review-tasks-decomposition

Task decomposition review audits feature breakdowns across five categories: granularity, completeness, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and estimability. It produces a findings report that evaluates whether tasks are appropriately sized and clearly defined for reliable software delivery.

Task granularity analysis detects tasks that are too large or too small for reliable delivery. It evaluates whether individual task sizes within a feature decomposition allow for accurate estimation and manageable execution during the software development lifecycle.

Verify acceptance criteria and dependencies by auditing the task list for measurable, testable criteria on each task, while identifying explicit and implicit dependencies and critical-path issues. This ensures completeness across plan phases, setup, teardown, and testing requirements.

Yes, you can audit existing plans retrospectively. The review checks completeness by ensuring coverage of plan phases, setup and teardown tasks, and testing requirements, then reports any gaps found in the feature's task decomposition.

The best way to structure feature task reviews is to place tasks in .sdlc/features/FEAT-NNNN-<slug>/tasks/ with an optional plan.md. The review enforces a structured workflow by updating task frontmatter statuses and maintaining a progress log under the feature directory.