How do I prompt AI to triage product change requests?
Provide product area, constraints, and existing roadmap items. Ask for classification (bug, enhancement, experiment), estimated impact, complexity signals, and related requests. Require duplicates detection and a suggested next step (fix, spec, research). Keep a human approver in the loop.
In practice
Include a short ‘why now’ field—models surface urgency signals you might miss.
Where to start
- [01]Tag historical requests and feed as few-shots.
- [02]Run triage on new submissions with structured output.
- [03]Monitor precision on classification for a month.
- [04]Refine criteria based on team feedback.
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