, much as you've described ...
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