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Description: This is the basic simple sentences to describe starting state, activities or tasks undertaken as a part of the storyepic and stories, and the desired outcome. It should take a user-centric point of view, and should follow the Cucumber/Gherkin syntax so it can easily stub a testing scenario.
Acceptance Criteria: The explicit single success metric that the story epic and stories must meet. Often this should answer the question “how can this demonstrate value to the user?”.
Alignment: How does this story epic align with the four fundamentals of product development (Valuable, Usable, Feasible, Viable)? Uncertainty with alignment could provide a strong signal that the work is not yet ready to start.
Risks: What are the known risk factors that could negatively impact the scope, timelines or budget? Could there be issues beyond the control of the scrum team to deliver the issue within the sprint and within the estimated effort? Stories that require this can labelled with Review_Risks.
Equity Criteria: Does this story require an additional GBA+ lens? These can most often be surfaced as accessibility, readability issues, but also a chance to address gender and racial bias in the content, to consider performance and bandwidth as equity issues, and to examine and escalate security tasks as factors of trust. Stories that require this can be labelled with Review_Equity.
Known Dependencies: If this story is dependent on one or many other stories, a brief mention can be made here. Stories that have known dependencies can be labelled with Known_Dependencies, and should have those stories/tasks/bugs linked.
Needs Documentation: If this story needs new documentation to be created or existing documentation to be updated, it can be labelled with Docs_Needed.
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