Epic Management
Group related tasks into epics, track progress automatically from task completion, and view all epics on a shared roadmap timeline.
Epic Management lets you group related tasks across sprints into a named epic, track its progress automatically, and visualize all epics on a roadmap timeline.
How it works
An epic is a named, color-coded grouping of related tasks that can span multiple sprints or sit in the backlog. You create an epic with a name, description, color, and target dates, then link tasks to it from any sprint, status, or team member. TARO calculates epic progress automatically as the number of linked tasks in Completed status divided by the total linked tasks, recalculated whenever a linked task changes status. Epic status is a separate, manually set signal that reflects the lead's assessment of the epic's lifecycle stage, so progress and status are shown together.
Key capabilities
- Group tasks from any sprint, status, or owner into a single epic; each task belongs to at most one epic at a time.
- Automatic progress percentage from completed-versus-total linked tasks, with no manual override.
- Configurable handling of cancelled tasks in the progress calculation (excluded from both counts by default).
- Roadmap view rendering each epic as a color-coded bar across a shared timeline, with monthly, quarterly, and sprint zoom levels.
- Current-date marker and sprint markers overlaid on the timeline to show what is ahead, behind, or inside each epic's range.
- Six epic status stages set manually, independent of progress.
- At Risk status that highlights the epic in amber on the roadmap and epic list.
- Color coding carried across the epic card, roadmap bar, linked task indicator, and filter pill.
Tips
Epics are scoped to a single project. For work spanning multiple projects, create a parent project that holds the epic and link tasks from sub-projects using cross-project task linking.
Related: Sprint and Agile, Completion Analysis, Task Dependencies.