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The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide: Challenges Every Scrum Team Faces and How to Overcome Them
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The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide: Challenges Every Scrum Team Faces and How to Overcome Them

by Stefan Wolpers
February 2024
Beginner to intermediate
416 pages
10h 1m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Definition of Done Anti-Patterns

Introduction

The Definition of Done (sometimes shortened to DoD) is one of the three commitments of the Scrum Guide. It describes an Increment’s required quality standard to be considered “done” and is a prerequisite for inspecting any Increment.

The Definition of Done serves a crucial function, as it provides the Scrum Team and its organization with a common understanding of the completeness of the Increment. The Definition of Done thus enables stakeholders to close the feedback loop the Scrum Team requires for its empirical process, as it allows inspection of a done Increment.

The idea of the Definition of Done is simple: “done” reflects releasable; it means that the Scrum Team can deliver the Increment ...

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