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

Instruction: Review the story below. Produce a readiness decision, two testable criteria and the questions that still need an owner.

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Fictional story: “As an account owner, I want to export our order history quickly.” Agreed rules: only the authenticated account owner may export their own account's orders; export dates use UTC; the output is CSV. Missing decisions include maximum date range, allowed columns, file-size limits and what “quickly” means. No approval has been given to export payment credentials or another account's records.

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The story is not ready for an implementation commitment because its data contract, limits and performance target are unresolved. A useful story identifies the user and goal, but the team should not invent those decisions.

Two criteria that follow from the supplied rules are:...

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