What is a "Definition of Done" (DoD)?
Options
- A shared checklist an item must meet to be complete (Correct option)
- The date on which the sprint ends for the team
- The list of all the known bugs in the backlog
- The vision statement of the product for the year
Answer
A shared checklist of conditions every item must meet to be considered complete (e.g. code reviewed, tests passing, documented, deployed to staging)
Why
Without a shared definition, "done" means different things to different people. The DoD makes quality explicit: code merged after review, unit and integration tests green, no critical security findings, documentation updated, deployed to a test environment, accepted by the Product Owner.
Acceptance criteria are per story; the DoD applies to all stories.
Remember
DoD = team-wide quality checklist for every item.