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impediment-prioritization
Ranks any list of impediments and their countermeasures using a value-stream scoring model (ROI, Cost to Implement, Ease of Deployment, Risk Factor) and a fixed prioritization formula. Use when someone asks to prioritize, rank, sequence, or triage impediments, countermeasures, remediation items, risks, findings, gaps, action items, or backlog entries; or mentions value-stream prioritization, A3 / lean countermeasure ranking, ROI vs. effort scoring, or building a remediation / improvement backlog. Works with GHQR findings, audit results, retrospective action items, risk registers, architecture review gaps, or any free-form `{impediment, countermeasure}` list.
Why this skill is useful
Provides a structured scoring model for prioritizing impediments that the AI wouldn't generate on its own.
What it needs
About 5k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 37,534 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Impediment Prioritization Skill A domain-agnostic skill for ranking impediments and their countermeasures. Works with any {impediment, countermeasure} list — GHQR findings, audit results, retro action items, risk registers, architecture review gaps, etc. When to Activate Activate when the user: Asks to prioritize, rank, sequence, or triage impediments, gaps, risks, findings, or remediation items Provides a list of impediments with proposed countermeasures (or asks you to propose countermeasures for a list of problems) Asks "what should we fix first" on any improvement / remediation backlog Mentions value-stream prioritization, A3 countermeasures, ROI-vs-effort, or lean impediment ranking Inputs Accepted input: a list of {impediment, countermeasure} pairs. Sources include (non-exhaustive): Source Maps to Impediment Maps to Countermeasure -------- --------------------- ------------------------- GHQR / health-check findings Finding or gap (Status ≠ Expected) Recommendation / expected value Audit results Non-conformance Remediation action Retrospective "What went wrong" item Agreed improvement Risk register Risk Mitigation Architecture review Gap vs. target state Proposed change User free-form list Problem statement Proposed fix Rules: One countermeasure per impediment. If the input suggests multiple remediation paths, select the primary one and note alternatives in the rationale — do not emit multiple rows for the same impediment. Collapse duplicates before scoring. If a source link / citation is available, attach it to the countermeasure. If a confidence level is available on the source, surface it as an optional Confidence column. Scoring Rubric (1–10 scales) Score each impediment's countermeasure against all four criteria. See references/scoring-rubric.md for anchoring examples at the 1 / 5 / 10 levels across multiple domains (platform engineering, security, SRE, application development, governance). …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills github/impediment-prioritization