Setting a story health threshold below which work should not enter a sprint, and what that prevents downstream.
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Backlog grooming should not come down to whoever speaks the loudest. Vindex is now on the Atlassian Marketplace, scoring story quality inside Jira so weak requirements surface before they reach a sprint.
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.
A story looks ready on Friday and blocks a developer on Monday. Here is how small teams catch vague, oversized, and untestable work before it burns their scarcest resource — developer time.
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.
