bmad-create-epics-and-stories

To turn product requirements into user stories, you extract functional, non-functional, and technical needs from source documents, then organize them into user-value-focused epics broken down into testable stories with acceptance criteria for development handoff.

Breaking a PRD into epics involves pulling requirements from the document, mapping them into user-value-focused groups, and validating each epic through stepwise coverage mapping before generating stories with testable acceptance criteria.

Yes, this approach works with architecture documents and UX specifications by extracting functional, non-functional, and technical requirements from those planning documents to define delivery scope for the backlog.

The best way to map requirement coverage when creating epics is through stepwise validation, ensuring every functional and technical requirement pulled from the PRD and architecture docs traces directly to a user-value-focused epic.

Writing testable acceptance criteria for development handoff requires breaking each epic into implementation-ready stories and validating that the criteria directly cover the functional and non-functional requirements extracted from planning documents.

Yes, you can generate a complete development-ready backlog from scattered planning docs by extracting requirements from PRDs, architecture notes, and UX specs, then organizing them into structured epics and actionable user stories.