What is PushBackLog?
PushBackLog (PBL) is an AI-augmented product delivery platform that guides you from raw idea through validated backlog item to shipped feature.
The Five-Zone Delivery Model
PBL organises delivery into five discrete zones:
| Zone | Name | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Discovery | Capture ideas and explore opportunities |
| 2 | Definition | Refine ideas into ready backlog items |
| 3 | Execution | Deliver work through AI Pods and execution runs |
| 4 | Validation | Validate outcomes against acceptance criteria |
| 5 | Retrospective | Learn and improve through structured reflection |
First Steps After Sign-Up
When you first sign up, the onboarding wizard walks you through all essential setup steps — naming your organisation, confirming your company profile, selecting AI team personas, connecting GitHub, creating your first project, setting quality gates, and inviting teammates. See the Onboarding article for a step-by-step guide.
After the wizard completes:
- Create a project — Navigate to the Projects page from the sidebar and click New Project. Give it a name and a short key (e.g.
BL). - Add backlog items — Open a project and click New Item in the backlog, or use Quick Intake to create items from a plain-text description with AI assistance.
- Refine your items — Use the AI refinement assistant to add acceptance criteria, edge cases, and validation steps. Only items with a quality score of 80+ are considered “ready”.
- Invite your team — Go to Settings → Company → Members to invite teammates and assign roles.
Navigation
The sidebar on the left gives you access to every zone:
- Dashboard — high-level overview of active projects and recent activity
- Projects — all your projects
- Backlog (inside a project) — list and kanban views of all items
- Ideas — the Idea Log for capturing discoveries before they become backlog items
- Personas — team persona definitions and AI-generated suggestions
- AI Pods — configurable AI agents that execute backlog items autonomously
- Runs — history of all AI Pod execution runs across all projects
- Library — best practices knowledge base
- Settings — company, personal, and GitHub integration preferences
- Help — this help centre and the AI assistant
Key Concepts
- Backlog item — any unit of work (story, feature, bug, spike, etc.) tracked in a project
- Theme — a grouping concept like an epic; items can be assigned to one or more themes
- Decision — a recorded architectural or product decision linked to the items it affects
- Diary entry — a note attached to a backlog item tracking progress, blockers, and observations
- Work log — timed entries recording how long was spent on a backlog item