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DoD - Project level or Sprint level?

Last post 08:26 am August 3, 2014 by John Tyson
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John Tyson
11:57 am August 1, 2014

I was wondering if the Definition of Done (DoD) is defined for the entire Project or Sprint-by-Sprint. It seems like a lot of people define this for each Sprint.

I'd be interested in hearing people's opinion of this.

Thanks.

Olivier Ledru
10:10 am August 2, 2014

My view is DOD is for a product.
As explain in the scrum guide, DOD can become more stringent sprint after sprint, because of the knowledge acquired.

In my context, our DODs evolve, but very lightly from sprint to sprint.

Ian Mitchell
04:33 pm August 2, 2014

Depending on your perspective you can argue that a DoD is per team, per product, or per sprint. See this thread:

https://www.scrum.org/Forums/aft/486

In my opinion it might best be thought of as per product release. Each team's DoD must comply with organizational standards for the product, so an increment of value can be collaboratively produced.

This is another way of saying that a DoD is per sprint, in so far as each sprint must yield a potentially releasable increment.

John Tyson
08:26 am August 3, 2014

Thank you for your responses.

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