Each of these epics contains multiple user stories, and potentially even Jira tasks -- small units of work that devs must accomplish to complete a story. The following examples describe the epics in the above Jira screenshot: The user registration epic contains three stories. The payment and su...
Not all the agile projects use Story Points for estimating the backlog items, like stories or tasks. Some projects use time estimates (work hours or work days) while some others also track the time spent on every backlog item or sub-task on a daily basis. Tracking such project that uses...
issues of lower hierarchy levels (stories or subtasks take priority over epics or initiatives) for the reasons discussed below, we recommend that you only estimate issues at the story level, and that you show rolled-up values in your plan ...
An epic is an encompassing user story that describes one goal, such as a deliverable product, a business requirement, or a feature fix. An epic is divided into smaller stories. Stories are then broken into manageable tasks. Epics may take several sprints or versions to complete. Epics are o...
Finding the right balance requires agile leaders to define where and how to apply consistent standards while still empowering teams to self-organize
of Jira issues, called "structures," and populate them using the app's automation feature. Dragos uses Atlassian's Jira Query Language (JQL) within Structure to create customized release management structures where they have all of their epics broken down into features, user stories, and bu...
The color of the cards is given by the issue’s hierarchy: purple for epics, green for stories or tasks and yellow for sub-tasks. It might be useful to have such gadget at the release level as well, but by displaying only the high level work-items, like features or stories, b...