Story: Sprint health review — System 2 analysis

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This page documents a story in Sprint 19. It captures the goal, current status, acceptance criteria, and the tasks that compose it.

Goal

Periodic System 2 health checks for sprint 19 using the sprint-reviewer skill. Each review produces a structured health report written into sprint.org under * Health Review, covering goal alignment, load, PR velocity, story/task balance, focus signal, and an overall red/amber/green verdict. Reviews are deliberately slow and critical — they question whether stories serve sprint goals and whether the team is focused — rather than merely summarising status.

Status

Field Value
State DONE
Parent sprint Sprint 19
Now Nothing.
Waiting on Nothing.
Next Nothing.
Last touched 2026-06-06

Acceptance

  • Each invocation of sprint-reviewer produces a * Health Review section written into sprint.org covering:
    • Goal alignment — story coverage per sprint goal; uncovered goals and stories with no clear goal flagged.
    • Sprint load — commit count, elapsed days, commits/day, projected total; verdict against ≤ 300 commit / ≤ 7 day targets.
    • PR velocity — PRs merged per day, open PRs, WIP accumulation.
    • Story and task balance — undecomposed stories, longest-open STARTED stories, DONE/total ratio.
    • Focus signal — simultaneously STARTED stories; cross-cutting themes.
    • Overall verdict — red/amber/green per dimension, one-paragraph narrative.
  • The section is idempotent: re-running replaces the existing block.
  • Each review round is recorded in a dedicated task with the full findings in * Result; only a short summary link remains in sprint.org.

Tasks

Task State Start End Description
Health review 1 — sprint 19 mid-sprint analysis DONE 2026-05-31 2026-05-31 First System 2 health review: AMBER. Off-mission codegen/tooling crowding out the refdata commissioning goal.
Health review 2 — sprint 19 late-sprint analysis DONE 2026-06-03 2026-06-03 Second System 2 health review: late-sprint analysis against sprint goals.
Health review 3 — sync finished stories and tasks DONE 2026-06-05 2026-06-05 Backlog-refinement pass; built compass sprint audit and synced lagging story/task state.
Health review 4 — post-merge paperwork sync DONE 2026-06-05 2026-06-06 Audit-driven cleanup after the latest merges; retired the task-finish capture. PR #1101.
Health review 5 — sprint 19 close analysis DONE 2026-06-06 2026-06-06 Fifth System 2 review: RED — close the sprint; tooling delivered, mission carried to sprint 20. Shape completeness pass over all closed tasks.

Decisions

  • Uses the existing Sprint health review — System 2 analysis pattern established in sprint 18; no new tooling required.
  • Full review content lives in the task * Result section, not in sprint.org, to keep the sprint doc concise.

Out of scope

  • Automated remediation of story or task state.
  • Historical comparison across sprints.
  • Blocking CI or PRs on health verdicts.

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