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 Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Derick’s (brand new, just thought of it, but is now elevated to ‘mantra’ status for me) golden rule of Acceptance Criteria:

If it’s not usable by every team member, it’s not Acceptance Criteria.

And I do mean every team member - Customers, Testers, Tech Writers, BAs, Developers, UX Designers, and anyone else on your team.

You can specifying the technical or UI details in the story’s detail, but it’s not acceptance criteria – it’s Technical Criteria, or UI Criteria, or Test Automation Criteria, or … etc. Generally speaking, don't include these alternate criteria in the story detail – let the specific team members determine their specific criteria and record it how they need to (through unit test for devs, interaction design mockups for ui peeps, etc).

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:37:45 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0]. Trackback 
Tags: Acceptance Criteria | Agile | Behavior Driven Development | Interaction Design | Management | User Stories

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