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Priya's Wednesday, two ways

8 lessons · 26 prompts

A day in the life of a Product Owner: what changes with these prompts.

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Priya, a product owner for a mobile banking team.

Priya starts her Wednesday with a backlog grooming session. Yesterday she used ChatGPT to draft a user story for a new savings goal feature. She typed: 'Write a user story for a savings goal feature that lets customers set a target amount and a date. Include acceptance criteria for notifications and progress tracking.' The AI gave her a solid draft. She refined it with her team's feedback in ten minutes.

Next, she needs to refine requirements for a recurring transfer feature. The requirements are vague: 'Make it easy to set up.' She opens Claude and asks: 'List five edge cases for a recurring transfer feature, including what happens if the source account has low funds.' The AI suggests cases she had not considered, like what happens on a leap day. She copies them into her notes for the sprint-ready discussion.

After lunch, Priya prepares for sprint planning. She uses Gemini to shape the sprint goal and estimate relative effort. She prompts: 'Draft a sprint goal for a team working on savings goals and recurring transfers. Then suggest story points based on complexity.' The AI gives her a starting point. She adjusts the points with her team, but the prep is done in fifteen minutes instead of an hour.

With the time she saves, Priya leaves work on time. She picks up her daughter from soccer practice and they stop for ice cream. She also uses the extra half hour to read a chapter of a novel. The backlog is clear, the sprint is ready, and she feels calm.

Before

  • Backlog feels like a tangled mess.
  • Sprint planning takes all afternoon.
  • Stakeholders ask for updates constantly.
  • Stories need many rewrites.

After this course

  • Backlog is clear and ordered.
  • Sprint planning is focused and calm.
  • Updates go out without stress.
  • Stories are ready in one pass.

What you'll learn

  • User Story Writing: Draft clear user stories and acceptance criteria that developers can refine.
  • Requirements Refinement: Clarify vague requirements, uncover edge cases, and prepare stories for sprint-ready discussions.
  • Backlog Prioritization: Apply prioritization frameworks, compare tradeoffs, and document why items sit where they do.
  • Sprint Planning Support: Shape sprint goals, estimate relative effort, and prepare planning inputs without doing the team's decisions.
  • Accepting Completed Work: Compare delivered work to acceptance criteria, generate test scenarios, and write clear acceptance feedback.
  • Stakeholder Communication: Summarize stakeholder input, prepare demo scripts, and turn product progress into clear updates.
  • Product Progress Monitoring: Interpret product metrics, draft progress reports, and spot risks or gaps in the backlog.
  • Vision And Strategy: Turn business goals and user needs into a clear product vision, one-pager, and challenge assumptions before sharing it.

How this course works

  1. 8 lessonsOne task of your job each, from user story writing to vision and strategy.
  2. Ready-to-paste promptsCopy, fill in the parts in {{brackets}}, paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
  3. Tick and completeTick the prompts you tried and mark each lesson complete.
  4. Get certifiedFinish and keep the prompts as your own library.