Treat the Definition of Done as a quality contract
Use Definition of Done to make completion standards explicit before work starts.
The move: make finishing work part of the work. The Definition of Done is where agile management gets honest about quality. It converts vague expectations into a shared checklist that applies to every increment. That matters because most teams do not miss quality deliberately. They miss it through ambiguity: one person thinks unit tests are enough, another expects release notes, a third assumes accessibility will happen later. A useful DoD has teeth. It is visible during planning, referenced during development, and used before a story is accepted. It should be stable enough to create trust but revisited when the product…
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