shadow-work
shadow-work is an Agile & team facilitation skill for AI agents, published by manager-dot-dev in the manager-skills repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates shadow-work C (70/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.
Helps engineering managers identify, quantify, and reduce hidden capacity drains that make teams miss commitments even when everyone is busy. Use this skill whenever the user mentions invisible work, untracked work, support requests consuming the team, glue work, shadow backlog, sprint spillover, capacity planning being wrong, teams always underestimating, senior engineers burning out, or "we are busy but nothing ships." Produces a diagnostic, evidence plan, and concrete interventions.
- Grade
- C
- Quality
- 70 / 100
- Safety
- Passed
- GitHub stars
- 97
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Our review
- Architecture
- 92 / 100
- Maturity
- Structured: ships references or scripts
- Security scan
- No issues found
- License
- MIT
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections
- Scope
- Portable: works in any project. General engineering-management method for hidden capacity drains
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