Maintaining agility when organizing large tasks, like epics, is no small task (pun intended).

Epics help teams break their work down, while continuing to work towards a bigger goal. The idea is to break work down into shippable pieces so that large projects can actually get done and you can continue to ship value to your customers on a regular basis.

When adopting agile and DevOps, an epic serves to manage tasks. It's a defined body of work that is segmented into specific tasks (called “stories,” or “user stories”) based on the needs/requests of customers or end-users.Įpics are a helpful way to organize your work and to create a hierarchy. Epics are an important practice for agile and DevOps teams.

Summary: An agile epic is a body of work that can be broken down into specific tasks (called user stories) based on the needs/requests of customers or end-users.