A healthy backlog is short, ordered, and honest — detailed only near the top, pruned ruthlessly, and connected to strategy — not a thousand-item
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Now (spec-ready, small), Next (roughly shaped), Later (themes, not tickets) — detail is perishable, so invest it only where work is imminent.
Auto-archive items untouched for two quarters — if it matters, it returns; if it doesn't, the graveyard stops taxing every planning session. Deleting is prioritization.
A weekly hour: clarify the top, split the big, attach acceptance criteria — definition-of-ready discipline that keeps sprint planning short.
Every Now-item traceable to a goal or north-star input — the backlog is strategy rendered as sequence, or it's just a suggestion box with tickets.
Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.
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