I'm curious. When people ask you about the differences between Epic, Story / Tasks, and Subtasks, how do you answer them?
Are you talking about time tracking? t-shirt size? Story points vs work logs? Feedback loop with users? Roles and responsibilities?
Interesting. I like your feedback,
In many situations, I often use the following criteria to explain what's a "larger chunk of work": Epic = Related to a specific budget account (we can define in Tempo). Used at the management level
Then, the use of Epics makes sense also for traditional projects :-)
What do you think about that?
I talk about how Epics are a container/grouping that can be reported on and typically spans multiple sprints. Epics could track project phases, specific product functionality or any other way of categorising work.
Stories/tasks is the standard issue type representing work that needs to be done typically sized to be able to be completed in a single sprint (for development or internal work). The assignee may change while the issue is being worked on.
I have rarely used sub-tasks, but when I have they have been for a task that needs to be repeated in multiple environments or for multiple customers so the workload can be shared.
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