What you get
Three deliverables. One clear recommendation.
By the end of the pilot you'll have evidence — not opinions — about where your stories fail and what to do next.
Baseline story-health report
Your 'before' picture — where stories are failing today and which gaps create the most downstream churn.
Pilot results readout
What improved, what didn't, and why — measured against the baseline with real tickets from your team.
Rollout recommendation
A concrete plan for scaling Vindex across teams and projects, including quality-gate thresholds and template changes.
A defensible answer to the three questions that matter.
Every engineering leader running a quality initiative needs to justify the investment. The pilot is built around producing that justification — with numbers from your own backlog.
- 01
Are our requirements becoming easier to estimate, test, and deliver?
- 02
Which requirement gaps create the most downstream churn?
- 03
Where should we focus coaching and templates to improve the fastest?
What we handle
We do the setup. Your team focuses on the feedback.
The pilot is designed to run without disrupting delivery. We handle configuration, calibration, and rollout so the only thing your teams see is sharper feedback on the stories they're already writing.
Connection and configuration
- Connect Vindex to your project management tool — Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Trello, or Monday
- Map the fields your teams actually use: summary, description, acceptance criteria, linked issues, and custom fields
- Set evaluation triggers — on create, on update, on status change, or scheduled
Scoring and guidance tuning
- Align scoring to how your teams write stories today
- Calibrate guidance so it's specific — not generic, not noisy
- Establish a shared 'what good looks like' rubric grounded in INVEST
Rollout support
- Internal rollout plan — who sees what, when
- Before/after examples your team can copy
- Optional template changes to reduce the most common recurring gaps
Timeline
Three weeks. No delivery disruption.
A simple cadence — connect, tune, measure — built so your teams keep shipping while the pilot runs in the background.
- Week 101
Connect and baseline
- Connect your project management tool and confirm field mapping
- Evaluate a representative set of existing stories
- Deliver the baseline story-health report
- Week 202
Tune and apply to live stories
- Tune guidance to reduce false positives
- Start delivering feedback directly on live tickets
- Collect early adoption and usage signals
- Week 303
Measure and readout
- Compare baseline against current story health
- Identify the top recurring requirement gaps
- Deliver results readout and scaling recommendation
Who the pilot is for
Teams that want measurable improvement in requirement quality without adding process overhead. You're likely a good fit if you're seeing unplanned scope, mid-sprint discovery, or stories that consistently carry over.
Includes
- White-glove setup on your project management tool
- Baseline, readout, and rollout deliverables
- A short kickoff and weekly sync with our team
- No commitment beyond the three-week engagement