Tell me more ×  When working on a backlog, you define epics and
break them down into user stories. Epics are estimated and kept
on the backlog as epics until they become important enough to be
planned into one of the next sprints.  But once an epic is split
into sprintable units, what do you do with the original epic? Do
you keep it with the stories until all are done? Do you retire
them into some kind of epic archive? Do you just delete them?
They seem like unnecessary balast once the splitting is done.
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This depends on your tooling somewhat. From a process
standpoint, once the Epic has been broken down into Sprint-Sized
stories that can be estimated, the original Epic (which had
really been functioning as a placeholder in your backlog) can be
discarded. If you are using index cards, tear that Epic up!
Ideally, the re