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Lean from the Trenches
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Lean from the Trenches

by Henrik Kniberg
December 2011
Beginner
176 pages
3h 54m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Chapter 7Defining Ready and Done

It’s important to be very clear about what the columns on the board mean. Especially in big projects, the more people involved, the greater the risk of confusion, and the greater the cost of confusion.

The blue text at the top of most columns on our project board is the definition of done for that column (which also means definition of ready for the subsequent column). The two most important definitions for us are definition of ready for development and definition of ready for system test, since that’s where we used to have the most problems.

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