From the course: Scrum: The Basics
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Set boundaries for success
- Your next step is to create boundaries that your team can use to complete this work. These guidelines include the team's definition of done, prioritizing your backlog, and establishing your sprint cadence. First, your team needs to define done for their stories. I know each story has its own acceptance criteria, but this definition is a little bit more general. This definition of done states the minimum requirements for all stories. Since these apply to everything in your backlog, you don't want to repeat these things in the AC of every story. Creating this overarching definition of done helps save time, while allowing more precision in the story's specific AC. Examples of done criteria for all stories are: For a story on our team to be considered done, it has been tested in the prerelease environment. Or, how about, for a story on our team to be considered done, it has been code-reviewed and all errors fixed. Next…
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