Briefle words · Product & specs
Implementation detail
A choice about how something is built internally, rather than what it must do, which should be free to change without affecting users or callers.
Say it to an AI
Write the backlog for our internal time-off tool as user stories for employees, managers and HR, each stating the user's goal and why. No implementation details like buttons, tables or dropdowns; engineering decides those.
How an expert would brief the stronger version of “Time-off request backlog”.
See it
Try it as a puzzle →An HR team at a 300-person company asks engineering for a way to handle vacation requests.
Why: B's 'pto_requests table' and 'Approve / Decline dropdown' are implementation details that belong to the team, not the backlog item.
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Room 3 · User stories
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