What problem does it solve?
Large epics often stay too vague, too big to estimate, and end up sliced horizontally or arbitrarily; this advisor guides product managers through INVEST validation, Humanizing Work patterns, and split evaluation so every story becomes a vertical, user-valued slice.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Rigorous INVEST validation: Pre-split questions cover independence, negotiability, value, estimability, and testability so you only split meaningful work.
- Sequential pattern application: Walks through workflow steps, CRUD, business rules, data variations, data entry methods, major effort, simple/complex, deferred performance, and spikes until a thin end-to-end slice surfaces.
- Split evaluation with Cynefin awareness: Encourages identifying low-value work, equalizing story size, and adjusting to obvious/complicated, complex, or chaotic domains while defaulting to the workshop-facilitation protocol for guided interactions.
- Use cases: Turning onboarding or reporting epics into sprint-ready stories, choosing the right split pattern for tricky admin workflows, and coaching backlog refinement sessions with the Humanizing Work methodology.
Quick Start
Ask the advisor to break down your epic by sharing its title, hypothesis, acceptance criteria, persona, and estimate so it can recommend the first vertical story slice.
