Agile story generation

  • Release version: Xanadu
  • Updated January 30, 2025
  • 1 minute to read
  • Breakdown epics and features into stories using Now Assist in the Enterprise Agile Planning (EAP) workspace. Product managers or scrum leads can save time and reduce functional gaps in stories, thereby improving overall quality and productivity.

    Product managers and scrum leaders typically spend time and effort in creating detailed stores for their epics and features. More often than not, stories that are created manually tend not be detailed enough, lacking context and complete information. This lack of information impacts the understanding of the requirements by the scrum teams, thereby affecting the quality of the product. Also, manually creating detailed individual stories for each epic takes a significant amount of time.

    The Now Assist for Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) application includes the skills of generative AI that enable product managers and scrum leads automatically generate context-based stories for their work items. Through the Agile story generation skill, Now Assist provides story recommendations for an epic or a feature using the name, description, Docs content, and any existing stories. Based on the recommendations, you can ask Now Assist to perform one of the following:
    • Split a story recommendation into multiple stories.
    • Combine multiple story recommendations into one story.
    • Generate stories according to its original recommendations.
    • Remove any story recommendation.
    • Suggest modification of details within the recommendation such as story title, persona, and description.
    • Suggest generating a new story recommendation.

    Now Assist story recommendations and user action choices.

    Thus, using Now Assist to help generate stories for epics and features, product managers can reduce time spent in creating high-quality stories, while improving the productivity of the overall scrum team.

    For information on how to use this skill, see Generate stories from work items in EAP using Now Assist for SPM.

    Availability

    This skill is available in the workflow and product listed below.

    Table 1. Now Assist product and workflow
    Workflow Product
    Technology

    The Agile story generation skill is supported starting with the Xanadu Patch 9 release and with Strategic Planning v4.5.0. If you are on earlier versions of the Xanadu release, you can activate the Story generation skill, which generates stories from Epics only.