bmad-create-epics-and-stories

To decompose product requirements into epics and user stories, you can use a structured workflow that breaks down PRD, Architecture, and UX inputs into a traceable hierarchy with clear acceptance criteria. This ensures every functional requirement maps directly to an epic.

The best way to ensure traceability between PRD requirements and agile epics is to generate a coverage map that explicitly links every functional requirement to its corresponding epic. This auditing process verifies full coverage and prevents orphaned stories.

Sizing user stories for a single developer requires applying single-dev story sizing and dependency rules during decomposition. This approach guarantees each story and its parent epic deliver incremental end-to-end value independently without blocking parallel work.

Yes, you can integrate UX requirements into agile user stories during requirement decomposition. When UX documents are provided as input, the workflow incorporates design considerations and captures them directly as actionable stories within the planning artifact.

To audit functional requirement coverage for your agile planning artifacts, generate a coverage map that cross-references every FR against the created epics. This ensures complete adherence to dependency rules and validates that all requirements are addressed.