Hi everyone, I am preparing for the PMI-ACP certificate, but in the pre-exam simulators I found some discrepancies. Please could you clarify for me who is responsible for the definition of Done? The development organization or the Product Owner? What should be the correct answer?
If you mean coming up with the guidelines within the Definition of Done, that is normally done as a team effort with team members meeting with key stakeholders to get a holistic understanding of what "done" means to all of them.
If your organisation has a standard threshold for DoD then that should be the starting point. The PO and the developers should then agree any refinements. Saving Changes...
OK thanks for the answer, I supposed that however, I found Scrum web pages that give the responsibility of creation of the Definition of Done to Product Owner, which I think it should be just for the acceptance of criterion, but not for the DoD, right? Saving Changes...
Let's distinguish between what the Scrum.org folks say is "the rule" and what happens in practice. A P.O. would likely contribute to the DoD but it's unlikely they would have awareness of ALL the stakeholders who might have "done" needs, hence the team would usually put this together with support from their agile lead & P.O.
I'm also NOT a fan of boilerplate DoD's. It is fine to have examples to reference, but having a full starting point might become a convenient default and key conditions for a specific context might be missed.
