What problem does it solve?
Product teams frequently face misalignment between high-level roadmap goals and actionable backlog tasks, leading to duplicated work, missed dependencies, and unclear priorities during software delivery. This Skill eliminates that friction by enforcing strict synchronization rules and validation checks between planning documents.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Task Lifecycle Management: Select, split, create, promote, and close local tasks while maintaining the canonical wave -> epic -> slice -> local task hierarchy.
- Document Synchronization: Ensures all changes to roadmap.md are reflected in backlog.md with no orphaned task IDs or misaligned priorities.
- Quality Validation: Enforces strict quality bars for local tasks to ensure every task is reviewable, has a single clear output, and explicit dependencies before work begins.
- Use Case: A product manager can use this Skill to decompose a large epic into small, verifiable local tasks, promote the next actionable task to the backlog queue, and track cross-wave dependencies without manual cross-checking of multiple planning files.
Quick Start
Use the backlog-ops skill to decompose the current active slice into individual reviewable local tasks and sync all changes to both the roadmap and backlog documents.