Identifying Potentially Shippable Guidelines

Although it is up to the organization or team to establish an appropriate definition of done for its context, there are certain guidelines that are applicable across most Scrum projects in most organizations.

Potentially shippable means tested

Although the exact definition of what constitutes potentially shippable belongs either to the organization or the team, I can’t think of a situation in which it would be OK for the team to leave testing out of this definition. By the end of the sprint, we must have the expectation that new features are bug free and that no bugs were introduced into old features. For some products, we may not be 100% sure of this, but we would always like to be as close to sure ...

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