Can an Epic be a project

vmaz trane

I have recently been provided access to jira. it is a SCRUM environment. It appears we have a team "board". But to access the team board I select from the project tab. Is this correct.

From here there are epics , storys etc.

I have multiple projects I want to start managing in an agile manner.

But the set up seems strange.

 

Can I create an epic as a "new project"  on the team board, then create issues, tasks etc linking them to the epic so that they  all tie in together?

 

Or do i need a project to be set up and then add the epic , storys etc.

 

I do know that an epic is a large (or combination of) story but can an Epic be a "Project"

Tarun Sapra

Hello Vmaz,

In JIRA, Project is the core entity which is made up of lot of different things, and issueTypes like Epics , Bugs, Stories are part of the project.

Technically Epic can't be Project in JIRA as Epic is an issueType which is part of Project.  Thus, you need to add a project and then add issueTypes to it.

Functionally, how I approach it, is to have Epic within a project represent a phase of the project, i.e. Phase 1 can be an Epic containing stories pertaining to that phase of the project and so on.