Business Requirements (BRD)

Shared resources

Load on demand from the sibling deliverable/ skill folder: roles/*.md, templates/*.md, sub-agents/*.md, references/*.md.

Draft business requirements through structured interview and research. Works section by section with your approval at every step. Pushes back on vague answers. Spawns bounded sub-agents for competitive research and feasibility checks.

Announce at start: "I'm using the deliverable-brd skill to draft a BRD through structured phases with approval gates."

When to use

After deliverable-charter completes (if a charter was done first)

Phases

flowchart TD
    P1[Intake] --> P2[Discovery Research]
    P2 --> P3[Problem & Users]
    P3 --> P4[Scope & Metrics]
    P4 --> P5[Risks & Assumptions]
    P5 --> P6[BRD Sign-off]
    P6 --> P7[Dual-voice BRD Review]
    P7 --> DONE[Done → suggest SRS]

Intake

Five questions, one at a time:

Project name and slug (skip if deliverable-charter exists)
Preset — greenfield / feature / internal / auto
Extras — product-facing — prd-lite / exec-onepager / none
Extras — engineering-facing — rfc / acceptance-tests / none
Extras — cross-cutting — risks-register / planning-handoff / roadmap / none

Auto-bump signals: If user mentions PII, payment data, PHI, regulated industry — note in state.md for deliverable-srs skill.

Discovery Research

Propose sub-agents from sub-agents/:

competitor-scan — max 5 candidates, public info (~2 min, ~3k tokens)
feasibility-check — library maturity, licensing (~2 min, ~2k tokens)
prior-art — existing solutions, patterns (~2 min, ~2k tokens)

User approves which to run. Parallel dispatch OK. Raw → cache, distilled → docs/requirements/research/.

Problem & Users

Interview using roles/sponsor.md, roles/pm.md, roles/designer.md. Draft:

BRD §Problem — evidence-backed, not hand-wavy
BRD §Users — target personas, JTBD framing

Scope & Metrics

Interview using roles/pm.md, roles/tech-lead.md, roles/designer.md, roles/qa.md. Draft:

BRD §Scope — explicit in/out boundaries
BRD §Success metrics — measurable, time-bound

Risks & Assumptions

Interview using roles/pm.md, roles/tech-lead.md, roles/security-legal.md*. Draft:

BRD §Assumptions — each tagged [ASSUMPTION]
BRD §Risks — top risks only

*security-legal loaded if auto-bump signals detected

BRD Sign-off

Present full BRD. List all [ASSUMPTION] and [OPEN] items. Ask for sign-off.

Dual-voice BRD Review

Dispatch sub-agents/dual-voice-reviewer.md for independent second opinion on scope and success metrics. Present findings. User decides what to address.

Preset Weighting

Section	greenfield	feature	internal
§market-sizing	required	skip	skip
§competitive-landscape	required	optional	skip
§pricing-viability	required	optional	skip
§target-user	required	required	"adopter persona"
§success-metric	required (north-star)	required	required (adoption)

Skipped sections omitted entirely — no empty stubs.

Four-Beat Rhythm

Orient → Work → Present → Approve/Edit/Revise/Kill → Commit.

Max 3 questions per turn
One section per present
No silent writes
Rushed user? Offer batch mode

Interview Handoff

User can't answer? Suggest the deliverable-interview skill to generate templates. Pause phase, resume when answers return.

Tone

Tight and direct. Push back on weak answers.
Numbers over adjectives. [ASSUMPTION] and [OPEN] tags everywhere.
Cross-link to decisions.md and open-questions.md, never duplicate.

Roadmap Extra — Output Format

When the user selected roadmap as a cross-cutting extra during Intake, generate it after BRD sign-off.

After drafting the roadmap content, ask:

"Ready to write the roadmap. What format would you like? 1. Markdown only (roadmap.md) 2. Excel only (roadmap.xlsx) 3. Both"

If Markdown (or Both)

Write docs/requirements/roadmap.md using templates/roadmap.md.

If Excel (or Both)

Gather the following extra sections using the four-beat rhythm — one at a time, present → approve → commit.

Extra section: Sprint grid

Ask: how many sprints does the roadmap cover? For each sprint: name (e.g. "Sprint 1") and date range (e.g. "01/05 - 14/05").

Extra section: Releases (optional)

Ask: are there named releases tied to specific sprints? If yes, for each release: release name and which sprint it lands in.

Extra section: Feature timeline

For each feature or work item on the roadmap, ask which sprints it is in development (D) vs released (R). Use the Now/Next/Later items from the roadmap content as the feature list. For each:

Tool / feature group name (e.g. "Auth", "Billing")
Element name (the specific feature)
Sub-element (optional — for nested items)
Per-sprint status: D (development), R (release), or leave blank

After all extra sections are approved, write docs/requirements/roadmap-data.json with this shape:

{
  "project_name": "<name>",
  "date": "<YYYY-MM-DD>",
  "sprints": [{ "name": "Sprint 1", "dates": "01/05 - 14/05" }],
  "releases": [{ "name": "Release 1", "sprint": "Sprint 2" }],
  "features": [
    {
      "tool": "",
      "element": "",
      "sub_element": null,
      "timeline": { "Sprint 1": "D", "Sprint 2": "R" }
    }
  ]
}

Then run:

"$DELIVERABLE_ROOT/skills/deliverable/bin/excel-export" roadmap docs/requirements/roadmap-data.json

This writes docs/requirements/roadmap.xlsx.

Next step

"BRD complete. Ready for the technical spec? Say 'write technical requirements' to continue."