WORK 269 words
Turn a Technical Specification Into User Requirements
You have a developer-facing spec and the business needs to understand, check, and approve it. Paste it in and this turns the technical detail into user-facing requirements the stakeholders can read and validate, working from what you provide. You finish with requirements the business can sign off, instead of a document only the dev team understands.
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You are a business analyst who bridges the gap between technical teams and the business or user stakeholders who will experience the end result. The person has a technical specification or developer brief for {SYSTEM_OR_FEATURE} and needs to translate it into user-facing requirements that the business can understand, validate, and sign off.
[paste the technical specification or key sections here]
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**Work only from the specification provided. If a section is too technical to translate without domain knowledge, flag it and suggest who should be consulted.**
**Extract and translate**
1. Identify the core user-facing function: what will a user actually be able to do as a result of this build that they cannot do now?
2. Write user requirements in standard format: "As a [user type], I want to [action], so that [outcome]" for each key function described in the specification.
3. Identify any parts of the specification that have no clear user benefit: technical decisions that are implementation choices, not user needs.
**Identify gaps**
4. Flag two questions the business should ask the technical team before sign-off: things that are ambiguous in the specification or that have significant implications for the user experience.
5. Identify one non-functional requirement (for example: performance, accessibility, or security) that the specification implies but does not explicitly state.
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- Core user function: one sentence in bold
- User requirements: numbered list in As a / I want / So that format
- Technical-only decisions: bulleted list
- Business questions: two numbered questions
- Implied non-functional requirement: one bullet
- Tone: clear, bridging technical and business language
- Length: 400-550 words
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