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Brainstorming Session Results

Session Date: 2025-10-10 Facilitator: Business Analyst Mary Participant: BMaD-Man

Executive Summary

Topic: VisaAI PRD & BMAD Documentation Alignment

Session Goals: Surface requirement gaps, ideation opportunities, and risks across the VisaAI PRD and BMAD workflows.

Techniques Used: Six Thinking Hats (structured analysis)

Total Ideas Generated: 10

Key Themes Identified:

  • Scope Framing & Prioritisation: MVP/Stretch/Post-MVP tagging is essential to tame scope bloat and stage delivery.
  • Governance Alignment: BMAD validation gates and CLAUDE autonomy directives need an explicit reconciliation playbook.
  • Operational Safeguards: Brownfield rollout demands documented rollback, monitoring, and dependency sequencing.
  • Documentation Coherence: Sharded PRD assets require synthesis artifacts (heatmaps, runbooks, swim-lanes) to stay actionable.
  • Compliance & Support Readiness: Stories need embedded compliance acceptance criteria and operations handoffs.

Technique Sessions

Six Thinking Hats (Structured)

  • White Hat captured objective facts from PRD shards, checklist, and CLAUDE directives.
  • Red Hat surfaced intuitive unease about missing rollback coverage and conflicting guidance.
  • Yellow Hat highlighted strengths in requirements clarity and governance tooling.
  • Black Hat mapped brownfield risks, scope creep, and governance conflicts.
  • Green Hat generated the ten actionable ideas categorised later.
  • Blue Hat synthesised process learnings and guided the convergent/action phases.

Idea Categorization

Immediate Opportunities

Ideas ready to implement now

• MVP vs Stretch vs Post-MVP matrix per epic/story • Integrate brainstorming outputs into docs/prd/07-next-steps action items • Readiness Heatmap visual in docs/prd/06

Future Innovations

Ideas requiring development/research

• Brownfield Launch Runbook with rollout/rollback/monitoring plan • Dependency swim-lanes mapping • Compliance acceptance criteria appendices per story • Phased backlog translation of CLAUDE.md directives aligned with BMAD gating

Moonshots

Ambitious, transformative concepts

• SCAMPER-driven advanced enhancements tying AI alerts to automation across modules • Governance reconciliation playbook harmonising autonomous directives and BMAD validation gates • Documentation synthesis playbook to prevent overwhelm at scale

Insights and Learnings

Key realizations from the session

  1. Without an MVP matrix, downstream teams will treat every story as critical path, prolonging brownfield risk exposure.
  2. A launch runbook is the missing bridge between strategic vision and safe deployment; its absence blocks stakeholder confidence.
  3. Aligning CLAUDE directives with BMAD governance converts conflicting instructions into a phased backlog that teams can trust.
  4. Visual readiness cues (heatmap, dependency swim-lanes) accelerate comprehension of complex documentation.
  5. Embedding compliance criteria at story level ensures regulatory obligations are designed in, not bolted on later.

Action Planning

Top 3 Priority Ideas

#1 Priority: MVP vs Stretch vs Post-MVP matrix per epic/story

  • Rationale: Clarifies delivery scope, reduces brownfield risk, and supplies downstream teams with staged targets aligned to readiness gaps.
  • Next steps: Inventory all epics/stories → classify into MVP/Stretch/Post-MVP → review with PO/architect → publish matrix in docs/prd/05 and shard story files.
  • Resources needed: Product owner, architect, tech leads, docs/prd shards, BMAD story templates.
  • Timeline: 5 working days.

#2 Priority: Brownfield Launch Runbook (rollout, rollback, monitoring)

  • Rationale: Provides the operational safety net missing from the PRD checklist, enabling confident portal deployment.
  • Next steps: Gather environment details and integration points → define rollout stages & feature flags → document rollback triggers and communication paths → embed monitoring dashboards and incident response.
  • Resources needed: Architect, DevOps/infra lead, QA, security/compliance stakeholders, docs/prd & docs/architecture sources.
  • Timeline: 10 working days.

#3 Priority: Phased backlog translating CLAUDE directives into BMAD-aligned stages

  • Rationale: Resolves conflicting guidance between autonomous execution and governance gates, giving teams a trusted roadmap.
  • Next steps: Deconstruct CLAUDE.md directives → map items to BMAD workflow stages (plan/validate/build) → create phased backlog with entry/exit criteria → socialize with delivery leads.
  • Resources needed: Product owner, programme lead, engineering leads, CLAUDE.md, BMAD workflow docs.
  • Timeline: 7 working days.

Reflection and Follow-up

What Worked Well

  • Six Thinking Hats delivered balanced coverage of facts, risks, and creative avenues.
  • Immediate/Future/Moonshot categorisation crystallised the backlog into actionable horizons.
  • Lessons Learned elicitation surfaced coherent themes for scope, governance, and operations.

Areas for Further Exploration

  • Detail the technical and operational steps inside the Brownfield Launch Runbook.
  • Validate resource capacity to execute the phased backlog and MVP matrix simultaneously.
  • Expand compliance acceptance criteria into reusable story templates.

Recommended Follow-up Techniques

  • SCAMPER workshop on portal collaboration features.
  • Dependency Mapping session with architecture and engineering leads.
  • Pre-mortem analysis ahead of portal rollout to stress-test the runbook.

Questions That Emerged

  • How will rollout sequencing coordinate between SwiftUI app, Phoenix backend, and automation services?
  • What monitoring metrics will signal rollback triggers versus incident escalation?
  • Who owns maintaining the CLAUDE-to-BMAD phased backlog once initial alignment is done?

Next Session Planning

  • Suggested topics:
    • Detailed Brownfield Launch Runbook drafting
    • Compliance acceptance criteria template design
    • Dependency swim-lane visualisation workshop
  • Recommended timeframe: Schedule follow-up workshops within the next 3 weeks, sequenced after MVP matrix delivery.
  • Preparation needed: Compile environment diagrams, integration inventories, and existing operational playbooks before sessions.

Session facilitated using the BMAD CIS brainstorming framework