Jo's Notes - Using Epics for Your Project

Pivotal Tracker Blog- Using Epics for Your Project

We recently launched epics, to make it easier to plan and track progress of large features at a high level. Whether you are in the early stages of defining your product or have a Tracker project you are working in already, epics can help you manage your work more effectively. In this article, we’ll show how to create epics, for a hypothetical shopping site project. The web site allows people to do all the typical things you would expect while shopping online. Customers can browse for products, search for specific items, put them in a cart, sign up for an account to track their orders and make future shopping more convenient, check out, etc. To help us design the site, we want to identify all of the key “activities” for all user roles. To start with we can think about admins who will stock and manage the site, and shoppers who actually use it. Each has a specific set of wan...

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