Topic: requirements

• Acceptance criteria per work item that can be turned into tests

  Write each work item's acceptance criteria as concrete examples with a starting state, an action and an observable outcome, using Gherkin's Given/When/Then structure or an equivalent, with the boundary cases named; criteria that cannot be executed or checked by someone other than the author are not criteria.

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• A definition of ready: when a backlog item may enter an iteration

  A definition of ready lists what must be known about a backlog item before a team commits to it: purpose, acceptance criteria, dependencies cleared, size agreed. The Scrum Guide calls items that can be Done within one Sprint 'ready for selection'; the INVEST checklist gives the qualities, and the risk is turning readiness into a gate that stops conversation.

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