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Epic Management

Epic Management with Progress
Tracking and Roadmap View

Group related tasks across sprints into Epics. Track progress from completion ratios, manage status, and visualise roadmaps.

Epic Management
How it works

From scattered tasks to a tracked epic with a roadmap in four steps

TARO's Epic layer sits between projects and tasks, giving multi-sprint work structure without the overhead.

1

Create

Group any tasks into an epic regardless of which sprint they're in

An Epic is a named, colour-coded grouping of related tasks spanning multiple sprints, or none. Create it with a name, colour, and target dates, then link tasks from any sprint or member. Related work becomes one visible unit.

2

Track

Epic progress calculates itself from every linked task.

TARO derives each epic's progress automatically: linked tasks Completed divided by total linked tasks. No manual sliders, no estimates. Every status change updates the bar instantly, rolling each sprint's completions in.

3

Roadmap

Every epic on one timeline. The full roadmap at a glance.

The Roadmap view renders every epic as a colour-coded bar spanning its start-to-end dates on a monthly timeline. Parallel rows show overlapping delivery, sequenced work, and gaps at once. A date line flags ahead and behind.

4

Status

Six status stages cover every epic from idea to shipped.

Epic status is set by the team, not derived from task progress. A lead can keep a 90%-done epic In Progress because the final 10% is a release gate. Status reflects intent; progress reflects completion.

  • Not Started
  • In Progress
  • Under Review
  • At Risk
  • On Hold
  • Completed
Why Epic Management

Six reasons teams never go back

Tasks tell you what's being done. Sprints tell you when. Epics tell you what it all adds up to and whether you're on track to deliver.

Group work across sprints into one coherent outcome

Group work across sprints into one coherent outcome

A feature that takes four sprints shouldn't be four unrelated commitments. An epic makes it one named, tracked delivery, without changing daily task work.

Progress auto calculated never estimated

Progress auto calculated never estimated

Epic progress is the ratio of completed tasks to linked tasks, recalculated on every status change. The number is always honest, never padded.

Roadmap view shows the whole quarter on one screen

Roadmap view shows the whole quarter on one screen

Every epic is a colour-coded bar across a shared timeline, so overlapping delivery, sequential work, and planning gaps are all visible at once.

Tasks from any sprint link to the same epic

Tasks from any sprint link to the same epic

Epics don't enforce sprint boundaries. A task from Sprint 12, one from Sprint 14, and one in the backlog can all share an epic. Sprints are just containers.

At Risk status makes slow epics impossible to miss

At Risk status makes slow epics impossible to miss

Mark an epic At Risk and it surfaces immediately on the roadmap and epic list, in amber. Leads and stakeholders see it at once. The flag escalates.

Colour coding makes large roadmaps readable

Colour coding makes large roadmaps readable

Each epic gets a distinct colour, shown on the card, roadmap bar, and filter pill. On a roadmap of eight epics, colour keeps each stream distinct.

Who uses it
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800+ product teams

already using TARO

Built for every team shipping features that outlast a single sprint

Product managers running quarterly roadmaps and engineering leads tracking multi sprint features need the same view: what are we building, how far through it are we, and when does it ship?

50+

Sprints per epic

100%

Progress auto calculated

6

Epic status stages

1

Roadmap view for all epics

Product Managers

Stakeholder roadmap reviews start from the roadmap view not a slide rebuilt every week.

PMs open the roadmap view for reviews. Every epic sits on one timeline with dates and status. "Where are we on Payments v2?" answers itself: 67% done, 9 tasks left, closing Jun 20.

More from TARO

Epics are the view. TARO runs what's beneath them.

The tasks inside your epics are tracked, predicted, balanced, and prioritised by TARO's intelligence layer.

Sprint & Agile

Run full sprint lifecycles: planning, burndown, velocity, and AI completion prediction, with epics providing cross-sprint context.

Auto Prioritization

Filter and rank the backlog by epic. TARO surfaces the tasks that most advance your target epics, so planning starts from progress gaps.

Completion Analysis

Predicts when each epic will actually close from current velocity and remaining tasks, giving you the real ship date before you commit to the roadmap date.

Task Dependencies

Link tasks across epics with 4 dependency types. When a task in Epic A blocks one in Epic B, the graph surfaces the cross-epic risk.

Common Questions

Everything you need to know about Epic Management

Common questions from product managers, engineering leads, and founders evaluating TARO's epic layer.

TARO calculates epic progress as linked tasks Completed divided by total linked tasks, as a percentage. Tasks in any other status (To Do, In Progress, In Review, On Hold, Pending Approval) count toward the denominator but not the numerator. Cancelled tasks are excluded from both by default, though this is configurable. The percentage recalculates on every status change, with no manual override. What the tasks say is what the progress shows.
No. Each task belongs to at most one epic at a time. This is deliberate: letting a task feed two epics' progress would make both percentages misleading, since completing it would credit two delivery streams at once. If a task genuinely serves two epics, split it into two, one per epic. This also keeps dependency mapping clean. An owner or contributor can move a task between epics anytime, and both epics recalculate immediately.
The Roadmap view renders every epic as a colour-coded bar spanning its start-to-end dates across a shared timeline. The timeline zooms to three levels: monthly (quarterly planning), quarterly (annual roadmaps), and sprint (near-term delivery). Each bar shows the epic name and progress percentage. The current date is marked with a vertical line, so teams instantly see which epics are on schedule and which run past where they should.
They are two independent signals. Progress is objective: the percentage of linked tasks completed, calculated automatically. Epic status is intentional: set manually by the lead to reflect health and lifecycle. An epic can be at 90% progress but "At Risk" because the final 10% is blocked externally, or at 30% and "In Progress" with the lead confident. When status says "On Track" but progress lags, the gap is the signal that needs attention.
Currently epics are scoped to a single project: linked tasks must belong to the same project. This keeps the progress calculation clean and the roadmap view coherent. For delivery across multiple projects feeding one product outcome, create a parent project that contains the epic and link tasks from sub projects into it using TARO's cross project task linking. Cross project epic support is on the product roadmap; workspace admins can track its progress in TARO's public changelog.
By default, cancelled tasks are excluded from epic progress, removed from both numerator and denominator, since cancelled work left scope rather than failing. This prevents a misleading boost (cancelling 10 tasks to jump from 40% to 67%). If your team treats cancellations differently, admins can configure cancelled-task behaviour per project. Either way the behaviour is consistent, so the number means the same thing.
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