RANIARANIA Academy

AI-Assisted Requirements & User Stories

Learn to use generative AI as both a drafting partner and a second pair of eyes for requirements work — turning plain-language needs into user stories and acceptance criteria, then critiquing them against INVEST and Gherkin. The emphasis throughout is AI-assisted, human-validated: the AI proposes, you decide.

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Why turning needs into good user stories is genuinely hard — free to watch, no account needed.

AI-Powered IT INTERMEDIATE · 120 min · Certificate on completion · 3 CPD points

What you'll learn

  • Explain why translating needs into good user stories is hard and where INVEST and Gherkin help
  • Use generative AI to draft user stories and acceptance criteria from a plain-language need
  • Apply a two-step draft-and-critique prompt pattern that tests a story against INVEST
  • Diagnose common INVEST failures such as hidden dependencies using an AI critique step
  • Build and human-validate an AI Story Draft-and-Critique Prompt Pack for your team

Syllabus

Why Requirements Are Hard, and Where AI Helps
Why turning needs into good user stories is genuinely hardFree preview15 min
User stories, INVEST and acceptance criteria15 min
The Draft-and-Critique Prompt Pattern
Drafting stories with AI, then critiquing them15 min
Sharper critique prompts and testable criteria15 min
Putting AI Critique Into Real IT Work
Fitting draft-and-critique into refinement and planning15 min
Case study — the stories that quietly failed "Independent"15 min
Making It Stick
Building your AI Story Draft-and-Critique Prompt Pack15 min
Traps and anti-patterns of AI-assisted requirements15 min