When a user story is groomed, that is all the acceptance criteria are defined and story points are given along all the dependencies are addressed, then we can call a story as meeting the DoR criteria. It also is termed Ready to cook. That means the user story is ready to be pulled into the…
Month: November 2019
Definition of Done (DoD)
When all the goals of a user story are achieved, we say, “DoD” is met. That means whatever was defined in the acceptance criteria has been full-filled along with any other default requirement like meeting performance threshold etc. DoD also means that all the work done in that user story is now ready to be…
Acceptance Criteria
Acceptance criteria are the condition that needs to be full-filled for a user story to be DOD. It talks about the objectives of user stories and tries to include as many user scenarios as it can. A user story without having acceptance criteria cannot be considered as DOR. In Agile/Scrum methodology, acceptance criteria are a…
User Story
A user story in the agile/scrum model is defined as the software requirement that talks specifically about a single feature of an application. It’s written in the following format. As an application user, I want a feature so that I can perform some action. Let’s assume we are making a WhatsApp-like application and we want…
What is an Epic?
In the scrum model, Epic defines a high-level expectation of a feature or software. For example, when you want to build software that keeps a track of your sales, an Epic can be “As a business owner, I want to build a software which I can use to keep the record of my sales”. Now…
The First Time Rule
Change Management Change management may seem easy in its definition but it is a very difficult task. From the book, we know that accepting change easily and starting working as per new processes is change management. Adaptability and flexibility are the two known words that we associate with change and we think we have these qualities…