Scope a feature request into an issue

Takes a request customers keep making and turns it into an issue that spells out what would have to change.

What you ask

Product

Acme

  1. Lisa

    @devboxes three customers asked this month for invoices in English. can you file it for billing with what would need to change? want to bring it to planning

  2. devboxes App

    Looked at 3 sources
    1. GitHub Searched invoice and reminder text
    2. GitHub Opened the formatting module
    3. Linear Filed ENG-224 for billing

    Filed ENG-224 for billing. Invoice text and reminder emails are written in German only, but dates and amounts already go through one formatting module, so most of the work is translation.

    Filed ENG-224

What devboxes does

  1. Read the request

    • devboxes describes the request as the outcome customers want, with who asked and their own words.
  2. Check how the product works today

    • You get the parts of the product involved, what each does today and references to the files.
  3. Check for an existing issue

    • Any matching issue is found, or ruled out.
  4. Work out what would change

    • Each change is tied to a part of the product, and it lists the questions that are still open.
  5. File the issue

    • Its reply links the one issue that holds the whole scope.

What you get back

Send invoices and reminders in English when the customer asks

  • Backlog
  • Medium
  • Billing
  • Feature

Requested by three customers this month.

Needs work: invoice text and reminder emails are written in German only.

Already there: dates and amounts go through one formatting module.

Activity

  1. devboxes created the issue

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