{"id":269,"date":"2017-05-17T07:54:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T12:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2022-04-10T15:20:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T20:20:51","slug":"epics-stories-and-sprints-in-agile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/2017\/05\/epics-stories-and-sprints-in-agile\/","title":{"rendered":"Epics, stories and sprints in Agile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently started working on an <em>Agile<\/em> team, using the <em>Scrum<\/em> framework, at my job and I have to say I am enjoying it, as it&#8217;s different from the traditional &#8220;waterfall&#8221; method. What I wanted to go over today in this blog post were a few agile terms: epics, stories and sprints. I will be referring to <em>Atlassian.com<\/em>&#8216;s blog post: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlassian.com\/agile\/project-management\/epics-stories-themes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Epics, Stories, Themes, and Initiatives<\/a> where they go into greater detail about each one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Epics &#8211; large bodies of work that can be broken down into a number of smaller tasks (called stories)<\/li><li>Stories &#8211; also called &#8220;user stories,&#8221; are short requirements or requests written from the perspective of an end user<\/li><li>Sprints &#8211; a sprint is one development cycle in Scrum, and are usually 1-2 weeks long<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently started working on an Agile team, using the Scrum framework, at my job and I have to say I am enjoying it, as it&#8217;s different from the traditional &#8220;waterfall&#8221; method. What I wanted to go over today in this blog post were a few agile terms: epics, stories and sprints. I will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[9,66],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonianadam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}