Migrated to new developer documentation
The contents of this page has been migrated to the new developer documentation; from late on 2016-02-04 it will appear at http://developer.lsst.io/en/latest/processes/jira_agile.html.
Cycles (aka Releases) occur every 6 months.
Sprints are two-week, fixed timeframes.
Epics are higher-level features or capabilities that are to be delivered in a cycle. Epic names should be of the form "Area Short Description" (e.g. Database qserv refactor)
Stories describe concrete, demonstrable features to be delivered in a single sprint.
Story points are to be assigned at 2 story points per full-time day of an appropriate developer.
Stories and story points should not be changed once work on a story has started.