Chapter 13Deconstructing the Done Product Increment
It’s super important that everyone on a Scrum team knows what constitutes “done” for a specific project. Otherwise, you’ll end up having conversations like this:
- Product Owner:
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Hey, I’m just checking in on the new shopping cart for our site. I had a customer ask about it, so I thought I’d see if it’s available for a quick demo.
- Development Team:
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Of course, the shopping cart is done.
- Product Owner:
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It’s done? That’s great. Let’s go ahead and deploy it early. This could really help on the next sales calls. Great job everyone!
- Development Team:
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Well wait…we can’t deploy it. We don’t have the build scripts ready and the database changes are still being worked on, plus the unit tests aren’t complete ...
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