What is themes and what is epic? Someday before, i dont know about these 2 kind of type in user stories.
First, i want to start with Epic. Epic is
actually a large user stories which we can break apart of it. We can
break it up into smallest user stories. As example here "Sarah want
send hers resume". This is a large user stories. Because we can break
it apart into example below"
"Sarah want to create hers resume"
"Sarah want to select a company before send hers resume"
"Sarah want find availabe position of work before send a resume"
Thats an example i can describe about an Epic.
It is a large user stories thats can be break apart to smaller user
stories which the break aparrt one from epic can be done independency.
Now what is themes. From Mike Cohn from Mountain Goat, he said that, "themes is a colletion of related user stories." And what i understand is, theme is
colection of user stories that we have to done under one iteration
because they are related with each other, which meant dependency with
other user stories. Even though, in agile methodology, it is pressure
that create a not dependent user story which we can deliver an
freaquent functional feutures to users in every iteration. But we
cannot escape from dependencies. There will be some of user stories
dependent on others user stories to complete a iteration. But if we can
keep small on dependencies, it is quite better.
Adios