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Agile Boards for Epics

Last modified: 14 February 2025

This tutorial describes how you can use YouTrack to measure large-scale development efforts in one or more projects. This setup helps users in leadership roles plan technology roadmaps and schedule major product releases. These guidelines are specific to products that are developed by teams that follow a scrum development framework.

In scrum development, work is broken down into different units. These units help measure the amount of effort that is required to meet the requirements. Each development team defines these units in their own way and uses their own terminology. In this tutorial, we use the following terms and definitions.

The challenge for users in leadership roles is finding ways to monitor the overall progress of implementing an epic — when most of the focus of a sprint is on the user stories and their tasks.