Implementing Domain-Driven Design

Is It the Team Member’s Job?

One important question has thus far been completely overlooked: Whose job is it to bring a backlog item’s status into consistency with all remaining task hours? Do team members using Scrum care if the parent backlog item’s status transitions to done just as they set the last task’s hours to zero? Will they always know they are working with the last task that has remaining hours? Perhaps they will and perhaps it is the responsibility of each team member to bring each backlog item to official completion.

On the other hand, what if there is another project stakeholder involved? For example, the product owner or some other person may desire to check the candidate backlog item for satisfactory completion. Maybe someone ...