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Epics and themes

Epics and themes

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Epics and themes

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- An epic is a large user story. A more complete definition of an epic is that it represents a business workflow or process, and is too large to be estimated. Here is an example. As a fitness club manager, I should be able to set up a new club member account. Setting up a customer account includes setting up their name, address, phone number, and their payment information. Many clubs store a picture of the member. The process may include processing the signup fee and the first month's fee. It would likely include setting up payment information so the club could automatically process monthly payment for the member, and that's just for starters. As you can see, this is a workflow that is too large to be estimated. It is an epic that represents a workflow. The steps within this epic may be user stories, or they may be epics by themselves. Think of epics as a workflow diagram. All of the user stories are part of the larger epic diagram. Themes are a way of grouping user stories. In the…

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