Ticket templates

Task checklist ticket template

Not every ticket is a user story. Technical work like infrastructure, refactoring or chores is clearer as a summary plus a checklist of concrete steps, so anyone picking it up can see progress at a glance.

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The template

**Title**:
[Tag] Task summary

**Task Checklist**
- [ ] Task 1
- [ ] Task 2
- [ ] Task 3

### Notes
- Dependencies: ...
- Testing required: ...

Example: from rough idea to ticket

What you type into KanBandit, and the ticket it turns into with this template.

Your input

set up nightly postgres backups to s3, keep 14 days, alert us if a backup fails

Generated ticket

[Infra] Set up nightly PostgreSQL backups to S3

Task Checklist

Create a private S3 bucket with a 14-day lifecycle rule
Add a nightly job (02:00 UTC) that runs pg_dump and uploads the compressed dump
Give the job write-only credentials for the bucket
Send an alert to the team channel when a backup fails or is missing
Restore the latest backup into a scratch database to verify it

Notes

Dependencies: AWS account access, alerting channel webhook
Testing required: one successful restore before closing the ticket

Tips for better task tickets

01Start each item with a verb
"Create", "Add", "Verify": every checklist item should be an action someone can finish and tick off.
02Make the last item a check
End with how you know it works, like a test restore or a smoke test. Otherwise "done" is a matter of opinion.
03Keep items small
If one item takes more than a day, it is a ticket of its own. Small items keep the checklist honest about progress.
04Name the dependencies
Access, credentials and other teams are what blocks tasks. Listing them up front saves the first day of waiting.

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