From the monthly archives: July 2008

Sharing Values, a team building exercise

On July 15, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Facilitation Exercises

A few months ago, I was facilitating sprint retrospective for a multi-cultural team that had members of different national origins (UK, South Africa, Angola and United States). We started gathering information regarding their first sprint. I realized that this team was struggling to simply get along! We took a step back and [...]

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What is Definition of Done (DoD)?

On July 8, 2008 · 9 Comments · In Tools & Artifacts

DoD is a collection of valuable deliverables required to produce software.

Deliverable that add verifiable/demonstrable addition of value to the product are part of the definition of done. Such as writing code, coding comments, unit testing, integration testing, release notes, design documents etc. Definition of done helps [...]

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