breaking-down-stories

Decompose a user story into small, actionable tasks using holistic brainstorming—consider all work categories at once rather than thinking sequentially through the story. Each task should be self-contained enough for a pair to pick up independently.

Given a story, generate a flat task list where each task is small enough to complete in a single focused session:

| Has acceptance criteria, single user role, bounded scope | Story | Proceed with task decomposition | | Spans multiple layers, multiple roles, no acceptance criteria | Feature | Suggest slicing-elephant-carpaccio first | | References an epic or multiple stories | Epic | Suggest splitting into stories with writing-agile-stories first |

Breaks down user stories into small, actionable tasks. Use when decomposing user stories, planning sprint work, creating task lists from tickets, or when the user mentions story breakdown, task decomposition, or sprint planning. Source: bnadlerjr/dotfiles.