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Below you can find a vacation email template that you can use.

You should cc: PO - Craig, SM - Natalia, Team Lead - Oleksii K., DM - Oleksii Petrenko, and your Resource Manager

All requests should be sent in advance; the only exception is emergency requests for 1-2 days

For a 1-week vacation, the request should be sent, preferably, 2 weeks before.

For long-term vacations (2 weeks), the request should be sent, preferably, one month before.

Vacation template

Hi team,

I would like to take a vacation

on 12 - 17 of November 2026

and

on the 17^th of December 2026

Please approve if there are no objections.

For the items to be fetched and shown on the board the following requirements should be met:

Item must have 'epam-eureka' label in case it in posted in some other project;
Item must have 'back-end' or 'front-end' label to be caught by quick filters;
Item should have Development Team = Eureka (to be filtered out from manual testing queue).

User Story or Bug can be added to Sprint only if it conforms to the following criteria of Definition of Ready:

Requirements are clearly expressed by PO, reviewed/groomed and well understood by dev team;
Acceptance criteria are clearly defined and confirmed by PO and dev team;
Estimation in Story Points is added;
There are no blockers, dependencies, prerequisites preventing the team from completion of the story/bug (if there are any - they must be clearly indicated and story/bug must be moved to Blocked status);
Story conforms to INVEST requirements (if possible):
- Independent
- Negotiable
- Valuable
- Estimatable
- Small
- Testable