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An epic captures a large body of work. It is essentially a large user story that can be broken down into a number of smaller stories. It may take several sprints to complete an epic. 

Epics provide you with an additional hierarchy of story management, providing planning guidance for groups of issues within, or across, projects. This allows ScrumMasters and Product Managers to measure important groups of issues that are all related by a common theme.

See Creating an Epic and Adding an Issue to an Epic.

(Note: In JIRA, epic is a searchable field — see the JIRA JQL documentation for details.)

For more on Epics you may want to read over these two excellent articles:

If your project administrator has set up epics for your project, you will be able to create epics and link them to child issues, such as stories. You can then view the epic and related issues via the GreenHopper search.

To create an epic,

  1. Log into JIRA or navigate to your dashboard, if you are already logged in.
  2. Select Agile > Classic in the top navigation bar. Then select Classic Planning Board from the drop-down below the project name.
  3. Select your project from the project dropdown in the top left of the planning board (next to 'PLANNING BOARD'), if it is not already selected. The 'Planning Board' will refresh with information for your project.
  4. Click the 'New Card' button (under the project dropdown). Create a new card with the appropriate issue type, i.e. 'Epic', if your project administrator has set it up.

To associate an issue with an epic,

  1. Log into JIRA or navigate to your dashboard, if you are already logged in.
  2. Select Agile > Classic in the top navigation bar. Then select Classic Planning Board from the drop-down below the project name.
  3. Select your project from the project dropdown in the top left of the planning board (next to 'PLANNING BOARD'), if it is not already selected. The 'Planning Board' will refresh with information for your project.
  4. Select the card that you want to associate with your epic and click the (which will appear on hover) to edit it.
  5. Enter the issue key for your epic in the 'Epic' field and click the icon. Your issue will be associated with the epic.

To view all issues associated with an epic,

  1. Log into JIRA or navigate to your dashboard, if you are already logged in.
  2. Select Agile > Classic in the top navigation bar. Then select Classic Planning Board from the drop-down below the project name.
  3. Select your project from the project dropdown in the top left of the planning board (next to 'PLANNING BOARD'), if it is not already selected. The 'Planning Board' will refresh with information for your project.
  4. Find an issue associated with your epic and click the value in the 'Epic' field, e.g. 'GHS-123'. The GreenHopper search window will display, showing all cards associated with the epic. The card for the epic and statistics for all issues associated with the epic will be displayed on the right of the search window.

Screenshot: Viewing an epic and associated issues

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