So, I think we’re all in agreement that we need a definition of done for the work we ship out of a sprint. Now I think we need a similar mechanism for the work taken in to the sprint. A mechanism which ensures that the stories taken in is really ready to be taken in. Let’s call this state “Ready-Ready”.
First of all, what does “taking in” mean? Well, it means “available and up for discussion on the sprint planning meeting”. So the definition of ready needs to describe a state of stories which they must be in, in order for them to be eligible for discussion on the sprint planning. Before they have reached the Ready-Ready state the stories do not exist and will not be considered for sprint planning. I.e. the top part of the product backlog has to contain only stories which are ready-ready.
Why? To save time of course: to spare the team tedious discussions about stuff that isn’t sufficiently thought-through. To let the team focus their valuable time and energy on things that are as “safe” as possible.
So, the definition of Ready should be;
- A user story exists which points out the actor, describes the targeted feature and the purpose of it. The story should be formulated like this; As a
I want to because . The first two are often easy to pinpoint but the purpose is often overlooked, because it feels obvious. But is it? The idea with writing down the purpose is to give the reader a good feel for the context of the feature – what problem it solves. Not only what it is but also why. This way, the reader can form his own opinion on how to implement it. It gives the reader a deeper understanding for the story. - The formulation of the user story is general enough for the team to have the flexibility of delivering it in increments. Don’t describe every detail. Describe roughly what you want but leave the rest for discussion.
- The story is small enough to fit inside a sprint. Stories larger than that need to be broken down. Breaking down and reformulating stories have to be done before the sprint planning. Obviously, a story cannot be completed in a sprint if it is larger than a sprint. So care should be taken to ensure they are small enough.
- Each story has its own unique priority in relation to every other story in the product backlog. This is to ensure that the team can work on the most important things first, and to force the product owner to make intelligent decisions about the order of stories.
- The story has a description of how it can be tested (demoed). The description need to give the reader a good sense of what determines if the story is completed or not. It should be e.g. the acceptance test that is described here. It can be used as a description of how to demo the story too.
- The story has been estimated (in story points). This should preferably be done by the whole or parts of the team, but at the very least it should be done by individuals with the same understanding of the system and the domain as the team who will eventually be working on it.
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