Setting a story health threshold below which work should not enter a sprint, and what that prevents downstream.
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A healthcare technology company was losing 340 engineering hours a month to unclear requirements. After scoring story health before code, they cut rework 68%, recovered $564K a year, and caught HIPAA gaps in refinement instead of UAT.
When a ticket looks done on Friday but blocks a developer on Monday, lean teams are playing Requirements Roulette. Here is how small teams catch vague, oversized, and untestable work before it burns their scarcest resource.
Inside a pilot where an automotive manufacturer ran 400,000 Jira tickets through Vindex. The lowest-scoring requirements traced to $1.2 billion in software-related recall costs. The highest-scoring traced to zero.
