What are Epics in regard of features and backlog items in Team Foundation? [closed]

Question

From this link I assert that a feature is a set of backlog items, but what is an epic supposed to be?

Keating

It's just a virtual package which allow you to group Feature items, like other Portfolio Management levels like Feature itself. It's just named as Epic as a higher level of Feature. In this article, Epic is the same as Initiatives. – Preglacial

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's about project management term definition, not about programming. – Bonnes

Answer 1

The general consensus is that:

• Product backlog Item is something that can be delivered in a single sprint.
• Feature is something that can't be delivered in a single sprint, but that can be delivered in a single release.
• Epic is something that transcends releases.
• Theme is a cross cutting concern.

Theme is generally implemented as a tag in TFS and VSTS.

This is a practice that is in line with Scrum Framework, Nexus Framework, and SAfE methodology.

Evaginate

Answer 2

From this link:

"Epics are hierarchically above Features. Features are mapped to Epics, like Backlog items are mapped to Features"

Getup