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Paste the mess
A Slack dump, a half-written brief, or a thin story. A few sentences is enough.
Messy Slack → structured spec
Structured first drafts for PMs and BAs
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slack dump from yesterday — partner SSO thing
- alexwe need SSO on the customer portal for US tenants only
- samsales keeps demoing “sign in with your company” and then it fails
- jordansecurity flagged that ops still shares one password for the vendor portal
- alexemail/password has to stay for staff
- samdon’t lock people out of password login if IdP is down
- jordansession length should stay the same as today
- alexalso wrong-tenant / permission denied cases somehow
- samcan we have something for standup tomorrow? not a full PRD just what done looks like
Customer portal SSO (US tenants)
Problem / Opportunity
Sales demos “sign in with your company,” and login fails. Security flagged a shared ops password. Partner SSO is needed on the customer portal for US tenants only.
Users & Context
Customer portal users on US tenants. Staff who keep email/password. Ops on the vendor portal.
Functional Requirements
SSO for US tenants. Keep staff password login. If the IdP is down, password login still works. Session length stays the same. Wrong-tenant and permission-denied cases have a defined outcome.
Open Questions
Is vendor-portal password remediation in this slice? Which IdP? How is US-tenant eligibility decided at login?
2
Get the structure
Spec, plan, risk lane, acceptance criteria, or a review. A document, not a ticket.
3
Copy it out
Edit it. Paste into Confluence or Jira. The official version lives there, not here.
Spec
What we’re doing, for whom, and what done looks like. Problem, users, requirements, criteria.
Plan
How we might ship it this time. The plan can move without rewriting the spec.
Guides
Short notes on spec vs plan, Slack dumps, risk before standup, and why the first draft stays out of Jira.
Spec vs plan
If the spec and the plan live in the same ticket, every delivery change looks like a product change. They are different documents.
How to turn a Slack dump into acceptance criteria
A Slack thread is a pile of reactions. Acceptance criteria are the few checks that would let someone else say the story is done.
What belongs in a risk lane before standup
Standup goes faster when the room agrees what kind of risk the next slice is, before debating estimates.
Why the first draft should not live in Jira
The first spec is supposed to be wrong in small ways. Tickets are not a good place to be wrong in public.
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