General Agreement

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Definition of General Agreement

The Part of a Story’s definition of “Done” that contains information about which SMEs will be involved, who will be the Story Coordinator, what is ‘out of scope’ for the Story, and so on.

See:

Done A piece of work is “Done” when it satisfies the (pre-existing) agreement between Stakeholders and Developers about what it takes for the work to be complete; “Done” for a Story...

Examples

General Agreements: Amir (the analyst) is the coordinator.

General Agreements: 1. Joe is the SME on this Story 2. Sue will be the Coordinator for this Story 3. Note: don’t worry if the flights are full or not, just return all of them that match dates and places.

External Sources

Agreement

Cite This Term

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