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PROD-06
DEV PROCESS · BACKLOG HYGIENE
Backlog Guard.
Catch backlog problems before sprint planning, not during it. WIP limits, age policies, definition-of-ready checks, and drift alerts on your Azure DevOps backlog. Free, client-side only, no backend.
- COST TO INSTALL
- Free
- YOUR DATA
- Never leaves your browser
- RUNS INSIDE
- Azure DevOps
- INSTALL
- Marketplace →
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SHOT
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FEAT
What it does.
WIP limits, visible
Set a cap per state and see the moment a team blows through it — instead of discovering it in the retro.
Age policies
Items in a state for too long get flagged. Stale stories get triaged before they rot.
Definition of Ready / Done
Required fields per state. Acceptance criteria, story points, owner — never optional again.
Drift alerts
Weekly digest: which policies were violated, by whom, how often. Self-healing process.
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FOR
Built for.
Scrum masters
Tired of policing fields manually each sprint planning.
Engineering managers
Need WIP limits actually held, not just suggested in a retro.
Process / PMO
Want consistent backlog hygiene across many teams without a process police function.
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WHY
Why we built it.
Every engagement we've run has hit the same backlog problem: agreed-on policies that quietly stop being followed by sprint 4. Telling the team to "be more disciplined" never works.
So we made the drift impossible to miss. Backlog Guard is what we run on our own dedicated-team engagements before every sprint planning — and because it's free and client-side, adding it to your organization costs nothing and exposes no data.
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DETAILS
Details.
- PricingFREE
- InstallADO MARKETPLACE · 1 CLICK
- ArchitectureNO BACKEND · CLIENT-SIDE ONLY
- FamilyPART OF AGILE ANALYTICS
- ScopePER PROJECT · PER TEAM
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NEXT
Check your backlog before Monday.
Free to install and nothing leaves your Azure DevOps organization. If your backlog is clean, it takes two minutes to prove it.