From the course: A Beginner's Guide to Writing User Stories
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Writing the acceptance criteria
From the course: A Beginner's Guide to Writing User Stories
Writing the acceptance criteria
- Just the other day, my wife and I were meeting some friends for breakfast at one of our favorite restaurants. We were excited to share some good food and conversation with them. We told them the name of the restaurant and showed up the morning of ready to eat and chat, and they never showed up. Are we really that difficult to be around? We thought to ourselves. Well, it turns out that they went to a restaurant with the same name at a different location than we did, one much further away than where we'd intended to meet. In this lesson, I'm going to teach you how to create acceptance criteria that are specific so you and your customers meet in the same location, a place with a powerful and useful product or service. Think of the acceptance criteria as your definition of done. At the end of this project, what exactly will you have accomplished? What needs to be done so that you can say with certainty that your work is…