The Sixth Scrum Ceremony
When you team is ready to mark a story as done what do you do? Someone just closes the story? Have a team discussion? Other...? The Scrum Guide discusses the Definition of Done , but it doesn't discuss how to make sure that a completed story has met the definition of done. An additional question worth discussing is when a story is done, how does your team ensure they have completely met the acceptance criteria? The criteria that was agreed upon with the stakeholder to know when the story is complete. My team has found value in creating an additional Scrum ceremony to solve this problem. The scrum guide discusses the standard five Scrum ceremonies, which are required elements of Scrum. Hopefully you are not just going through the motions of those ceremonies but actually doing them well and deriving value from them. That is for a post some other day. The ceremony I am talking about is Story Closing . We have found great value in closing each story as a team to make s