The Team moved all stories (except the last one) to “Done.” Quite a successful sprint that was! But in the next sprint, things didn’t go so well. First of all, the new software still had to be integrated into the main product. Then they had to create the release packages to release the new software to production. They suddenly realized they hadn’t planned for that.
So they adapted the plan, did the work, and went on with the new sprint. But then the bug reports started flowing in…
In a talk to Google, Jeff Sutherland, coinventor of Scrum, explains the evolution of the Definition of Done at PatientKeeper. First a feature was considered done when it was unit tested, but the stakeholders were not very happy ...
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