Business Context

# 💼 Business Context Skill

---
name: business-context
description: Understand and apply business requirements, user needs, and market context to development decisions
---

## 🎯 Purpose

This skill helps understand business requirements, user personas, market positioning, and translate them into technical decisions.

## 📋 When to Use

- Starting a new project
- Making architecture decisions
- Prioritizing features
- Understanding user requirements
- Creating MVP specifications

## 🔧 Capabilities

### 1. Requirements Analysis
- Extract functional requirements from natural language
- Identify non-functional requirements (performance, security, scalability)
- Map user stories to technical tasks

### 2. User Persona Understanding
- Define target user demographics
- Understand user pain points
- Map user journeys

### 3. Market Context
- Analyze competitor features
- Identify market gaps
- Suggest differentiating features

### 4. MVP Definition
- Prioritize core features
- Define minimum viable scope
- Create phased roadmap

## 📝 Process

```
1. GATHER: Collect business requirements
   - What problem are we solving?
   - Who is the target user?
   - What are the success metrics?

2. ANALYZE: Break down requirements
   - Core features (must-have)
   - Nice-to-have features
   - Future considerations

3. TRANSLATE: Convert to technical specs
   - Data models needed
   - API endpoints required
   - UI/UX requirements

4. PRIORITIZE: Create implementation order
   - Phase 1: MVP core
   - Phase 2: Essential additions
   - Phase 3: Nice-to-haves
```

## 💡 Key Questions to Ask

| Category | Questions |
|----------|-----------|
| **Users** | Who uses this? What's their skill level? |
| **Problem** | What pain point does this solve? |
| **Value** | Why would someone pay for this? |
| **Competition** | What alternatives exist? |
| **Success** | How do we measure success? |

## 📊 Output Format

```markdown
## Business Requirements Summary

### Target Users
- Primary: [description]
- Secondary: [description]

### Core Problem
[Problem statement]

### Success Metrics
- [ ] Metric 1
- [ ] Metric 2

### Feature Priority
| Priority | Feature | Rationale |
|----------|---------|-----------|
| P0 | ... | ... |
| P1 | ... | ... |
| P2 | ... | ... |
```

## 🔗 Related Skills

- `project-setup` - After understanding context
- `api-design` - Designing APIs based on requirements
- `documentation` - Documenting business logic