What is Agile Epic?

Epics is a hierarchy of work, composed of smaller to-dos and user stories, that your team completes over multiple sprints. Within the Agile paradigm, epics are crucial because they give teams a useful, shared vocabulary and method to utilize when organizing their work.

• The tasks are completed in short bursts of time called sprints.
• The goals within an epic are called stories and within the stories are tasks called objectives.
• The epic hierarchy is a way of dividing large goals into smaller units to allow for rapid iterative revisions.
• The development backlog can have many future epics identified and prioritized and, just in time, we break them down only when we’re nearing the time that we’re getting ready to deliver them.
• Agile epics break your stories down into more manageable chunks, collecting those tasks and splitting the workload into a more realistic flow.

Example:

As a Technical Content Writer at w3wiki, I follow the agile approach of picking the article and then submitting it for review until the reviewer is satisfied with the content. I search for different titles in the pick section and contribute to each topic. Choosing the topic “What are Epics & User stories in Agile? And how different they are” is an Epic of agile development process while choosing more topics for contributions will be counted as different epics.

Agile is a collaborative approach and is widely adopted by teams. There are several iterations in Agile as there is no limit to backtracking to the previous development phase. In this way, agile serves the best version as the final product. Epic and User Stories are two important concepts used for requirements management and planning.