13 AI prompts your Product Owner needs
How Scrum Masters can help Product Owners write Product Backlog Items with AI
Last Thursday, we learned how the POs use AI to turn vague signals into refinement-ready backlog items.
When this is done right, your PO can start the refinement sessions with:
a categorized signal,
a one-paragraph problem statement, and
a selected user story
But what if it is NOT done right?
Then what?
If you are a Scrum Master, how would you help the PO with this process and ensure it happens consistently?
Before we get into the mechanics of this, let me clarify something:
Your job as a Scrum Master IS NOT to run the AI prompts. Your job is to ensure the prompts are run by the PO and the team on a regular basis.
And to do that, you need to know:
exactly which prompts exist,
what each prompt produces, and most importantly
when to push the PO to use the ones they’re skipping
That’s what this post gives you.
There are 13 prompts in this AI discovery toolkit, organized across various groups.
For each prompt, I’ve added a single pre-refinement question that you can use as a trigger to nudge your PO in the right direction. You don’t need to become a prompt engineer. All you need is to know the right question to ask.
Let’s get started.
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