WD-11
Parent Initiative Acceptance Criteria Coverage Below Threshold
Work Definition
Default severity: medium
Product BacklogEstimationProcessQuality
What it detects
share of children with non-empty AC under a parent is below configured percent; tests; catalogue.
Detection formula
No published identification formula is available yet for this rule.Examples in practice
- Work items enter active flow without the definition fields the team agreed on.
- Stories or features lack the metadata needed to verify readiness or completion.
- A team shows share of children with non-empty ac under a parent is below configured percent; tests; catalogue during analysis.
Suggested response
Bring acceptance criteria, sizing, and metadata in line with your definition of ready and done.
Coaching playbook
Symptom
The "Parent Initiative Acceptance Criteria Coverage Below Threshold" signal shows a repeatable delivery anti-pattern on the cited issues.
Why it matters
When "Parent Initiative Acceptance Criteria Coverage Below Threshold" keeps appearing, the team is signalling a repeatable process gap. Left unexamined, the pattern hides where work really stalls and makes improvement metrics harder to trust.
What you can achieve
Bring acceptance criteria, sizing, and metadata in line with your definition of ready and done.
Facilitation questions
- What system change would stop "Parent Initiative Acceptance Criteria Coverage Below Threshold" from firing again?
- What do the cited issues have in common — same root cause or same workaround?
- Who owns the two-week experiment and how will we verify on the next import?
Run this rule against your own tracker data with Flow Analyzer.