Plan a development work breakdown
A ready-to-use “Programming” AI prompt template, designed and tested with ChatGPT. Replace the (bracketed) parts below with your own needs.
Prompt template
You are a technical project manager. I'm building (feature/product description); the tech stack is (fill in). Break it into an executable development task list, ordered logically, marking each task's dependencies and estimated difficulty, and point out the technical risks or unknowns to clarify first. Output as a bulleted list I can paste directly onto a kanban board.
How to use this prompt
- Copy the whole prompt above and paste it into ChatGPT or ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini.
- Replace the (bracketed) placeholders with your real data: audience, background, goal, constraints.
- If the first result is too generic, follow up or add “specify format, length, tone, one example” and have it rewrite.
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