bmad-create-epics-and-stories

To convert a PRD into agile epics and user stories, you decompose product requirements by extracting functional, non-functional, and UX needs, then organize them into value-focused epics and granular stories with standardized acceptance criteria.

The best way to structure a development backlog from architecture documents is to systematically extract technical requirements and organize them into independently deliverable, dependency-aware epics with logically sequenced, testable user stories.

Acceptance criteria for user stories generated from product requirements are written using the standardized Given-When-Then format, ensuring each story is testable and aligned with user value.

You need both a PRD and architecture document to generate a complete, ready-to-code backlog, as this ensures epics and user stories capture both functional product needs and underlying technical dependencies.

Yes, you can use this requirements decomposition approach for technical project planning scenarios where high-level project documentation must be converted into actionable development tasks with logical, value-driven task sequencing.

Requirements decomposition in agile development is the process of systematically extracting functional, non-functional, and UX requirements from project documentation to facilitate structured epic design and story generation.