Backlog quality

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Story Health Checker

Evaluate story readiness, INVEST quality, acceptance criteria and refinement gaps in seconds.

  • INVEST qualitySix criteria, each scored from evidence found in your story.
  • Definition of ReadyOnly the dimensions that apply to this requirement.
  • Acceptance criteriaCoverage of what matters, not a count of scenarios.

A Jira or Azure DevOps story, a plain requirement, or a story with its acceptance criteria. Whatever you already have.

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Your story is not stored and is not used for training. The analysis is kept for 14 days so the same story gives the same answer.

Methodology

Why the score is what it is

Every figure is calculated from evidence by fixed weights, so a score can be argued with rather than only accepted.

Your story is not stored. The analysis is kept for 14 days, under a fingerprint of your input rather than the input itself, so the same story gives the same answer.

How the score is produced

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Questions about this utility

What the assessment does, what it refuses to do, and what happens to your story.

How it works

Using the checker

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