Briefle words · Product & specs
Definition of done
A shared checklist of conditions that every piece of work must meet before the team counts it as finished.
Say it to an AI
Write our team's definition of done as a short checklist that applies to every story: acceptance criteria demoed to the PM, code review, green automated tests, staging deploy, accessibility check, docs updated. Make it binary: any unchecked item keeps the story out of Done.
How an expert would brief the stronger version of “Team definition of done”.
See it
Try it as a puzzle →The lead of an online-course platform team pins the rule for when a story counts as done.
Why: A lists five shared checks for every story; B's 'merged to main, card moved to Done' is a status, not a quality bar.
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Room 3 · User stories
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