I have a friend who works at a startup and he told me that he never writes user stories.

Apparently he just tells the developers and design what they need do to in a Slack message, they do it and then they QA it.

This is insane right? Is anyone else doing this or is he just a bad PM?

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nah it what I did too, usually a PRD and then some design specs and they built it. I went to a larger company and struggled with having to write crystal clear stories.

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