How long is an epic?
- Theme - multi-year
- Epic - 6 months to 1 year
- Feature - One quarter or less
- Story - One Sprint or less
https://www.scrum.org/forum/scrum-forum/16650/best-practice-size-epics
Example compexities
1
- Single line change in script/config file
2
- Single line change in compiled code
- Add an
if
statement around existing code
3
- Update a single function
- Remove commented code from a whole file
5
- Remove redundant code from a whole file
8
- Establish network connection between two objects using existing middleware
- Align third-party dependencies between projects
13+
- Consider breaking down the task