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Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA

You're reading from   Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA Design and manage software projects using the Agile methodology

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789532135
Length 158 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Introducing epics, stories, bugs, and tasks

Epics, as you might imagine, are large stories. We want them to be able to be completed, so it's important that they have a distinct start and end, just like any story. We like to think of epics as something that would span multiple sprints, versus a story, which could be completed within a sprint. Epics are not groupings of work items, which is a common mistake that people make when organizing their work in the JIRA interface. We'll take a look at how to use components and labels to do this, instead of epics. Epics will contain stories, bugs, and tasks.

Stories are smaller than epics. Stories, bugs, and tasks are all on the same level hierarchically; they could all be prioritized against one another within our backlog to include in a sprint. Stories are also known as user stories, and they're called that because they...

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