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# Step 3: Success Criteria Definition
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**Progress: Step 3 of 11** - Next: User Journey Mapping
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## MANDATORY EXECUTION RULES (READ FIRST):
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- 🛑 NEVER generate content without user input
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- 📖 CRITICAL: ALWAYS read the complete step file before taking any action - partial understanding leads to incomplete decisions
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- 🔄 CRITICAL: When loading next step with 'C', ensure the entire file is read and understood before proceeding
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- ✅ ALWAYS treat this as collaborative discovery between PM peers
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- 📋 YOU ARE A FACILITATOR, not a content generator
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- 💬 FOCUS on defining what winning looks like for this product
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- 🎯 COLLABORATIVE discovery, not assumption-based goal setting
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- ✅ YOU MUST ALWAYS SPEAK OUTPUT In your Agent communication style with the config `{communication_language}`
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- ✅ YOU MUST ALWAYS WRITE all artifact and document content in `{document_output_language}`
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## EXECUTION PROTOCOLS:
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- 🎯 Show your analysis before taking any action
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- ⚠️ Present A/P/C menu after generating success criteria content
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- 💾 ONLY save when user chooses C (Continue)
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- 📖 Update output file frontmatter, adding this step name to the end of the list of stepsCompleted
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- 🚫 FORBIDDEN to load next step until C is selected
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## CONTEXT BOUNDARIES:
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- Current document and frontmatter from previous steps are available
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- Executive Summary and Project Classification already exist in document
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- Input documents from step-01 are available (product briefs, research, brainstorming)
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- No additional data files needed for this step
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- Focus on measurable, specific success criteria
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- LEVERAGE existing input documents to inform success criteria
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## YOUR TASK:
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Define comprehensive success criteria that cover user success, business success, and technical success, using input documents as a foundation while allowing user refinement.
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## SUCCESS DISCOVERY SEQUENCE:
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### 1. Begin Success Definition Conversation
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**Check Input Documents for Success Indicators:**
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Analyze product brief, research, and brainstorming documents for success criteria already mentioned.
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**If Input Documents Contain Success Criteria:**
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Guide user to refine existing success criteria:
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- Acknowledge what's already documented in their materials
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- Extract key success themes from brief, research, and brainstorming
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- Help user identify gaps and areas for expansion
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- Probe for specific, measurable outcomes: When do users feel delighted/relieved/empowered?
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- Ask about emotional success moments and completion scenarios
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- Explore what "worth it" means beyond what's already captured
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**If No Success Criteria in Input Documents:**
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Start with user-centered success exploration:
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- Guide conversation toward defining what "worth it" means for users
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- Ask about the moment users realize their problem is solved
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- Explore specific user outcomes and emotional states
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- Identify success "aha!" moments and completion scenarios
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- Focus on user experience of success first
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### 2. Explore User Success Metrics
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Listen for specific user outcomes and help make them measurable:
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- Guide from vague to specific: NOT "users are happy" → "users complete [key action] within [timeframe]"
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- Ask about emotional success: "When do they feel delighted/relieved/empowered?"
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- Identify success moments: "What's the 'aha!' moment?"
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- Define completion scenarios: "What does 'done' look like for the user?"
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### 3. Define Business Success
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Transition to business metrics:
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- Guide conversation to business perspective on success
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- Explore timelines: What does 3-month success look like? 12-month success?
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- Identify key business metrics: revenue, user growth, engagement, or other measures?
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- Ask what specific metric would indicate "this is working"
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- Understand business success from their perspective
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### 4. Challenge Vague Metrics
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Push for specificity on business metrics:
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- "10,000 users" → "What kind of users? Doing what?"
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- "99.9% uptime" → "What's the real concern - data loss? Failed payments?"
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- "Fast" → "How fast, and what specifically needs to be fast?"
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- "Good adoption" → "What percentage adoption by when?"
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### 5. Connect to Product Differentiator
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Tie success metrics back to what makes the product special:
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- Connect success criteria to the product's unique differentiator
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- Ensure metrics reflect the specific value proposition
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- Adapt success criteria to domain context:
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- Consumer: User love, engagement, retention
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- B2B: ROI, efficiency, adoption
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- Developer tools: Developer experience, community
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- Regulated: Compliance, safety, validation
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- GovTech: Government compliance, accessibility, procurement
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### 6. Smart Scope Negotiation
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Guide scope definition through success lens:
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- Help user distinguish MVP (must work to be useful) from growth (competitive) and vision (dream)
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- Guide conversation through three scope levels:
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1. MVP: What's essential for proving the concept?
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2. Growth: What makes it competitive?
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3. Vision: What's the dream version?
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- Challenge scope creep conversationally: Could this wait until after launch? Is this essential for MVP?
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- For complex domains: Ensure compliance minimums are included in MVP
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### 7. Generate Success Criteria Content
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Prepare the content to append to the document:
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#### Content Structure:
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When saving to document, append these Level 2 and Level 3 sections:
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```markdown
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## Success Criteria
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### User Success
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[Content about user success criteria based on conversation]
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### Business Success
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[Content about business success metrics based on conversation]
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### Technical Success
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[Content about technical success requirements based on conversation]
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### Measurable Outcomes
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[Content about specific measurable outcomes based on conversation]
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## Product Scope
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### MVP - Minimum Viable Product
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[Content about MVP scope based on conversation]
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### Growth Features (Post-MVP)
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[Content about growth features based on conversation]
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### Vision (Future)
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[Content about future vision based on conversation]
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```
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### 8. Present MENU OPTIONS
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Present the success criteria content for user review, then display menu:
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- Show the drafted success criteria and scope definition (using structure from section 7)
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- Ask if they'd like to refine further, get other perspectives, or proceed
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- Present menu options naturally as part of the conversation
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Display: "**Select:** [A] Advanced Elicitation [P] Party Mode [C] Continue to User Journey Mapping (Step 4 of 11)"
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#### Menu Handling Logic:
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- IF A: Invoke the `bmad-advanced-elicitation` skill with the current success criteria content, process the enhanced success metrics that come back, ask user "Accept these improvements to the success criteria? (y/n)", if yes update content with improvements then redisplay menu, if no keep original content then redisplay menu
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- IF P: Invoke the `bmad-party-mode` skill with the current success criteria, process the collaborative improvements to metrics and scope, ask user "Accept these changes to the success criteria? (y/n)", if yes update content with improvements then redisplay menu, if no keep original content then redisplay menu
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- IF C: Append the final content to {outputFile}, update frontmatter by adding this step name to the end of the stepsCompleted array, then read fully and follow: ./step-04-journeys.md
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- IF Any other: help user respond, then redisplay menu
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#### EXECUTION RULES:
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- ALWAYS halt and wait for user input after presenting menu
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- ONLY proceed to next step when user selects 'C'
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- After other menu items execution, return to this menu
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## APPEND TO DOCUMENT:
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When user selects 'C', append the content directly to the document using the structure from step 7.
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## SUCCESS METRICS:
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✅ User success criteria clearly identified and made measurable
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✅ Business success metrics defined with specific targets
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✅ Success criteria connected to product differentiator
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✅ Scope properly negotiated (MVP, Growth, Vision)
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✅ A/P/C menu presented and handled correctly
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✅ Content properly appended to document when C selected
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## FAILURE MODES:
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❌ Accepting vague success metrics without pushing for specificity
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❌ Not connecting success criteria back to product differentiator
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❌ Missing scope negotiation and leaving it undefined
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❌ Generating content without real user input on what success looks like
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❌ Not presenting A/P/C menu after content generation
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❌ Appending content without user selecting 'C'
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❌ **CRITICAL**: Reading only partial step file - leads to incomplete understanding and poor decisions
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❌ **CRITICAL**: Proceeding with 'C' without fully reading and understanding the next step file
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❌ **CRITICAL**: Making decisions without complete understanding of step requirements and protocols
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## DOMAIN CONSIDERATIONS:
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If working in regulated domains (healthcare, fintech, govtech):
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- Include compliance milestones in success criteria
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- Add regulatory approval timelines to MVP scope
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- Consider audit requirements as technical success metrics
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## NEXT STEP:
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After user selects 'C' and content is saved to document, load `./step-04-journeys.md` to map user journeys.
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Remember: Do NOT proceed to step-04 until user explicitly selects 'C' from the A/P/C menu and content is saved!
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