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Turn Vague Requests
Into Sprint-Ready Stories in 10 Minutes

Five copy-paste prompts. One sprint-ready User Story—with Acceptance Criteria, Gherkin scenarios, and INVEST check—in 10 minutes instead of 90. 34 lectures, 2.5 hours, real case study. Works with any AI tool you already use.

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Sprint-ready stories in 10 min
8–15 edge cases caught by AI
Zero “not ready” rejections
6 hours saved per sprint
30-min meetings instead of 2 hours
Auto-generated Gherkin scenarios
INVEST quality check on every story
Sprint-ready stories in 10 min
8–15 edge cases caught by AI
Zero “not ready” rejections
6 hours saved per sprint
30-min meetings instead of 2 hours
Auto-generated Gherkin scenarios
INVEST quality check on every story

AI-Powered Backlog Refiner is an online course teaching Product Owners and Scrum Masters a 5-step AI prompting framework called C.R.A.F.T. — turning any vague stakeholder request into a complete, sprint-ready User Story with Acceptance Criteria, Gherkin scenarios, and an INVEST quality check. 34 video lectures • 2.5 hours • 7 PDF toolkits • Real case study • Certificate of completion.

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Sound familiar?

Backlog Refinement Is Broken

30–90 Minutes Per Story

More time formatting than thinking about what to build. Multiply by 10 stories per sprint and you've lost almost a full workday.

“Not Ready” Every Sprint Planning

Missing acceptance criteria. Vague requirements. No edge cases. The developer asks what you meant and the sprint starts 2 hours late.

2-Hour Refinement Meetings

Your team debates wording instead of value. Half the meeting is writing from scratch because nobody prepped the stories beforehand.

Metric Manual Today With C.R.A.F.T.
Time per story30–90 min3–10 min
Acceptance CriteriaOften missing4–7 testable
Edge cases found2–38–15
Gherkin scenariosRarely writtenAuto-generated
INVEST checkManual (if at all)AI-verified
Refinement meeting2 hours30 minutes

At 10 stories per sprint that's 6+ hours every two weeks—about 156 hours per year. Almost a full month spent formatting instead of thinking about what to build.

The solution

Shift From Writer to Editor

80% of refinement is pattern-based labor—formatting, structuring, edge-case chasing. AI handles all of that. Your domain expertise stays yours. One minute prompting, seven minutes editing.

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10x Faster Story Writing

1 minute prompting + 7 minutes editing. The remaining time is genuine domain thinking, not formatting.

Zero “Not Ready” Rejections

INVEST quality gate is built into the last step. Stories pass DoR before they ever reach sprint planning.

Edge Cases You'd Never Catch

AI surfaces 8–15 edge cases from pattern recognition. Human experts find 2–3 on a good day.

6 Hours Saved Per Sprint

10 × 10 min vs 10 × 45 min = 5h 50m back every two weeks. That's 156 hours annually returned to real work.

Honest scope: 3 things C.R.A.F.T. cannot do

  • ×Prioritization decisions. AI structures and quality-checks stories. It cannot decide which story is most valuable to build next. That judgment stays with you.
  • ×Team alignment. Shared understanding still requires a meeting. C.R.A.F.T. makes that meeting 30 minutes instead of 2 hours—it doesn't replace it.
  • ×Stakeholder politics. Who gets to decide scope, which business unit owns the requirement, whose deadline wins. C.R.A.F.T. documents the decision; it doesn't make it.
This is for you if…
  • You're a PO or SM with 1–5 years experience who already knows what a User Story is
  • You spend 30+ minutes per story and want that under 10
  • Your stories get rejected in sprint planning for missing AC or vague scope
  • Your refinement meetings run 2+ hours and feel like writing workshops
  • You use any AI tool and want to use it systematically, not just “paste and pray”
Skip it if…
  • You've never written a User Story or run a Sprint. Learn the basics first.
  • Your company prohibits all AI tools (including on-premise)
  • Your refinement is already under 15 min per story. The savings will be marginal.
  • You want AI to write stories with zero human review. That's not what this is.
Agile team collaborating

Context → Raw → Ask → Force → Test

Five steps. Five prompts. One sprint-ready story.

The framework

5 Steps. 5 Prompts. One Sprint-Ready Story.

C

Context Injection

Tell AI your product, users, tech stack, DoR, and conventions. Write it once, reuse for every story for months. This is what separates C.R.A.F.T. from “paste and pray.”

→ AI references your actual team context from now on. No more generic hallucinated output.
R

Raw Request Capture

Paste the exact stakeholder words—messy email, Slack message, Post-it note. Don't clean it up. Paraphrasing destroys the signal. The raw language IS the input.

→ AI asks 3–5 targeted clarifying questions you can bring back to the stakeholder.
A

Ask for Structure

One prompt that outputs a complete User Story: role/goal/benefit, 4–7 Acceptance Criteria in testable format, notes, dependencies. You edit; you don't write.

→ 80%-complete draft in under a minute. You spend 7 minutes on the 20% that needs domain judgment.
F

Force Edge Cases

The prompt that catches what you missed. AI cross-references your domain against known failure patterns and outputs a classified list: Acceptance Criterion, new story, or risk flag.

→ 8–15 edge cases surfaced. Each classified as AC, story, or risk. The displacement bug gets caught before dev starts.
T

Test & Validate

Gherkin scenarios generated for each AC. INVEST scorecard applied. Color-coded quality gate: everything green before the story touches the sprint backlog.

→ Sprint-ready. Gherkin coverage. INVEST-verified. From vague email to this in under 10 minutes.

Module 4 walks through every prompt that produced the Moj Raspored functional spec—including the messy ones that didn't work the first time.

The real case study

Built on a Real Project, Not Toy Examples

Every competing course invents a fictional e-commerce login story. This course uses an actual project with actual complexity.

Dejan, I need a simple application. A shift schedule. Nothing complicated—a table, a few workers, who works when. Can you make that for me?

— Vladimir, cameraman at a TV production company in Republika Srpska

What Vladimir thought he needed
  • A table with names and shift columns
  • “Simple” click to assign shifts
  • Done in a few days
  • “A phone call is enough to explain it”
After C.R.A.F.T.
What the system actually required
  • A priority algorithm (Greed vs. Modesty)
  • Dynamic quota reallocation with auto-displacement
  • Different weekend logic (first/second choice combos)
  • Time-locked entry: Fridays 8AM–12PM only
  • Two user roles with different permissions
  • 12 sections of functional specification

That phone call, 5 C.R.A.F.T. prompts, and ~9 minutes produced a complete functional specification. The same process normally takes three meetings and two weeks.

Module 4

The Real Case Study — A TV Company's “Simple” App

~35 min
4.1Meet the Project: When Your Friend Says “I Just Need a Simple App”
4.2Context Injection on a Real Product: Building the Product Bible Live
4.3The 47 Questions: How AI Uncovered What the Stakeholder Didn't Know He Had
4.4One Request Becomes Six Stories: Multi-Request Decomposition in Practice
4.5The Edge Cases That Would Have Broken the App
4.6From Phone Call to 12-Section Spec: The Complete Transformation
Includes PDF Download: “The Moj Raspored Case Study Pack” (8–10 pages)

Inside the course

6 Modules. 34 Lectures. One Complete System.

2.5 hours of video • 7 PDF downloads • 5 quizzes • Real case study • Certificate of completion

34Lectures
2.5 hrsVideo
7PDF Toolkits
5Quizzes
1Real Case Study
After this module: You'll have watched a real project transform from a casual phone call to a complete functional spec in under 10 minutes. You'll know exactly what this course delivers and why it beats every other approach.
1.1
Cold Open: A Cameraman, a Phone Call, and 47 Questions He Didn't Know He HadVideo • 7 min • Real case study intro with sped-up transformation and visible timer
1.2
Why Manual Refinement Is Broken (And the 3 Things AI Still Can't Fix)Video • 5 min • Root causes + honest AI limitations + before/after table
1.3
The Writer-to-Editor Shift: Your New Job Description in One SentenceVideo • 4 min • The 80/20 mindset reframe + course deliverable overview
1.4
The Cost of Doing Nothing: What Staying Manual Costs You Per YearVideo • 2 min • Time-savings math + annual hours lost + sprint-level projection
1.5
How to Use This Course: The Fastest Path to Your First Sprint-Ready StoryVideo • 2 min • Navigation guide + recommended watch order + what to do before Module 2
Q
Quiz 1: “Is Your Refinement Broken?”3 self-diagnosis questions
After this module: You'll know all 5 C.R.A.F.T. steps by heart, understand why the order matters, and have the complete prompt library in your hands. You can run the full framework on any request from this point forward.
2.1
The C.R.A.F.T. Framework: 5 Steps That Replace 5 Hours of Manual WorkVideo • 4 min • Color-coded overview + why order matters
PDF
Download 1: The C.R.A.F.T. Prompt Template1-page copy-paste quick-reference card
2.2
Step 1: Context Injection — Why AI Gives You Garbage (And the 30-Second Fix)Video • 6 min • Context block template + live side-by-side comparison
2.3
Step 2: Raw Request Capture — Stop Cleaning Up What the Stakeholder SaidVideo • 5 min • Copy-paste-quote method + why paraphrasing destroys value
2.4
Step 3: Ask for Structure — One Prompt That Writes Your Entire User StoryVideo • 5 min • Structure prompt + output walkthrough + the 80/20 edit
2.5
Step 4: Force Edge Cases — The Prompt That Catches What You MissedVideo • 5 min • Edge case discovery + classification (AC / story / risk)
2.6
Step 5: Test & Validate — Gherkin + INVEST: The Gate to Sprint-ReadyVideo • 6 min • Gherkin primer + INVEST scorecard + quality gate
2.7
C.R.A.F.T. at a Glance: The One-Page Reference You'll Use Every SprintVideo • 2 min • Framework recap + mnemonic + how to internalize the sequence
2.8
Common Prompt Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them From Day One)Video • 2 min • Top 3 errors beginners make + quick fixes + what good output looks like
PDF
Download 2: The Complete C.R.A.F.T. Prompt Library7 pages • All prompts + story variations + tool mapping for Jira, Azure DevOps, ClickUp, Linear
Q
Quiz 2: “Build Your First C.R.A.F.T. Prompt”5 questions
After this module: You'll have seen the full C.R.A.F.T. workflow run on a simple, clean request—including an AI mistake that gets caught and fixed on screen. The 80/20 editor ratio becomes concrete and measurable.
3.1
Live Demo: From “Make Login Faster” to Sprint-Ready in 8 MinutesScreencast • 12 min • Full C.R.A.F.T. walkthrough with visible timer + AI mistake shown and fixed
3.2
Debrief: What the AI Got Right, What I Fixed, and the New RatioVideo • 4 min • The 80/20 in practice + transition to the real case study
3.3
Your Turn: Pause Here and Run C.R.A.F.T. on One Story Before Module 4Video • 2 min • Checkpoint exercise + what to bring into the real case study + community share prompt
After this module: You'll have watched a real, messy, domain-specific request get decomposed into 6 sprint-ready stories with full edge case coverage—using the exact prompts you now own. The Vladimir project proves C.R.A.F.T. works on genuinely complex domains, not just textbook examples.
4.1
Meet the Project: When Your Friend Says “I Just Need a Simple App”Video • 5 min • Vladimir's story, TV company context, the shift scheduling problem
4.2
Context Injection on a Real Product: Building the Product Bible LiveScreencast • 6 min • WordPress plugin, 27 operators, two shifts, priority rules, Serbian UI
4.3
The 47 Questions: How AI Uncovered What the Stakeholder Didn't Know He HadScreencast • 8 min • Raw request to clarifying questions to priority algorithm discovery
4.4
One Request Becomes Six Stories: Multi-Request Decomposition in PracticeScreencast • 8 min • Admin panel, worker input, quotas, priority logic, schedule, weekends
On the “10-minute” promise: Decomposition is a pre-step, not part of C.R.A.F.T. itself. It takes ~2 minutes to split a multi-layered request into individual stories. Then C.R.A.F.T. runs on each one individually. The real math: 2 min to untangle the mess, then 10 min per story. One sprint-ready story from a project like Moj Raspored = 12 minutes total.
4.5
The Edge Cases That Would Have Broken the AppScreencast • 7 min • Displacement, partial submissions, holidays, quota edge cases
4.6
From Phone Call to 12-Section Spec: The Complete TransformationVideo • 7 min • Gherkin scenarios + INVEST checks + final output + timer recap
4.7
The Priority Algorithm in Detail: Greed, Modesty, and Automatic DisplacementVideo • 2 min • Deep dive into the project's core business rule + how C.R.A.F.T. surfaced it from plain language
4.8
Weekend Logic: When the Same System Has Two Completely Different RulesVideo • 1 min • First/second choice combination system + how AI flagged the inconsistency
4.9
Case Study Retrospective: What I Would Have Done DifferentlyVideo • 1 min • Instructor notes on the real project + lessons for your own complex domains
PDF
Download 3: The Moj Raspored Case Study Pack8–10 pages • Product Bible, all stories, spec excerpts, instructor notes
Q
Quiz 3: “Case Study Analysis”5 questions based on the Moj Raspored project
After this module: You'll have your own Product Bible built, C.R.A.F.T. adapted to your story types (bugs, tech debt, UX), and a concrete pilot plan for introducing it to your team without triggering the “AI will replace us” reaction.
5.1
How to Build Your Product Bible (So AI Stops Giving Generic Answers Forever)Video • 6 min • Template + real example + quarterly refresh cadence + data security
5.2
Adapt C.R.A.F.T. to Any Story Type: Bug Fixes, Tech Debt, UX, and MoreVideo • 4 min • Story-type variations + tool mapping for Jira, Azure DevOps, ClickUp, Linear
5.3
The 3 Mistakes That Will Make Your Team Reject ThisVideo • 5 min • Adoption pitfalls + cultural shift + writer-to-editor team positioning
5.4
Introducing C.R.A.F.T. to Your Team: The Pilot Sprint PlaybookVideo • 4 min • Retrospective script + pilot plan + skeptic talking points
PDF
Download 4: Product Bible Template + Real Example3 pages • Blank template + Moj Raspored example side by side
PDF
Download 5: Team Adoption Playbook2 pages • Retro script, pilot plan, skeptic talking points
5.5
C.R.A.F.T. for Remote and Async Teams: Running Refinement Without a Meeting RoomVideo • 3 min • Async refinement workflow + sharing AI drafts in Jira/Confluence + async review loop
Q
Quiz 4: “Adoption Readiness Check”4 questions
After this module: You'll have run C.R.A.F.T. on a real story from your own backlog, scored yourself against an 8-point rubric, and calculated the exact time you saved. You'll leave with a 7-day implementation plan and 30 practice scenarios for any day you need a workout.
6.1
Your 7-Day Challenge: From Course to Daily PracticeVideo • 4 min • Day-by-day implementation plan + time tracking + community sharing
6.2
Capstone: Run C.R.A.F.T. on YOUR Real Backlog Item Right NowVideo • 3 min + self-paced exercise • 8-criterion self-score rubric + before/after gallery
6.3
From One Story to Sprint-Level Refinement: Scaling What You've LearnedVideo • 3 min • Batch processing (5–8 stories per session) + advanced techniques
6.4
The 10-Minute Commitment: What Your Sprints Look Like From Now OnVideo • 3 min • New workflow summary + time savings math + course close
PDF
Download 6: Complete Toolkit: All Prompts + Rubric + 7-Day Plan6 pages • Everything in one printable document
PDF
Download 7: 30 Real Stakeholder Requests + C.R.A.F.T. Outputs15–18 pages • Practice bank + reference examples + instructor notes
Q
Final Quiz: “C.R.A.F.T. Mastery Check”10 questions • 80% to pass • Certificate of completion awarded

Works with any AI tool

ChatGPT Claude Copilot Gemini Ollama Azure OpenAI On-premise

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As a CIO, Dejan translates between the technical and business worlds—making complex frameworks work for people who didn't ask for them.

With a Master's in Computer Science and 20+ years across Developer, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Agile Coach roles, he's trained 140,000+ students with a 4.4-star average across 7,600+ reviews.

This course was born from a real project: his friend Vladimir called asking for “a simple scheduling app.” Dejan used AI prompts to turn that phone call into a 12-section functional specification. That process became C.R.A.F.T.

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The complete companion course on writing User Stories from scratch. Normally $59—included free when you enroll today. Stack it with C.R.A.F.T. for end-to-end story craftsmanship: USM teaches the fundamentals, C.R.A.F.T. teaches the AI-assisted workflow.

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  • 34 video lectures (2.5 hours)
  • 7 PDF toolkits (~45 pages)
  • 30 practice scenarios + C.R.A.F.T. outputs
  • 5 quizzes + capstone + certificate
  • Moj Raspored real case study
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The 10-Story Promise

Use C.R.A.F.T. on your next 10 user stories. If those 10 don't save you at least 5 hours compared to your current process, here's what happens:

  1. 1.Email me your inputs and the outputs the prompts produced.
  2. 2.I'll personally rewrite the prompts to fit your domain. Free of charge.
  3. 3.If they still don't save you time, I refund every cent.
  4. 4.You keep the videos, PDFs, and the User Story Mastery bonus course. Regardless.

Valid 30 days from purchase. One refund per customer. The standard money-back guarantee, but with my time built in.

FAQ

Questions? Answers.

C.R.A.F.T. stands for Context Injection, Raw Request Capture, Ask for Structure, Force Edge Cases, and Test & Validate. Five copy-paste prompts—run in order—that turn any vague stakeholder request into a complete, sprint-ready User Story with Acceptance Criteria, Gherkin scenarios, and an INVEST quality check. The key word is “framework.” It's not one lucky prompt. It's a repeatable system.

Product Owners and Scrum Masters with 1–5 years of experience who already understand Scrum basics but waste hours manually refining vague requests. You know what a User Story is. You know what a Sprint is. You just want to do your job in a fraction of the time.

Pasting a request into ChatGPT and hoping it produces a user story is not a framework. It's “paste and pray.” Without Context Injection, AI has no idea what your product is, who your users are, or what your Definition of Ready requires. It hallucinates generic output. C.R.A.F.T. gives AI everything it needs to produce output that actually matches your domain, your team, and your quality standards.

All of them: ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, or on-premise solutions like Ollama, Azure OpenAI, and Copilot Enterprise. C.R.A.F.T. is a prompting framework, not a tool integration. If your AI can read text and respond, C.R.A.F.T. works.

No. C.R.A.F.T. replaces manual prep. The meeting still happens—it just becomes a 30-minute conversation about value and priority instead of a 2-hour session spent writing from scratch. The team starts from an 80%-complete draft, not a blank page.

That's exactly what the Product Bible in Module 5 solves. You build a reusable context document that teaches AI your domain, your abbreviations, your user personas, and your constraints. The Moj Raspored case study is a niche TV production scheduling system with a custom priority algorithm—if C.R.A.F.T. handles that, it handles your domain.

115 minutes of video. One afternoon. The 7-Day Challenge in Module 6 then takes that knowledge into your real backlog at a pace of one small exercise per day. By day 7, you have proof it works in your specific context.

Yes, plus a personal upgrade. The 10-Story Promise: use C.R.A.F.T. on your next 10 user stories. If they don't save you at least 5 hours, email me your prompts and outputs. I'll rewrite them for your domain free of charge. If they still don't save you time, I refund every cent within 30 days. You keep the videos, PDFs, and the User Story Mastery bonus course regardless.

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