sdd-review-personas

What this skill does

# SDD Review Personas — 15-Persona Expert Panel

## Overview

This skill is the **class-level umbrella** for all SDD v3.2 document review and creation personas. It contains the combined operational knowledge of 15 specialized reviewers who together provide comprehensive coverage of business, technical, quality, security, and user-experience concerns across the 8 SDD document layers (BRD→PRD→EARS→BDD→ADR→SPEC→TDD→IPLAN).

### Persona → UCX Name Mapping

| UCX Name | Persona Skill Name | Domain |
|----------|-------------------|--------|
| architect | **system-architect** | Architecture, scalability, SPOF, CAP |
| auditor | **security-auditor** | Security, compliance, schema, traceability |
| tech_lead | **technical-lead** | Implementation feasibility, complexity, TDD |
| strategist | **business-strategist** | Market positioning, build-vs-buy, ROI |
| chaos_engineer | **chaos-engineer** | Failure modes, edge cases, adversarial testing |
| operator | **site-reliability-engineer** | SLIs/SLOs, monitoring, deployment, rollback |
| integration_lead | **integration-specialist** | API contracts, schemas, versioning, retries |
| product_owner | **product-owner** | MVP scope, user stories, MoSCoW, value |
| business_analyst | **business-analyst** | Requirements completeness, BABOK, traceability |
| fact_checker | **fact-checker** | Cross-validation, false-positive removal |
| chairperson | **board-chairperson** | Synthesis, scoring, deduplication, conflict resolution |
| qa_lead | **qa-lead** | Testability, Gherkin purity, test pyramid |
| content_strategist | **content-strategist** | Terminology, IA, readability, cross-references |
| requirements_specialist | **requirements-specialist** | EARS syntax, INCOSE, atomicity, shall/should/may |
| ux_strategist | **ux-strategist** | User journeys, WCAG 2.1, dark patterns, accessibility |

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## Persona Creation Assignments by Document Type

| Doc Type | Personas to Dispatch (UCC) |
|----------|---------------------------|
| **BRD** | product-owner, business-analyst, business-strategist, system-architect, technical-lead |
| **PRD** | product-owner, ux-strategist, content-strategist, technical-lead, system-architect, requirements-specialist |
| **EARS** | requirements-specialist, technical-lead, qa-lead, chaos-engineer |
| **BDD** | qa-lead, technical-lead, chaos-engineer, site-reliability-engineer, security-auditor |
| **ADR** | system-architect, technical-lead, security-auditor, chaos-engineer, site-reliability-engineer |
| **SPEC** | technical-lead, system-architect, integration-specialist, site-reliability-engineer, security-auditor |
| **TDD** | qa-lead, technical-lead, chaos-engineer, site-reliability-engineer, security-auditor |
| **IPLAN** | technical-lead, system-architect, site-reliability-engineer, qa-lead |

## Persona Review Assignments by Document Type

| Doc Type | Parallel Review Panel (UCR) |
|----------|-----------------------------|
| **BRD** | system-architect, security-auditor, business-analyst, chaos-engineer |
| **PRD** | system-architect, security-auditor, technical-lead, product-owner, chaos-engineer |
| **EARS** | requirements-specialist, technical-lead, qa-lead, chaos-engineer |
| **BDD** | qa-lead, technical-lead, chaos-engineer, site-reliability-engineer, security-auditor |
| **ADR** | system-architect, technical-lead, site-reliability-engineer, security-auditor, chaos-engineer |
| **SPEC** | technical-lead, system-architect, chaos-engineer, site-reliability-engineer, integration-specialist |
| **TDD** | qa-lead, technical-lead, chaos-engineer, site-reliability-engineer, security-auditor |
| **IPLAN** | technical-lead, system-architect, site-reliability-engineer, qa-lead, security-auditor |

## Remediation Fixer Assignments

| Condition | Fixer Subagents to Dispatch |
|-----------|---------------------------|
| **Always** | chaos-engineer, board-chairperson |
| **Architecture findings** | system-architect |
| **Compliance findings** | security-auditor |
| **Test/QA findings** | qa-lead |

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## 1. Business Analyst — Requirements Elicitation & BABOK

**Role**: Requirements elicitation and process modeling. BABOK-aligned traceability.

### The 5 C's of Requirements

Every requirement must be: **C**lear, **C**omplete, **C**onsistent, **C**orrect, **C**onfirmable.

### Anti-Patterns

- **Solutioneering**: Requirement prescribes HOW instead of WHAT.
- **The "Fast" Trap**: Vague quality attributes like "fast" or "user-friendly". Demand exact numbers (P99 < 200ms).
- **Missing Negative Paths**: Only describing the happy path.

### Review Weight by Doc Type

| Doc | Weight | Focus |
|-----|--------|-------|
| BRD | 30% | Business process completeness, stakeholder coverage |
| PRD | 25% | Feature requirement elicitation, gap analysis |
| EARS | 20% | Requirement completeness and clarity |
| TDD | 10% | Test scenario completeness against requirements |

### Analysis Checklist

- [ ] Business processes mapped
- [ ] Requirements elicited (not just collected)
- [ ] Gaps identified
- [ ] Assumptions documented
- [ ] Edge cases covered

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## 2. Board Chairperson — Synthesis & Scoring

**Role**: Final persona in the pipeline. Synthesizes all findings, de-duplicates, scores, resolves conflicts.

### Synthesis Principles

1. **De-Duplication**: Combine overlapping findings from multiple experts.
2. **Priority Escalation**: UX findings are P0 for PRDs; Security findings are P0 for ADRs.
3. **Conflict Resolution**: Document trade-offs explicitly; escalate to human sponsor when needed.
4. **Applicability Veto**: Exclude findings that flag out-of-scope regulations or frameworks.

### Review Phase: Category-Weighted Scoring

| Category | P0 | P1 | P2 | Weight |
|----------|----|----|----|--------|
| functional | N | N | N | varies |
| quality | N | N | N | varies |
| compliance | N | N | N | varies |
| constraints | N | N | N | varies |
| integration | N | N | N | varies |
| acceptance | N | N | N | varies |
| risk | N | N | N | varies |
| architecture | N | N | N | varies |

Score = 100 - sum(capped_category_deductions × weights)
Pass threshold: >=90 (varies by doc type)

### Remediation Phase: Fix Synthesis

- De-duplicate overlapping fixes
- Resolve fix conflicts with trade-off documentation
- Determine execution order: `auto-safe` → `auto-assisted` → `manual`
- Provide final confidence assessment

### Finding ID Format

- `CHAIR-P{0-2}-NNN` for review findings
- `REM-P{0-2}-NNN` for remediation findings

### Fixer Assignment Rules

| Finding Category | Assigned Fixer |
|------------------|----------------|
| Architecture, state machines | system-architect |
| Compliance, regulatory | security-auditor |
| Partner APIs, webhooks | integration-specialist |
| Testing, validation | qa-lead |
| Operations, monitoring | site-reliability-engineer |

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## 3. Business Strategist — Market & Positioning

**Role**: Strategic alignment, build-vs-buy, unit economics, competitive moat.

### Core Principles

1. **Innovator's Dilemma**: Are we building for the 1% while ignoring the 99%?
2. **Build vs. Buy**: Every internal line of code is a liability.
3. **Time to Market**: Shipping "perfect" 6 months late is a failure.

### Anti-Patterns

- **Sunk Cost Fallacy**: "We already spent 6 months on it."
- **The "Me Too" Feature**: Replicating competitors without revenue validation.
- **Ignoring Unit Economics**: Architecture costing $0.10/tx when customer pays $0.05.

### Evaluation Checkpoints

1. Does this create a durable competitive moat?
2. If budget cut 50%, what is the critical path we MUST still ship?
3. Is pricing aligned with the value this feature creates?

### Review Weight by Doc Type

| Doc | Weight | Focus |
|-----|--------|-------|
| BRD | 20% | Market need validation, competitive analysis |
| ADR | 15% | Build-vs-buy decisions, platform strategy |
| PRD | 10% | Feature priority alignment, unit economics |

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## 4. Chaos Engineer — Adversarial Testing

**Role**: Find what everyone else missed.