Agile teams employ short statements that serve as indicators of what “done” means for a specific user story. That is, Acceptance Criteria define desired behavior and determine whether a work item has been successfully developed. Acceptance Criteria work in conjunction with the Definition of Done, in that Acceptance Criteria are user-story-specific, while the Definition of...Read More

In Scrum, there is a way of formally articulating the nature of the commitment for any work that is consider complete, and thus part of the “Increment.” Thus a Definition of Done (DoD) is an agreement for a team or teams that sets a standard for achieving a “Done” user story, in conjunction with user-story-specific...Read More

It is common for Scrum teams to employ a number that expresses the total volume of work they have completed during an iteration (Sprint), where those completed work items all satisfy the work-item-specific Acceptance Criteria, along with a global Definition of Done. A Sprint is a recurring event, and through the repetition of a set...Read More

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