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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 only apply to Scrum boards.
You can see a list of epics at the left of the screen in Plan mode. Click an epic's name to view all the issues belonging to that epic, across all sprints:
Screenshot: viewing an epic in Plan mode
You can also view the epic issue in JIRA to see a list of the stories (issues) it contains:
Screenshot: viewing an epic in JIRA
You can also use the JQL
Epic Link field to search for an epic's issues — see the JIRA JQL documentation for details.
In this chapter: