1. Definition of Done – why it matters
Helen Wassef
@hw0809

2. About Me Helen Wassef Email: helen.wassef@gmail.com

3. Outcomes vs Activities
Are you activity or outcome driven?

4. DoD – Setting Expectations
Defines what conditions must be met for potentially shippable code
Outcome based team vs activity based team
Sets collective team expectation and eliminates assumptions
Drives common understanding around quality

5. Crafting the Definition of Done
Quality is never an accident, it is the result of an intelligent effort. – John Ruskin
Get everyone in a room to brainstorm
Vote and agree on an achievable DoD
Document it, print it, make it visible
Different levels of Definition of Done
Include testing requirements
Level of testing
Type of testing
Automated testing
Include all involved roles

6. Building the Right Thing the Right way
Driven by acceptance criteria
Focus on value
Solving user problems
Leads to…
Happy users
Happy teams
Strong reputation
Driven by definition of done
Readable code
Productive code reviews
Quality Gates
High quality unit tests
High quality automated tests
Collaborative effort
Culture built around preventing fires not fire fighting

7. Definition of Done Characteristics
Criteria
Inclusion List
Accepted
Achievable
Mitigates risk
how we design
how we version
how we code
how we test
how we document
how we deploy
Approval process

8. Levels of Definition of Done
Release
Feature
User Story
Compliance requirements are met
Non technical work identified
Supporting material & documentation published
Deployment standards met
All the underlying user stories are done
Accepted by users
Quality metrics
Coding standards
PO & team agreements

9. Integrated Teams – DoD
What if multiple teams are working on same product?
Do they need some level of commonality in their DoD?

10. Who owns DoD
The development team
The Product Owner
Architects

11. During Marking User story Done
When it matters
Quality is not an act, it is a habit – Aristotle
Grooming sessions
Planning Day
During the sprint
During Marking User story Done

12. Definition of Done Evolution
High performing teams will evolve the DoD

13. Summary DoD drives outcome focused culture vs activity focused
Get together, brainstorm and outline DoD wish list
Vote and publish DoD
Make it visible
Enforce
Periodically revisit and make changes