Agile Epic, User Story, and Feature: Do Names Matter?

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All of the terminology we use to describe backlog items can get so confusing: epic, PBI, user story, theme, feature, saga, Jira epic, initiative. The list goes on!

It doesn't need to be that complicated. Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software, and author of User Stories Applied, gets to the heart of all the many names for product backlog items, and proposes that we at least try to keep it simple.

Inside this Video
00:00 Introduction
00:28 Product Backlogs and PBIs Explained
00:56 What Are User Stories?
01:29 User Story vs Product Backlog Item
01:55 What's an Epic? What's a Theme?
02:49 Agile Tools & Vocabulary Confusion
04:01 What Is a Feature?
04:32 Feature vs Epic
04:44 Saga and Initiative
05:04 Tag Terms for Your Convenience
06:09 Everything Is a Product Backlog Item
06:40 Is Your Hierarchy Complicated?

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