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Write user stories that are not disguised tasks
Breaking a feature into stories a team can actually pick up independently.
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Break the feature below into user stories. Rules: 1. Each story describes a change in what someone can do, not a technical step. "Add a database column" is not a story. 2. Format: As a [specific role, not "user"], I want [capability], so that [outcome that would be visibly missing without it]. 3. Each story must be independently valuable and independently shippable. If two cannot be split, say so and keep them as one. 4. Order them so the first story alone would still be worth shipping. 5. Flag any story that is really a technical enabler, and say which user-facing story justifies it. Then list what you deliberately left out of the stories, so we can decide whether that was right. The feature:
Making it yours
- Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
- Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
- If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.
Specs and stories. Turning a vague request into something a team can build: specs, PRDs, stories and acceptance criteria.
Related prompts
Turn a vague request into a real specSomeone asked for "a dashboard" and nobody has defined what that means.Write acceptance criteria that can be testedA story is ready to start and "it should work well" is currently the only criterion.Draft a PRD from my notesThe work is agreed in conversation and now needs a document people can disagree with.Story or task in disguise?A backlog item that reads like an implementation note.Who is this for?A feature defined by what it does, not who wants it.Make this request buildableA one-line request from someone who wants it next week.
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