Epics are the work item that the Portfolio deals with. Their description within the Scaled Agile Framework is fairly perfunctory; it covers their formating, estimation, simplistic forecasting and an overview of lean-startup. They are a deep topic that is very lightly treated in the framework…
Epic Slicing
Epic Feedback Loop
Epics need to be sizeable enough so that they have the opportunity to have decisions made around them; otherwise the opportunity to decide if this is valuable occurs only at the point where the Epic is approved to consume investment. The challenge, as we’ve seen in earlier posts, becomes that larger Epics struggle in the WSJF, the smaller ones will win…
Epic Flow
If the work is flowing through faster than the rate at which the feedback cycle is capable of providing proof that the work has generated value then it’s just work being done rather than value generation…
Epic Lifecycle
Epics don’t appear fully formed, there is a lifecycle that they progress through. This articles examines the states in that lifecycle.
Enabler Epics
An investigation into why Enabler Epics behave differently from Enabler Features and Stories.
Epic Ownership
An exploration of what an Epic Owner actually does.
