{
  "schemaVersion": "1.0",
  "title": "Customer Support Escalation Management System",
  "lang": "en",
  "prd": {
    "oneLiner": "Connect impact, evidence, owner teams, status, customer communication, workarounds, resolution, and recurrence prevention.",
    "goal": "Reduce initial owner-assignment time for support escalations by 30% and eliminate missed customer-impact notices.",
    "whyNow": "Complex customer issues lose context and accountability as they move between support, product, and engineering, delaying updates and resolution.",
    "category": "Customer Support & Knowledge system",
    "platforms": [
      "Web"
    ],
    "problem": "Complex customer issues lose context and accountability as they move between support, product, and engineering, delaying updates and resolution.",
    "solution": "Connect impact, evidence, owner teams, status, customer communication, workarounds, resolution, and recurrence prevention.",
    "alternatives": "Email, chat, spreadsheets, and manual ledgers",
    "differentiator": "Manage intake, processing, and operations data as one connected source of truth.",
    "targets": [
      {
        "name": "Support agent and specialist handling a complex customer problem",
        "role": "Requester and operational user",
        "needs": "Quickly register needed work and know its status.",
        "pain": "Complex customer issues lose context and accountability as they move between support, product, and engineering, delaying updates and resolution."
      },
      {
        "name": "Customer support, product, and engineering escalation coordinator",
        "role": "Operations administrator",
        "needs": "Manage priority and history and review operations metrics.",
        "pain": "Complex customer issues lose context and accountability as they move between support, product, and engineering, delaying updates and resolution."
      },
      {
        "name": "System and policy administrator",
        "role": "Operations and security administrator",
        "needs": "Manage access, policy, and audit history.",
        "pain": "Complex customer issues lose context and accountability as they move between support, product, and engineering, delaying updates and resolution."
      }
    ],
    "scenarios": [
      {
        "text": "An operational user registers required work and checks its status.",
        "start": "P1"
      },
      {
        "text": "An operator processes queued work and handles exceptions.",
        "start": "P5"
      },
      {
        "text": "System and policy administrator reviews policy and access.",
        "start": "P9"
      },
      {
        "text": "System and policy administrator reviews audit records and operating metrics.",
        "start": "P10"
      }
    ],
    "northStar": "Share of operations requests completed on time",
    "kpis": [
      {
        "name": "On-time processing rate",
        "target": "Reduce initial owner-assignment time for support escalations by 30% and eliminate missed customer-impact notices.",
        "baseline": "Not measured",
        "method": "Monthly aggregation of state changes against target dates",
        "refs": [
          "F6"
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "Operations visibility",
        "target": "100% of key work tracked",
        "baseline": "Not measured",
        "method": "Share of records connected to reporting",
        "refs": [
          "F11"
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "Auditable operations rate",
        "target": "100% of key changes retained",
        "baseline": "Not measured",
        "method": "Monthly audit-log and change-history review",
        "refs": [
          "F12"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "inScope": [
      "Escalation request, impact, and evidence registration",
      "Issue state, customer impact, owner team, action, and communication-history lookup",
      "Severity triage, specialist assignment, customer notice, workaround, resolution, and post-incident analysis",
      "Escalation volume, time to resolution, recurrence, and customer-impact reporting",
      "Escalation request, impact, and evidence registration validation and duplicate prevention",
      "Search, filter, and history management",
      "Owner, priority, and SLA management",
      "Approval and policy review",
      "Exception, rejection, and reprocessing",
      "Notifications and subscriptions",
      "External integration and data synchronization",
      "Role, permission, and audit management"
    ],
    "nonGoals": [
      "External customer portal",
      "Replacing adjacent systems such as accounting or payroll"
    ],
    "assumptions": [
      "User and organization data are available through company SSO.",
      "Operators manage policy and classification criteria."
    ],
    "risks": [
      "Weak initial classification can cause incorrect processing.",
      "Stale source data can reduce operational trust."
    ],
    "openQuestions": [
      "What defines urgent processing and approval?",
      "What are the post-completion verification and reopen rules?"
    ],
    "constraints": [
      "State, owner, and priority changes require audit logs.",
      "Access is limited by role.",
      "Permission, policy, and state changes require audit logs."
    ]
  },
  "requirements": [
    {
      "id": "R1",
      "title": "Intake and data quality",
      "desc": "Complex customer issues lose context and accountability as they move between support, product, and engineering, delaying updates and resolution.",
      "status": "todo",
      "priority": "high",
      "acceptance": [
        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
          "done": false
        }
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "F1",
          "title": "Escalation request, impact, and evidence registration",
          "desc": "Connect impact, evidence, owner teams, status, customer communication, workarounds, resolution, and recurrence prevention.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "high",
          "acceptance": [
            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
          ],
          "specs": [
            {
              "title": "Escalation request, impact, and evidence registration core processing rule",
              "desc": "Connect impact, evidence, owner teams, status, customer communication, workarounds, resolution, and recurrence prevention.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Escalation request, impact, and evidence registration exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Connect impact, evidence, owner teams, status, customer communication, workarounds, resolution, and recurrence prevention. Retain change, failure, and reprocessing conditions with history.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "F2",
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          "desc": "Complex customer issues lose context and accountability as they move between support, product, and engineering, delaying updates and resolution.",
          "status": "todo",
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            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
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            {
              "title": "Escalation request, impact, and evidence registration validation and duplicate prevention core processing rule",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
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              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Escalation request, impact, and evidence registration validation and duplicate prevention exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Complex customer issues lose context and accountability as they move between support, product, and engineering, delaying updates and resolution. Retain change, failure, and reprocessing conditions with history.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "R2",
      "title": "Records and search",
      "desc": "Connect impact, evidence, owner teams, status, customer communication, workarounds, resolution, and recurrence prevention.",
      "status": "todo",
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        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
          "done": false
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        {
          "id": "F3",
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            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              "title": "Issue state, customer impact, owner team, action, and communication-history lookup core processing rule",
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            {
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        {
          "id": "F4",
          "title": "Search, filter, and history management",
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              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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            {
              "title": "Search, filter, and history management core processing rule",
              "desc": "Connect impact, evidence, owner teams, status, customer communication, workarounds, resolution, and recurrence prevention.",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Search, filter, and history management exception and audit handling",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              ]
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    {
      "id": "R3",
      "title": "Processing and ownership",
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      "status": "todo",
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        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
          "done": false
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        {
          "id": "F5",
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          "status": "todo",
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            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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            {
              "title": "Severity triage, specialist assignment, customer notice, workaround, resolution, and post-incident analysis core processing rule",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              ]
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        },
        {
          "id": "F6",
          "title": "Owner, priority, and SLA management",
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          "status": "todo",
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            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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            {
              "title": "Owner, priority, and SLA management core processing rule",
              "desc": "Reduce initial owner-assignment time for support escalations by 30% and eliminate missed customer-impact notices.",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Owner, priority, and SLA management exception and audit handling",
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              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "R4",
      "title": "Approval and exceptions",
      "desc": "Complex customer issues lose context and accountability as they move between support, product, and engineering, delaying updates and resolution.",
      "status": "todo",
      "priority": "high",
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        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
          "done": false
        }
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        {
          "id": "F7",
          "title": "Approval and policy review",
          "desc": "Connect impact, evidence, owner teams, status, customer communication, workarounds, resolution, and recurrence prevention.",
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            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
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            {
              "title": "Approval and policy review core processing rule",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
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            {
              "title": "Approval and policy review exception and audit handling",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              ]
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        {
          "id": "F8",
          "title": "Exception, rejection, and reprocessing",
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              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              "title": "Exception, rejection, and reprocessing core processing rule",
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            {
              "title": "Exception, rejection, and reprocessing exception and audit handling",
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                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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    {
      "id": "R5",
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          "id": "F9",
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              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              "title": "Notifications and subscriptions core processing rule",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
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              "title": "Notifications and subscriptions exception and audit handling",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
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        {
          "id": "F10",
          "title": "External integration and data synchronization",
          "desc": "Connect impact, evidence, owner teams, status, customer communication, workarounds, resolution, and recurrence prevention.",
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            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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            {
              "title": "External integration and data synchronization core processing rule",
              "desc": "Connect impact, evidence, owner teams, status, customer communication, workarounds, resolution, and recurrence prevention.",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
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            {
              "title": "External integration and data synchronization exception and audit handling",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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    {
      "id": "R6",
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          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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          "id": "F11",
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          "desc": "Complex customer issues lose context and accountability as they move between support, product, and engineering, delaying updates and resolution.",
          "status": "todo",
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            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              "title": "Escalation volume, time to resolution, recurrence, and customer-impact reporting core processing rule",
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                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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                }
              ]
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            {
              "title": "Escalation volume, time to resolution, recurrence, and customer-impact reporting exception and audit handling",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              ]
            }
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        },
        {
          "id": "F12",
          "title": "Role, permission, and audit management",
          "desc": "Reduce initial owner-assignment time for support escalations by 30% and eliminate missed customer-impact notices.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "mid",
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            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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            {
              "title": "Role, permission, and audit management core processing rule",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
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              ]
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            {
              "title": "Role, permission, and audit management exception and audit handling",
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                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              ]
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