An Introduction to Epic Sum Up
The Start of Epic Sum Up
As the name suggests, Epic Sum Up was created with a focus around Epics, and the ability to break down epics into individual issues with a lot of control for the project manager.
Epic Sum Up was created to allow project managers a more granular control and view of Jira issues.
Two features that were developed to aid in the easy viewing of issues:
Progress bars - these allow a simple “game-ified” visual way to view the progress of individual issues.
The Summary Panel - Summary Panels were created to give project managers a quick, easy to view summary of different progress bars.
Later the Detail View Editor was developed, to give project managers more control over the hierarchy & layout structure of issues that are important to them.
The three main features
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Live Reporting
Using custom fields, dashboard gadgets and the Summary Panel, administrators are able to add live reports (progress bars), to almost anywhere in Jira.
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Easy Editing
The Detail View Editor (DVE) allows you to organize reports and mass edit thousands of issues at once, based on issues/progress bars. It has everything you’re used to in Excel.
You can also export this data for report purposes, to common file types such as Excel, and CSV - as well as other supported Jira plugins.
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Better Organizing
With the Detail View Editor, you can see the detailed & complete hierarchies of issues, and filter them as you’d like. You can also easily edit values in most fields.