From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories (2015)
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Grouping with themes or epics
From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories (2015)
Grouping with themes or epics
- Sometimes user stories start their lives as epics. The product owner usually creates a large value statement instead of several smaller stories. That's okay. That's just the way most people think. A theme, or epic, is a way to organize stories into groups. You might have an epic to upgrade the database. It's important to remember that these are large big epics and not the same as user stories. They are naturally grouped together and need to be split up. Epic splitting isn't an easy task. There are several common ways to split your stories. The best way to remember these groups is by thinking of the acronym F.E.E.D.B.A.C.K. Let's start with a user story that we might use for our Bird Finder application. "As a bird finder, I want to see a list of matching birds "so I can learn more about bird watching." This user story could easily be an epic. Let's try to break it down into groups using our feedback splitter. The F in Feedback stands for flow. This is how the story might step through…
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