Exporting a PRD to Linear or Jira with Scriptonia takes one click after a 5-minute setup. Each user story becomes a ticket; acceptance criteria become a description checklist; the PRD is linked as a reference. This eliminates 20–30 minutes of copy-paste work per PRD and ensures acceptance criteria reach engineering exactly as written — not paraphrased in a ticket summary.
What gets exported and what doesn't
| PRD section | Linear export | Jira export |
|---|---|---|
| User stories | One Issue per story (title = story text) | One Story per user story |
| Acceptance criteria | Checklist items in Issue description | Sub-tasks or description checklist |
| Success metrics | Linked in Issue description as reference | Linked in Epic description |
| Edge cases | Not exported by default (can enable) | Not exported by default |
| PRD link | Included in every Issue description | Included in every Story description |
| Objective | Used as Epic/Project description | Used as Epic description |
Linear-specific setup
In the Scriptonia integration settings for Linear, configure:
- Default team: The Linear team where issues are created. Can be overridden per-export.
- Default project: Optional. If set, issues are automatically added to this project.
- Cycle assignment: Optional. If enabled, exported issues are added to the current cycle.
- Label: Default label applied to all exported issues (recommended: "from-prd"). Makes it easy to filter and track PRD-originated tickets.
- Status: Default status for exported issues (recommended: "Backlog" — let the engineering lead triage).
Jira-specific setup
In the Scriptonia integration settings for Jira, configure:
- Default project: The Jira project key (e.g., PROD) where issues are created.
- Issue type mapping: Map PRD user stories to Jira issue types. Recommended: objective → Epic, user stories → Story, acceptance criteria → Sub-tasks (or inline checklist if Sub-tasks create too much noise).
- Component: Optional. Assign a default component to exported issues.
- Label: Apply a label to distinguish PRD-exported tickets (recommended: "scriptonia-prd").
What to do before you export
The quality of the export is determined by the quality of the PRD. Before exporting, verify three things in the generated PRD:
- User stories are specific. "As a PM with a rough idea..." is specific. "As a user..." is not and will produce a vague ticket title that engineers will rename.
- Acceptance criteria are testable. Each criterion should start with "Given..." and end with an observable outcome. Criteria that say "the feature works as expected" should be replaced before export.
- Story point estimates are reasonable. Scriptonia estimates story points based on complexity signals in the PRD. Review these — the estimate is a starting point for engineering refinement, not a commitment.
The time savings in practice
| Task | Manual copy-paste | Scriptonia export |
|---|---|---|
| Create tickets from user stories | 5–8 min (per PRD with 5 stories) | 30 seconds |
| Add acceptance criteria to tickets | 10–15 min | Included in export |
| Link PRD reference to tickets | 3–5 min | Included in export |
| Apply labels and project | 2–3 min | Configured once; automatic |
| Total per PRD | 20–31 min | 30 seconds |
For a PM generating 4 PRDs per week, the export automation saves approximately 80–120 minutes per week — or 65–100 hours per year — in manual ticket creation. That time goes back to product thinking, customer conversations, and the work that actually moves the needle.