Jira backlog health for Product Owners

Know if your Jira backlog is ready before sprint planning starts.

Product Delivery Health checks your backlog for missing estimates, empty descriptions, old issues and unstructured work — so you can fix planning risks before the meeting.

Built on Atlassian Forge · Read-only Jira access · No external servers · No telemetry · Free up to 10 users

The problem

Backlog surprises are expensive

Planning starts with unknowns

Missing estimates, vague descriptions and old tickets make sprint planning slower, less predictable and more political than it needs to be.

Jira has the data, but not the answer

The information is somewhere in Jira — usually behind filters, boards, issue lists, JQL and a small emotional breakdown.

Backlog decay is easy to miss

Old, unassigned or poorly described issues quietly pile up until the next planning session turns into cleanup instead of prioritization.

See backlog readiness at a glance

Product Delivery Health scores your backlog from 0 to 100 and highlights the issues that need attention before sprint planning.

  • Detect issues without story point estimates
  • Find empty or unclear descriptions
  • Spot old and untouched backlog items
  • See work without an epic
  • Compare backlog health with last week
  • Jump directly to matching Jira issues in one click
Jira backlog health dashboard showing backlog score, health dimensions and issue warnings
Backlog breakdown by epic and issue type in Jira

Understand where future work is concentrated

The backlog breakdown shows how backlog issues are distributed across epics and issue types. It helps you spot overloaded areas, unstructured work and forgotten items before they become sprint problems.

  • Backlog grouped by epic
  • Issue type breakdown inside each epic
  • “No epic” visibility for unstructured work
  • Story point based view, or issue count if your team does not estimate

Safe to try on your Jira board

Product Delivery Health is built on Atlassian Forge. It reads Jira data to render the dashboard and stores app data inside Atlassian Forge Storage. No customer data is sent to Baking Dog systems or third-party services.

  • Read-only Jira access — the app does not create, modify or delete Jira issues
  • No external servers, databases or cloud infrastructure operated by Baking Dog
  • No telemetry, tracking pixels or third-party analytics inside the app
  • Focus Notes are private to each user; roadmaps are shared per board

Clean up planning risks before planning starts.

Try Product Delivery Health on your Jira board and see backlog health in one place.

Try it free in Jira