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Ten Powerful Questions for Discovering Acceptance Criteria

July 15, 2015 by Kent McDonald

A friend of mine is an agile coach for a large software product company. When she coaches teams, product owners, and managers she stresses that teams need to feel ownership for their work. She likes to teach product owners and other leaders to lead through the use of questions, and has compiled a list of …

Acceptance Criteria

July 15, 2015 by Kent McDonald

What Are Acceptance Criteria Acceptance criteria are the conditions that a solution must satisfy to be accepted by a user, a customer, or, in the case of system-level functionality, the consuming system. They are also a set of statements, each with a clear pass/fail result, that specify both functional and nonfunctional requirements and are applicable …