Go / No-Go Gate

Diagnostic tool Backlog Readiness Check

Your backlog does not need grooming. It needs interrogation.

The standard

Five gates. One awkward mirror.

Any gate at 0 means not ready. All five at 2 means ready. Everything else is the uncomfortable middle where most roadmap promises are born.

Public diagnostic

Pick a case file.

Three sample items. Three levels of backlog maturity. One quiet accusation against the phrase “we can refine it later.”

Try your own

Sanitized backlog chaos only.

Paste a cleaned-up epic, story, or business ask. This public page shows the scoring path, not live AI grading. Because even satire needs a privacy policy and a chair in Legal.

Privacy warning: Do not paste confidential data. The satire is public. Keep customer, employee, legal, security, financial, and proprietary details out of the demo.

Sanitized item

This public demo does not grade pasted text yet. The live version scores your item against the same five gates, returns the verdict, exposes the gaps, and rewrites the ask into something a team could actually build. Tiny miracle. Mildly accusatory.