Backlog Groomer & Prioritizer

On the schedule you choose, a triage agent reads raw ideas, scores them with the right prioritization framework, ranks them with explicit reasoning, self-critiques the ranking, and proposes a groomed backlog for you to approve.

Saves you ~1.5 h / week

Start with this playbook

How it works

Trigger
On the “Groom the backlog” schedule.
Job
Score, deduplicate, rank, and route backlog items.
Outcome
A deduplicated, evidence-ranked backlog ready for approval.

What it installs

Agents 2

  • Triage Agent

    Scores raw ideas, ranks them with stated reasoning, and proposes a groomed backlog.

  • Backlog Groomer & Prioritizer Quality Reviewer

    Checks primary evidence, domain controls, deliverable completeness, and communication quality, stopping the run when the work is wrong, unsupported, incomplete, or uncertain.

Teams 1

  • Backlog Groomer & Prioritizer quality team

    The delivery agents produce the work while an independent quality reviewer checks each workflow handoff against explicit evidence, domain, and communication requirements before the run can continue.

Workflows 1

  • Groom backlog

    Read ideas, choose a framework and score them, rank, self-critique the ranking, and hand off for approval.

Goals 1

  • Backlog stays groomed

    The backlog is regularly scored and ranked so the next bet is always clear. Success looks like: After each run, the backlog has an approved top-set ranking with every item either scored under the chosen framework or flagged 'needs clarification' — no stale, unscored items.

Skills 3

  • prioritize-features

    Evaluate a backlog of feature ideas against impact, effort, risk, and strategic alignment and recommend the top 5 with rationale, trade-offs, and what was deprioritised. Adapted from phuryn/pm-skills/prioritize-features.

  • prioritization-frameworks

    Select and apply the right prioritization framework — Opportunity Score, ICE, RICE, MoSCoW, Kano, weighted matrix — with formulas and when-to-use guidance. Adapted from phuryn/pm-skills/prioritization-frameworks.

  • prioritization-advisor

    Choose a prioritization framework from product stage, team context, decision need, and data availability, avoiding framework whiplash and wrong-fit scoring. Adapted from deanpeters/product-manager-skills/prioritization-advisor.

Schedules 1

  • Groom the backlog

    Runs backlog grooming on the schedule you choose. ## Professional quality control Objective: complete the recurring Backlog Groomer & Prioritizer operating cycle and deliver a review-ready, evidence-backed result rather than merely report that the schedule ran. Start by fixing the review period, reading the current source records and prior run, confirming required access, and listing missing or contradictory inputs. Execute the bundle's full authored method in order, retaining source, calculation, command, or before/after evidence for load-bearing findings. Separate facts from interpretation, apply supplied policy without inventing thresholds, and stop any branch that requires missing authority or an unconfirmed human rule. Produce the complete named deliverable plus an evidence record, assumptions, exceptions, unresolved questions, and concrete next actions with owners where the method calls for them. Run the workflow's independent verifier checks and fix failures before requesting approval. The task is done only when every requested section and quality criterion passes or a blocker is explicit; silence, inaccessible data, or polished prose is not proof of completion. Trace priorities and requirements to user or business evidence, make outcomes and acceptance tests observable, state trade-offs and dependencies, and reject solution smuggling. Product prose must be concrete and decision-ready, without generic AI phrasing, framework filler, vague outcomes, or certainty unsupported by discovery. The human retains authority over publication, sending, spend, signing, merging, deployment, and other consequential external actions.

Setup guide

How to Automate Backlog Grooming and Prioritization

A practical guide to grooming a product backlog with an agent: framework selection, recomputable scoring, ranked top sets, and approval on every ranking.

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