How to use epics, features and pbis [closed]

问题:

In visual studio online you can already enable Epics, Features, and PBIS

Epics have features and features have PBIs. We know that in SCRUM PBIs should be completed in a Sprint.

If we have a small project, 2 months, where we decided that Sprints would be 1 week long, then I think it could happen that PBIs and features fit into one sprint, but maybe Epics wont.

Example: In an inventory system:

One Epic could be Manage Inventory, but the epic could have 2 features: 1. Manage Products 2. Manage Orders

And the features could have PBIS: 1.1 Add Product 1.2 Delete Product 1.3 Update Product

2.1 Add Order 2.2 Edit order 2.3 Delete Order

If, for example I have an estimated velocity of 80 per Sprint. And I start estimating effort in all PBIs, lets say at the end of the estimation, if I sum app all efforts of PBIs in feature 1 would give 50, and in the feature 2 would give 60.

Because Feature 1 and Feature 2 are from Epic1. It means I could develop one of the features, but not the entire Epic on the same Sprint.

What would you do in this case? How would you manage this?

回答1:

Yes, Epic can span several Sprints.

And you can define Features and PBIs with the Area/Iteration path which is similar to the image below (image is from this msdn article).

Also have a check of this link for further information on how to use TFS to support epics, release trains, and multiple backlogs: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn798712(v=vs.120).aspx