Create Epics to group related tasks across sprints. Track progress from task completion ratios, manage epic status, and visualise roadmaps across the full project timeline.
TARO's Epic layer sits between projects and tasks giving multi sprint work the visibility and structure it needs without adding management overhead.
Create
An Epic in TARO is a named, colour coded grouping of related tasks that can span multiple sprints or no sprint at all if the work is backlog level. Create an epic with a name, description, colour, and target dates, then link tasks to it from any sprint, any status, and any team member. The epic doesn't care when the tasks ship it cares that related work is visible as a cohesive unit.
Track
TARO derives each epic's progress percentage automatically dividing the number of linked tasks in Completed status by the total number of linked tasks. No manual sliders, no estimated percentages. Every time a linked task status changes, the epic's progress bar updates instantly. One sprint's task completions roll up into the epic's overall picture in real time.
Roadmap
TARO's Roadmap view renders every epic as a colour coded horizontal bar spanning its start to end date range across a monthly timeline. Multiple epics render on parallel rows so you can see overlapping delivery, sequenced work, and gaps all in one view. Sprint markers show exactly which sprint windows land inside each epic's range. The current date is marked so teams instantly see what's ahead and what's behind schedule.
Status
Epic status is set deliberately by the team not derived automatically from task progress. A lead can have an epic at 90% progress still in In Progress because the final 10% is a critical release gate. Status reflects the lead's intent and the epic's lifecycle stage, while progress reflects the raw task completion reality. Both are shown together so the gap between them is immediately visible.
Tasks tell you what's being done. Sprints tell you when. Epics tell you what all of it adds up to and whether you're on track to deliver it.
A feature that takes four sprints to build shouldn't be four unrelated sprint commitments. An epic makes it one named, tracked, visually cohesive delivery without changing how individual tasks are managed inside each sprint.
Epic progress comes from the ratio of completed tasks to total linked tasks, recalculated every time a task status changes. The number is always honest. No PM manually updating a percentage at the end of each sprint to make stakeholders feel better.
Every epic rendered as a colour coded bar across a shared timeline. Overlapping delivery, sequential work, and planning gaps are all visible at once without a separate roadmapping tool, a Notion doc, or a slide someone last updated three weeks ago.
Epics don't enforce sprint boundaries. A task from Sprint 12, one from Sprint 14, and one still in the backlog can all belong to the same epic. The epic is the logical grouping sprints are just the delivery containers.
When a lead marks an epic At Risk, it surfaces immediately on the roadmap and the epic list highlighted in amber. Stakeholders and leads see the signal at the same moment without anyone having to escalate in a meeting. The flag is the escalation.
Each epic gets a distinct colour assigned at creation. That colour appears on the epic card, the roadmap bar, the linked task indicator, and the epic filter pill. At scale a roadmap with eight simultaneous epics colour is what makes each delivery stream immediately distinguishable.
A feature that takes four sprints to build shouldn't be four unrelated sprint commitments. An epic makes it one named, tracked, visually cohesive delivery without changing how individual tasks are managed inside each sprint.
Epic progress comes from the ratio of completed tasks to total linked tasks, recalculated every time a task status changes. The number is always honest. No PM manually updating a percentage at the end of each sprint to make stakeholders feel better.
Every epic rendered as a colour coded bar across a shared timeline. Overlapping delivery, sequential work, and planning gaps are all visible at once without a separate roadmapping tool, a Notion doc, or a slide someone last updated three weeks ago.
Epics don't enforce sprint boundaries. A task from Sprint 12, one from Sprint 14, and one still in the backlog can all belong to the same epic. The epic is the logical grouping sprints are just the delivery containers.
When a lead marks an epic At Risk, it surfaces immediately on the roadmap and the epic list highlighted in amber. Stakeholders and leads see the signal at the same moment without anyone having to escalate in a meeting. The flag is the escalation.
Each epic gets a distinct colour assigned at creation. That colour appears on the epic card, the roadmap bar, the linked task indicator, and the epic filter pill. At scale a roadmap with eight simultaneous epics colour is what makes each delivery stream immediately distinguishable.
Create an epic. Link your tasks. The roadmap builds itself.
Product managers managing quarterly roadmaps and engineering leads tracking multi sprint features both need the same view: what are we building, how far through it are we, and when does it ship?
800+ product teams
already using TARO
Sprints per epic
Progress auto calculated
Epic status stages
Roadmap view for all epics
PMs open the TARO roadmap view for stakeholder reviews. Every epic is on one timeline start date, end date, progress percentage, and current status. When a stakeholder asks where are we on Payments v2? the answer is on the screen already: 67% complete, 9 tasks remaining, In Progress, projected to close by Jun 20. No pre meeting deck assembly. No manually updated percentage. The roadmap is always current because it calculates itself.
The tasks inside your epics are tracked, predicted, balanced, and prioritised by TARO's intelligence layer so the progress you see is always backed by active management.
Run full sprint lifecycles planning, burndown, velocity tracking, and AI completion prediction with epics providing the cross sprint context for every committed task.
Filter and rank the backlog by epic TARO surfaces the tasks that most advance your target epics, so sprint planning starts from epic progress gaps, not gut feel.
Predicts when each epic will actually close based on current velocity and remaining tasks giving you the real ship date before you commit to the roadmap date.
Link tasks across epics with 4 dependency types. When a task in Epic A blocks a task in Epic B, the dependency graph surfaces the cross epic chain risk immediately.
Run full sprint lifecycles planning, burndown, velocity tracking, and AI completion prediction with epics providing the cross sprint context for every committed task.
Filter and rank the backlog by epic TARO surfaces the tasks that most advance your target epics, so sprint planning starts from epic progress gaps, not gut feel.
Predicts when each epic will actually close based on current velocity and remaining tasks giving you the real ship date before you commit to the roadmap date.
Link tasks across epics with 4 dependency types. When a task in Epic A blocks a task in Epic B, the dependency graph surfaces the cross epic chain risk immediately.
Common questions from product managers, engineering leads, and founders evaluating TARO's epic layer.
The Roadmap view renders every epic in the project as a colour coded horizontal bar spanning its start to end date range across a shared timeline. The timeline can be zoomed to three levels: monthly view (best for quarterly planning), quarterly view (best for annual roadmaps), and sprint view (best for near term delivery visibility). Each bar shows the epic name and current progress percentage. The current date is marked with a vertical line so teams can see at a glance which epics are on schedule and which have their bar extending past where they should be. Sprint markers are overlaid on the timeline at the sprint level zoom to show exactly which sprint windows fall inside each epic's date range.
Create your first epic. Link your tasks. See the roadmap.