Strategy
Epic
Plain English
It is a bigger piece of work that needs splitting into smaller parts before it can move.
Definition
An epic is a large body of work that can be broken down into smaller, manageable pieces.
In practice
Used to organise broader initiatives that span multiple tasks or stories.
In context
It is the level at which most glossaryStakeholderA stakeholder is any individual or group with an interest in a product, project, or outcome, including internal teams and external parties.Open glossary term conversations should happen. Discussing individual stories with a sponsor produces detailed agreement on the wrong things.
The reality
If it stays too vague for too long, glossaryDeliveryDelivery is the process of building, testing, and releasing a product or feature.Open glossary term slows and ownership blurs.
Compared with
Epic vs User Story
A story is small enough to finish inside one glossarySprintA sprint is a fixed time period where a team completes a set of planned work.Open glossary term and delivers something usable. An epic is a body of work that needs several. If an epic is being estimated in hours, it has been broken down and nobody relabelled it.
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