[Process/Documentation] What makes a requirement or user story actually ready for engineering or implementation?

Instruction: Answer this as a practical readiness question, not as a textbook definition of a user story.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate knows how to define requirements that are testable, implementable, and aligned.

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For me, a requirement is ready when the team can act on it without having to invent the missing pieces. That means the business objective is clear, the user or process impacted is clear, the expected behavior is specific, and the acceptance criteria are detailed enough that engineering can estimate and QA can test. I also want the business rules, dependencies, assumptions, and edge...

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