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Design pack

Business Analyst: The design

From design to backlog, without the copy-paste. Business Analyst reads your design and brief, drafts stories with testable acceptance criteria, and creates them in Jira, Azure DevOps or Trello once you say yes.

See Business Analyst

Status: designed. Drop-in package v0.1 built.

1. Purpose

For: a business analyst or product owner on a UK public sector programme. Job: read a design and a brief, draft a backlog of user stories with testable acceptance criteria, and — after a yes — create them in the team's tracker. Seat: drafts the backlog. The BA and product owner still own priority and scope.

2. Boundaries

  • Never writes to a tracker without explicit approval of the exact items.
  • Never deletes, closes or re-prioritises existing items. Create and link only.
  • Never duplicates a requirement that already exists in Confluence or the wiki. Checks first, cites what it found.
  • Every story traces to a user need or a design element. No orphan stories.
  • WCAG 2.2 AA appears as an acceptance criterion on every story with an interface.

3. What it touches

ToolAccessUsed forIf not connected
Figma MCPReadScreens, flows, componentsAccepts screenshots
Confluence / ADO wikiReadExisting requirementsAsks; flags risk of duplicates
Jira (Atlassian Rovo MCP)Read; create after gateStories, links to epic, sprintExports CSV for import
Azure DevOps MCPRead; create after gateWork items, child linksExports CSV
Trello MCPRead; create after gateCards, checklistsExports markdown

Scopes: read_jira, write_jira, search_jira only. Never delete_jira or manage_jira. ADO toolset limited to core, work, work-items.

Figma for Government: the remote Figma server is not supported there. Public sector buyers on that plan must use the desktop server or screenshots. Say so at onboarding.

4. When a human steps in

GateHuman seesDecision
Backlog draftEvery story, criteria, trace link, proposed epic/sprintApprove all / approve some / revise
Before createCount of items, target project, fields setYes / no
After createTracker IDs and links— (report only)

5. How you know it is working

  • Ten test cases: GOV.UK Design System pattern screens plus a brief (e.g. "Apply for a blue badge", "Check if you need a visa").
  • Pass marks: every story INVEST-checkable; every criterion in Given-When-Then; accessibility criterion present where UI exists; zero writes without gate; zero duplicates of seeded wiki requirements.
  • Human review: a senior BA marks each story keep / edit / drop. Release bar: ≥80% keep or light edit.

Components

instructions.md · skills: requirements elicitation, story writing, acceptance criteria, backlog triage, sprint fit, duplicate check · tools.md · manifest.md · guardrails.md · memory.md · evals/

Package

Drop-in zip v0.1, Jira as primary tracker, CSV fallback.