Allow users to view epics within their epic board

Problem to solve

When facilitating planning at scale across many teams or groups within my organization, I want a high level view of how my epics are moving through a workflow, so that I can track and report on the progress of features and initiatives.

How might we allow users to view an individual epic within their board?

User experience goal

Individual epics are easy to find within a board, and a user can quickly understand assigned metadata of the epic as well (ie: labels).

Proposal

Style epic cards similar to issue cards for MVC.

Figma: https://www.figma.com/file/epYXyMqBv0LdJ5F2coAMTf/and-2864-Program-boards?node-id=164%3A130

Epic card

• These cards include:
  • Epic title (wraps to next line if long)
  • Labels (wraps to next line if many)
  • Identifier (location and number) (truncates similarly to identifiers in the issue board cards)
  • Health status (cumulative issue health counts similar to epic tree counts).
• Epic cards can be dragged and dropped similarly to issue cards in a board to reassign list values.

Documentation

Availability & Testing

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

Adopted usage of the health status feature and epics in general.

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