What must developers check if their user story does not appear as available for back promotion?

If a user story does not appear as available for back promotion, it is important for developers to verify whether it has been marked as excluded from Continuous Back Promotion Management (CBM). When a user story is excluded from CBM, it will not show up for back promotion, irrespective of its status or references. This exclusion could be due to various reasons, such as project decisions to exclude certain stories from being back-promoted, which ensures that only relevant stories are available for such processes.

Checking for pending approval, insufficient references, or that the user story is saved in the correct project are relevant considerations, but they do not directly affect the visibility of a user story in terms of back promotion. Thus, confirming the exclusion status is the first and most critical step in troubleshooting the issue of why a user story is not available for back promotion.