Story vs Epic vs Task: What's the difference in Jira?
Understanding Jira: The Differences betweens Epics, Tasks, Stories, Themes, and Subtasks
Confused about Jira user epics, tasks, stories, themes, and subtasks? Learn the differences and how they contribute to effective project management in this comprehensive guide.
In the realm of project management, Jira stands as a cornerstone tool, empowering teams to streamline workflows and enhance collaboration. Within Jira, understanding the distinctions between user epics, tasks, stories, themes, and subtasks is essential for effective project planning and execution.
Epics:
Epics are high-level entities that encapsulate large bodies of work. Think of them as overarching goals or objectives within a project. Epics provide a bird’s-eye view of the project scope, outlining broad functionalities or features to be developed. They serve as containers for related user stories, offering a strategic roadmap for project progression.
Tasks:
Tasks represent the smallest units of work within a project. They are specific actions or assignments that contribute to accomplishing user stories or epics. Tasks are often granular and actionable, allowing team members to break down complex initiatives into manageable components. Tracking tasks in Jira provides visibility into progress and ensures accountability across the team.
Stories:
User stories articulate the requirements or functionalities from an end-user perspective. They focus on delivering value to the customer and typically follow a simple template: "As a [user], I want [goal] so that [benefit]." Stories enable teams to empathize with users, prioritize features, and validate functionality. In Jira, stories are organized within epics, providing context and alignment with broader project objectives.
Themes:
Themes are overarching concepts or objectives that tie together related epics, stories, and tasks. They represent common threads or strategic initiatives within a project. While epics define the what, themes provide the why behind project endeavors. By aligning tasks and stories under thematic umbrellas, teams maintain a cohesive vision and ensure that efforts contribute to overarching goals.
Subtasks:
Subtasks are actionable items nested within larger tasks or stories. They represent discrete steps or sub-components necessary to complete a task or story. Subtasks offer granularity and allow for the decomposition of complex work into manageable units. By breaking down tasks into subtasks, teams can allocate resources efficiently and track progress at a finer level of detail.
Incorporating these elements into your Jira workflow fosters clarity, collaboration, and efficiency. Epics provide strategic direction, tasks drive execution, stories prioritize user needs, themes offer cohesion, and subtasks facilitate granularity. By leveraging these components effectively, teams can navigate projects with precision and deliver value to stakeholders seamlessly.
Whether you're a seasoned Jira user or just getting started, mastering the nuances of epics, tasks, stories, themes, and subtasks empowers you to wield Jira as a potent instrument for project success. Unlock the full potential of your projects by harnessing the power of Jira's versatile features and embracing a structured approach to project management.
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Glad to see myself immortalised in this video tagged in a ticket. 😂
@scrumtuous
3 ай бұрын
Get your Jira ticket done, or no more stories and tasks for you!
Lol, I thought the pause at the end was going to be a "behind the scenes" of you saying something like "Python, yuck!" Great video! 🎉
@scrumtuous
3 ай бұрын
Did you not see the suggested video at the end?
@a-rye
3 ай бұрын
I totally missed that 😂
@scrumtuous
3 ай бұрын
@@a-rye My trolls are subtle. That's what makes them so good!
Great explanation of epics vs stories vs tasks in Jira.
epic video Darcy! Also the lighting is so great I can see the back of your throat and can confirm that you don't have a throat infection. :)
@scrumtuous
3 ай бұрын
You missed it.
3 ай бұрын
@@scrumtuous I feel like a monkey being forced to watch a video over and over again... :) I saw the ending it's brilliant! :) What did I miss? 😢 I watched it 4 times so far....
3 ай бұрын
yes yes.. .I admit, 5 times with a hint is what I required. :-P At least now I know what JIRA is. This morning I didn't know. I used to use an old school ticketing system called Remedy when I worked for UUNET (ISP). It was so grotesque and ugly from a UX perspective. A custom built Windows app. But it got the job done. I also built a custom ticketing system in MS Access almost 20-25 years ago. It was prettier than Remedy. :)
@scrumtuous
3 ай бұрын
@ You're the best, King Hippo!
Great overview of Jira epics stories and tasks!
@scrumtuous
3 ай бұрын
Thank you! More Jira and Atlassian content to come!
Love JIRA!
really good video Darcy thanks for sharing!
@scrumtuous
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching and commenting! It really helps me beat the KZread algo when my friends help with engagement! ❤
Thanks a lot ! for this from a view from Mexico :)
@scrumtuous
Ай бұрын
Glad it helped! Where in Mexico are you?
thank you
@scrumtuous
26 күн бұрын
You're welcome! Obviously there's a lot more detail you can go into, but I think this covers the basics about epics, stories and tasks in a pretty short timeframe.
Wow, your workspace is a disney fairy tale... But for the dude, it should have been a pink and white unicorn
@scrumtuous
3 ай бұрын
The dude?
@EfosaSimon
3 ай бұрын
@@scrumtuous yea, the one sitting on the wall like a failed crypto trader
@scrumtuous
3 ай бұрын
@@EfosaSimon That's my boyfriend Mac Miller!!!
@EfosaSimon
3 ай бұрын
@@scrumtuous sounds like a hollywood name
@scrumtuous
3 ай бұрын
@@EfosaSimon My favorite musical artist!
ur best yet! keep that quality monotonic in the right direction 😉
@scrumtuous
3 ай бұрын
Thank you! Will try my best! ❤
But in Jira they aren't linked to Stories. So if you have a User story and you create the tasks needed to complete that story which do you pull into the sprint? Do you estimate both the user story and the tasks? Or do you use subtasks?
@scrumtuous
26 күн бұрын
You're digging deep! Every team seems to do it differently, and remember, points aren't part of Scrum, although most of the Sprints I've been on used them. What I see is the developers point the story. Maybe give it 13 points? 13 points is a lot, so maybe a dev will break that into tasks. If they give 5 points to a task they broke off the story, they should deduct that from the 13 points of the story to make sure the total number of points for the Sprint changes. That's one way of doing it. What's been your experience?
@fifteen-eleven6410
26 күн бұрын
@scrumtuous that'll be a difficult thing to do imo considering you point using relative estimation which was the idea to make things move faster. What we've done is use Sub tasks instead (this has a lot of disadvantages with the way Jira is currently set up) but atleast the sub tasks helps the team break down the story into actionable items/ to do lists/the how the story will be complete. We then use Tasks to handle work that does not provide direct value to the customers or users but provide value to the developers or business in terms of research. It's really tricky, I wish Jira could have followed the actual breakdown per agile
@fifteen-eleven6410
26 күн бұрын
Btw we do not estimate subtasks however I know of some teams who still use absolute time to estimate their tickets and as such input their time on each subtasks
Good explainer video
@scrumtuous
3 ай бұрын
Thank you! Tasks, stories and epics all make sense when you really think about it.
Epics, stories and tasks are no longer a mystery.
I hope you don't ever bring UML into the picture. It is far from universal. And if it was a full language, it could be compiled into a product.
@scrumtuous
3 ай бұрын
Imma do that next. And write a book on it too!
@Fudmottin
3 ай бұрын
@@scrumtuous LOL! When I was introduced to it, I started making up my own "UML" diagrams to explain code to people. I mean it's just a flow chart, right?