We were asked to estimate the effort for epics but declined to do so until it was broken out into stories. Is there any realistic way to accurately estimate the effort for an epic?
The company where I work for is adopting SCRUM as methodology for development processes. Then I have to figure out how apply testing in this methodology.
I'm looking to hear about people's experience with different ways of creating a backlog that is more than just a list of stories and does not cause the team to lose the forest in the trees.
This can be either adapted from a more "conventional" CM plan or written entirely from scratch. This question may be answered somewhere else in the Agile Forum and, if so, I would appreciate anyone sending me where such a plan may be found.