Create an epic in Agile Development 2.0
Define the high-level requirements of the features that you want to develop by creating epics in Agile Development 2.0.
Before you begin
Role required: scrum_story_creator, scrum_admin
About this task
Create epics in Agile Development 2.0 and organize them in a hierarchy of parent and children. You can associate an epic to a product, theme, or configuration item (an item or service that is affected).
Procedure
Navigate to Agile Development > Epics.
Select New.
Alternatively, you can open the new epic form using the Agile board, from a theme record, or from a product record.
You can also convert an existing active story into an epic. For details, see Related links and lists for a Story in Agile Development 2.0.
On the form, fill in the fields.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Number | System-generated number for the epic. |
| Product | Product associated with this epic.You can associate an epic with only one product at a time. |
| Priority | Priority of the epic. |
| State | State of the epic. Select one of the following:- Draft The epic requirements, such as the detailed description, are still being drafted.
The epic is ready for pickup by the product team. The product manager and the scrum team can break the epic down into stories.
The development team is working on the stories for epic and recording the changes in the work notes field.
The development and testing efforts on all the stories and any child epics for the epic are complete.
The epic has been canceled. This field is automatically set to Draft. |
| Short Description | Brief description of the epic. |
| Description | Detailed description of the epic. |
| Work notes | Notes about the work done on the epic. |
| Total story count | Number of stories in the epic. |
| Completed count | Number of completed stories in the epic. |
| Percent complete by count | Percentage of completed work in the epic. Story count is used to calculate this value. |
| Total estimate | Sum of the estimates of all stories in the epic. |
| Completed estimate | Sum of the estimates of all the completed stories in the epic. |
| Percent complete by epic | Percentage of completed work in the epic. Story estimate is used to calculate this value. |
| Missing estimate | Number of stories in the epic that are missing estimates. |
| Top program | Program mapped to the scrum work enabling top-down hybrid planning.This field is visible in the Scrum view of the epic form if you activate the PPM Standard plugin \(com.snc.financial\_planning\_pmo\). |
Fill in the Planning section if you want to create benefit plans for the epic. This section is available in the Benefit view of the epic form.
- Click Submit.
What to do next
Add child epics or stories to the epic:
- Create a child epic for this epic by selecting New from the Child Epics related list.
Add stories to this epic by selecting New from the Stories related list. For more information, see Create a story in Agile Development 2.0.
An epic can have one or more stories, but a story can belong to only one epic at a time.
You can also associate epics to a project in Project Portfolio Management from the Epics related list.
This related list appears only when the value for the Execution Type field is selected as Agile and the Agile Development 2.0 plugin is installed.
Create a monetary benefit plan for an epic
Epic benefit plans capture the potential benefits accrued by the epic when the epic is executed. Create a monetary benefit plan to specify the estimated benefit in a category spanning one or more fiscal periods.- Create a non-monetary benefit plan for an epic
Epic benefit plans capture the potential non-financial benefits accrued by the epic when the epic is executed. Create a non-monetary benefit plan to specify the estimated benefit in a category spanning one or more fiscal periods. - Associate monetary and non-monetary benefit plans
Associate monetary and non-monetary benefit plans, so that you can capture the potential benefits (financial and non-financial) accrued by the epic for the hybrid benefit plans. - Generate labor costs for epics
View the labor cost expenses based on the resource assignments for your epics.
Parent Topic:Managing your product development using Agile Development 2.0