In JIRA, when creating a new issue, i am presented with a number of choices, some of which look like they don't belong.For example: New Feature. This should be a part of a story right? How can one chose when to use New Feature and when to use a Story?New Feature looks like a type to me or a Story to me.Or, take for instance Improvement. We can start a whole project with it's own Epic for the sole purpose to improve a bunch of things. Should such work be filed under an Epic or under something else?Please clarify
JIRA: Issue classification, clarification needed
agile;jira
JIRA is a generic issue tracking system. It presents you with a number of pre-configured options which are thought to be useful to the majority of users as they start out.Every team that uses agile methods needs to come to its own definition of what exactly a Story is or an Epic, and whether or not Story and New Feature are equivalent. Once you have settled on these internal definitions, you need to go and either customize JIRA so that it fits your process, or make some kind of mapping between the two.For what it's worth, my own definition for these items is: An Epic consists of one or more Features, and each Feature consists of one or more Stories. And Improvement would possibly be either a single story, but it could span multiple stories (for big improvements) or one story could be collection of a lot of minor improvements (sometimes also called tweaks). But, as said, you need to arrive at your own definition of what exactly these words mean in your team.