How do you turn a product into features, and features into tasks you can finish in a day?
Break the product into features, then each feature into tasks small enough to finish in a day.
Start from features, in order
Name the features the product needs, then rank them so you know what ships first.
Here is the product I am building: [describe it]. List the features a typical web app like this needs, then reorder them by importance and tell me which one should ship first.
One feature, one day at a time
A feature is still too big to start. Break it into tasks that each fit inside one day.
Here is one feature: [describe it]. Break it into tasks for a Next.js App Router project. Assume a junior developer working solo. Flag any task that looks bigger than about 4 to 6 focused hours and suggest how to split it.
Here is my task list: [paste it]. Here are the requirements it should cover: [paste them]. Tell me which requirement has no task, which tasks duplicate each other, and which tasks are out of scope.
A plan you can start tomorrow is features ranked by importance, each broken into tasks you can finish in a day.
Additional Resources
Explore these carefully curated resources to deepen your understanding and practice the concepts covered in this lesson.
Prioritization frameworks
ArticleHow to rank features by value so you know what to build first and what to defer (RICE, MoSCoW, value vs effort).
https://www.atlassian.com/agile/product-management/prioritization-framework
User stories with examples and a template
ArticleHow to slice a feature into small, finishable units of user-facing work, with a copyable template.
https://www.atlassian.com/agile/project-management/user-stories