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Acceptance Criteria

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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 Done is global. To cite a more formal definition of Acceptance Criteria, from IEEE 610: “The external quality characteristics specified by the product owner (or a proxy for the PO) from a business or stakeholder perspective.”

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Acknowledgements

Authored by Philip Rogers

Adaption by Karl Smith

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