Does your Agile team follows — Definition of Done?
DOD is a very common discussion for those who work on agile teams. Not all teams follows the exact criteria for Definition of Done. DOD vary from team to team but it should be consistent within the team. A user story gets ready for release only if that feature is considered as “Done”. It is important to identify a DOD that works for your team and your business needs and ensure everyone in the team understands the DOD manifesto. As a team matures, we expect it to adapt its DOD to ensure higher quality.
Here are some of the ways, where we can enforce DOD across teams successfully.
· Use a clear DOD Manifesto or Checklist for user stories that are checked against.
· Scrum Masters and Product Owners have to make these Checklist as Mandate.
· Ensure the increment shipped at the end of the sprint has high quality and that the quality is well understood by all involved.
Following up the manifesto is very much important and each organization can visualize their strategy and they can tweek it accordingly.
The below manifesto covered almost all the key activities that we follow up in the agile teams. I have taken this image from Naren’s scratch pad and would like to give credits for him too.
As we have Epic, Features and Stories, DOD can be different for each of these categories and here are some examples for each.
All these will helps us to deliver valuable product to our customers and meet our business goals.
