- Prompt at a glance
- Category
- Text & chat
- Works with
- Claude · ChatGPT · Gemini
- Length
- 81 words
- Fields to fill
- DESCRIBE
- Last updated
Break a project into small tickets
This prompt splits a project into tickets that each take less than a day, with acceptance criteria, dependencies and a sensible order. It marks what can run in parallel and which ticket is riskiest.
Act as an experienced engineering manager. Project or feature: [DESCRIBE] Team: [e.g. 1 frontend, 1 backend developer] Deadline: [e.g. 3 weeks] Break the work into tickets that each take less than a day. For every ticket give a title, a two-line description, acceptance criteria and dependencies. Put them in a sensible order, mark what can happen in parallel, and highlight the riskiest ticket so we can start it first. Output as a table I can paste into Jira, Linear or Trello.
Start with the riskiest ticket. If something is going to blow up the estimate, it is better to know in week one.
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