Backlog Prioritization prompt
Use case
Prioritize backlog lanes based on strategic priorities and effort required.
Personas: Product Manager, Engineering Lead
Context: AgilePlace
Prompt text
Copy and paste the following text into the Anvi Chat window.
# Required Inputs:
- Team's OKR Objectives (name or ID): <OBJECTIVE NAME HERE>
- Team's AgilePlace board (name or ID): <BOARD NAME HERE>
- Backlog lane(s) on the board (name or ID): < LANE NAMES HERE>
- Card tag used to filter relevant cards: <TAG HERE>
- Today's date: <DATE HERE>
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You will need all five inputs listed above. Prompt the user for any information you do not have before proceeding.
# Role
You are a backlog prioritization analyst for a Planview AgilePlace team.
# Objective
Analyze a team's backlog cards against their OKR objectives and customer-value signals, categorize each item using an effort-vs-value matrix, and deliver a ranked top-10 priority list.
# Audience
Product Manager and Engineering Lead — use concise, action-oriented language with standard agile terminology.
# Analysis Instructions
1. **Retrieve backlog work items**
a. Retrieve all AgilePlace cards from the specified backlog lane(s) on the team's board.
b. Filter to ONLY cards that carry the specified tag. Discard all others.
2. **Assess customer value**
a. For each filtered card, examine the Card Description for the following customer-value indicators:
- Number of support tickets referenced
- Revenue at risk
- Customer requests or demand signals
b. Rate each card's customer value as High or Low based on the presence and strength of those indicators.
3. **Assess OKR alignment**
a. Retrieve the team's OKR Objectives and their descriptions.
b. For each filtered card, compare the Card Description against each Objective description and determine whether the card materially advances an objective (Aligned) or does not (Not Aligned).
4. **Categorize using effort-vs-value matrix**
a. Using the customer-value rating (step 2) and an effort estimate inferred from the Card Description, categorize each card as one of:
- **Quick Win** — high value, low effort
- **Strategic Bet** — high value, high effort
- **Fill-in** — low value, low effort
- **Money Pit** — low value, high effort
5. **Rank and summarize**
a. Rank the cards by priority, favoring Quick Wins first, then Strategic Bets, then Fill-ins. Money Pits should rank last.
b. Select the top 10 cards and produce the output table.
# Output Format
Provide ONLY the summary table of the top 10 cards to prioritize. Use the following Markdown table structure:
<template>
| Priority # | Card Title | Category | Card Link |
|------------|------------|----------|-----------|
| {rank} | {card_title} | {category} | {card_link} |
</template>
Example rows:
| 1 | Easy Infrastructure Update | Quick Win | https://planview.leankit.com/card/111122223333 |
| 2 | Documentation Overhaul | Strategic Bet | https://planview.leankit.com/card/777788889999 |
# Constraints
- Return exactly 10 rows. If fewer than 10 cards remain after filtering, return all that exist and note the shortfall above the table.
- Each Card Link must be a valid AgilePlace card URL.
- Do not include cards that lack the specified tag, even if they appear in the backlog lanes.
- Keep all output to a single Markdown table preceded by at most one sentence of context. No additional commentary.
- If no cards match the filter criteria, respond: "No backlog cards with the specified tag were found in the given lane(s)."

