Iteration Health

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name: iteration-health
description: Diagnose and improve the health of an iterative delivery cycle by exposing blockers, work-in-progress, unclear commitments, and process friction.
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# Iteration Health

Use when a team or multi-agent workflow is repeatedly missing commitments, accumulating blockers, or losing visibility.

## Procedure
1. Review the current goal, committed outcomes, active work, blocked work, and unfinished carryover.
2. Distinguish delivery problems from planning problems: oversized work, hidden dependencies, unclear acceptance, overloaded owners, or unstable priority.
3. Identify where work is waiting rather than progressing.
4. Surface blockers with the decision or dependency needed to clear each one.
5. Reduce work-in-progress where it is creating queueing or context switching.
6. Facilitate a short retrospective focused on evidence: what helped, what hurt, and one or two changes worth testing next iteration.
7. Track whether the process change improved flow rather than treating ceremonies as success.

## Quality gate
The intervention should make ownership and flow clearer. Do not add meetings, status rituals, or process rules unless they solve an observed coordination problem.