Manage Backlog
Skill Verified ActiveCreate and maintain a product or project backlog with prioritized items, acceptance criteria, and estimates. Covers user story writing, MoSCoW prioritization, backlog grooming, item splitting, and status tracking. Use when starting a new project and converting scope into actionable items, during ongoing grooming before sprint planning, re-prioritizing after stakeholder feedback or scope changes, or splitting oversized items into implementable pieces.
To establish and manage a clear, prioritized product or project backlog, ensuring actionable work items are well-defined and aligned with project goals.
Features
- Create and maintain product backlogs
- Write user stories and requirements
- Apply MoSCoW and Value/Effort prioritization
- Groom backlog items, including splitting
- Track item status and manage archives
Use Cases
- Starting new projects and converting scope into actionable items
- Ongoing backlog grooming before sprint planning
- Re-prioritizing work after stakeholder feedback or scope changes
- Splitting oversized items into implementable pieces
Non-Goals
- Managing sprint execution or task assignment
- Generating project status reports
- Conducting full project retrospectives
Practices
- Project management
- Agile methodologies
Installation
/plugin install agent-almanac@pjt222-agent-almanacQuality Score
VerifiedTrust Signals
Similar Extensions
Horizon Track
100Track long-horizon objectives across multiple sessions with milestone checkpoints, progress persistence, and drift detection
Sprint Plan
100Plan a sprint with capacity estimation, story selection, dependency mapping, and risk identification. Use when preparing for sprint planning, estimating team capacity, selecting stories, or balancing sprint scope against velocity.
Project Development
100This skill should be used when the user asks to "start an LLM project", "design batch pipeline", "evaluate task-model fit", "structure agent project", or mentions pipeline architecture, agent-assisted development, cost estimation, or choosing between LLM and traditional approaches.
Claude Ops
100Autonomous multi-project orchestration engine. Audits all registered projects, structures work into dependency-wired tasks, dispatches parallel agents (subagents or Agent Teams), audits completions, and ships PRs. Registry-driven — works for any user with a configured project registry.
Notion Spec To Implementation
100Turns product or tech specs into concrete Notion tasks that Claude code can implement. Breaks down spec pages into detailed implementation plans with clear tasks, acceptance criteria, and progress tracking to guide development from requirements to completion.
Atlassian Mcp
100Integrates with Atlassian products to manage project tracking and documentation via MCP protocol. Use when querying Jira issues with JQL filters, creating and updating tickets with custom fields, searching or editing Confluence pages with CQL, managing sprints and backlogs, setting up MCP server authentication, syncing documentation, or debugging Atlassian API integrations.