Title: What is an Epic in Agile? | Definition and Examples
Headings: Epic
Epic
What is an Epic?
How Does an Epic Fit Into Agile Development?
The Movie Theater Example
Theme:
Epic:
Stories:
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Content: An epic will typically require development work covering several sprints. How Does an Epic Fit Into Agile Development? As you can see from the definition above, an epic sits between a theme and a story in the agile development strategic hierarchy. A theme represents a team’s high-level strategy for its product. But to translate this strategy into an action plan, the team must take several additional steps. First, the team will break the theme into several epics, which are themselves smaller strategic plans. Then, you must break down each epic further into user stories. A story represents a small unit of development work that will allow a user to complete a task or goal in the product. Here is an example of how this planning might play out with an agile team working for a movie-theater chain. The Movie Theater Example
Let’s say the senior management of a major theater chain tasks its product team with filling empty seats in its theaters.