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Instructions file GitHub Copilot

Instructions for abrahamFerga/scrum-skills, covering github copilot — scrum skills, available skills, persona instructions, developer and product owner.

abrahamFerga/scrum-skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Audits the Azure DevOps product backlog for hygiene, story quality, and refinement readiness — identifying items that are too large, missing acceptance criteria, stale, unestimated, or out of priority order. Use when a Scrum Master or Product Owner says things like "audit the backlog", "is the backlog healthy"…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Audits a completed or in-progress Azure DevOps sprint against Scrum and ADO best practices — checks Sprint Goal presence, work item hygiene, state transitions, field completeness, capacity tracking, and Definition of Done compliance. Surfaces findings with severity levels and offers to post a summary to the ADO wiki…

abrahamFerga/scrum-skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Audits a completed or in-progress Jira sprint against Scrum and Jira best practices — checks Sprint Goal presence, issue hygiene, workflow transitions, field completeness, story point coverage, and sub-task consistency. Surfaces findings with severity levels and offers to add comments to specific issues or export a…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Reads an Azure DevOps retrospective — from the ADO Retrospectives extension board, a wiki page, or retro-tagged work items — and produces a structured summary of what the team said, identifies patterns and recurring themes, audits whether action items are properly tracked as work items with owners, and generates…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Audits an existing user story against Scrum best practices — checks INVEST criteria, story format, acceptance criteria quality, and Definition of Ready compliance. Raises findings with clear severity levels and offers to post the audit as a comment on the work item for the Product Owner or PM to act on. Use when…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Prepares a developer's Daily Scrum update by pulling assigned Sprint Backlog items from the connected project management tool, checking recent git activity, and composing a concise Sprint-Goal-focused statement. Use when a developer says things like "prepare my standup", "daily sync update", "what did I work on"…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Acts as a technical lead pairing with a developer on a user story — reads the story, explores the codebase to understand the tech stack and existing patterns, then produces a concrete file-by-file implementation plan with specific guidance on what to change, where, and why. Use when a developer says things like "how…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Generates a pull request description by reading the git diff and the linked user story, mapping each changed file to an acceptance criterion so reviewers know why each change exists. Use when a developer says things like "write my PR description", "generate a PR", "help me describe this pull request", "create the PR…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Writes a high-quality user story from a plain-English prompt. Drafts immediately, refines through conversation, validates against INVEST, and creates the story in the connected PM tool after confirmation. Use when a Product Owner or Product Manager says things like "I need a story for…", "write a user story about…"…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Generates audience-appropriate release notes from completed Sprint work items — translating technical changes into plain-language user outcomes for stakeholders, customers, or internal teams. Use when a Product Owner says things like "write release notes", "what shipped this Sprint", "generate a changelog", "what did…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Applies proven story splitting patterns to break an oversized user story or epic into sprint-sized, independently deliverable stories. Use when a Product Owner or developer says things like "this story is too big", "we need to split this", "this will not fit in a sprint", "break this epic down", "help me slice this…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Calculates team capacity for the upcoming Sprint by accounting for team size, Sprint length, planned time off, ceremony overhead, and individual focus factors. Outputs total developer-days available and a recommended story point commitment range. Use when a Scrum Master or team says things like "plan our capacity"…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Helps a Scrum Master capture, track, and resolve impediments raised during Daily Scrums or Sprint events — logging them as ADO work items, assigning owners, setting target resolution dates, and surfacing overdue or recurring blockers. Use when a Scrum Master says things like "log an impediment", "track this blocker"…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Analyses the team's Sprint velocity over recent Sprints to identify trends, variability, and planning implications — producing a velocity chart summary, average, and guidance for the next Sprint commitment. Use when a Scrum Master or team says things like "review our velocity", "what is our velocity", "how consistent…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Facilitates Sprint Planning by helping the Scrum Team craft a Sprint Goal, select Product Backlog items, and build an initial Sprint Backlog. Use when anyone says things like "let's plan the sprint", "sprint planning", "what should we work on this sprint", "help us pick stories for the sprint", or "we need a sprint…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Facilitates the Sprint Review by presenting the increment, inspecting progress toward the Product Goal, and capturing Product Backlog adaptations. Use when anyone says things like "sprint review", "demo prep", "what did we complete this sprint", "review the increment", "what's the Product Backlog looking like after…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Drafts a clear, concise stakeholder update — translating Sprint progress, risks, and delivery forecasts into business language that non-technical stakeholders can act on. Use when a Product Owner or Scrum Master says things like "write a stakeholder update", "draft a status update", "send an update to the business"…