Examples of epics

<aside> ✅ Submit paper to Review of Educational Research

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<aside> ✅ Finish recruitment for iPLAY for Inclusion

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<aside> ✅ Finalise cleaned dataset for pooled analysis paper

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Things that aren't epics, but could be the rocks

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Use PROSPERO registration to complete methods section

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<aside> ⛔ Finish marking 38 hours of assignments

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Epics are the big important things that are most critical to your success

If you only got three things done in the next three months, what would they be? These are your epics.

Epics also help us know when key deadlines need to be met, and identify who is the responsible person.

It's okay to still have rocks, but they can't come first

One step smaller than epics are milestones.

One step smaller than milestones are tasks.

Tasks should be able to be completed less than one day. If it's bigger than that, it should be cut into smaller tasks or sub-tasks. But, it's still useful to see what the tasks are working toward. Its good to be able to see the forest 🌲 🌲 🌲 🌲 for the trees 🌲 ? For that, you can still create milestones for your rocks, but they're not the most important things, so they stay off your epics board. The epics board is for your four most important things.

Both golf-balls and rocks are milestones in asana, but only golf-balls are on the epic board

Make all milestones the end of a section in Asana

1. So it's easier to track which tasks lead to a milestone, and so it's easier to see one milestone at a time, it's good practice to put milestones at the end of sections in Asana. That way, you can use toggles to collapse and expand epics without having to use subtasks. Subtasks are sub-par. 😕

2. To create a milestone, click into the task details and hit '◇ set as milestone'

Tag epics to the epics board

3. Tag epics to the epics board so we can review all the team's epics at a glance, and epic status is automatically synced with the team board (as opposed to copying the epic across). Copied epics create independent duplicates, so completing one doesn't compete the other.

4. Complete tasks. 👊 Get a unicorn 🦄 Finish epics. 🎊 Get extra unicorns🦄🦄🦄🦄