What Does it Mean to be “Ready”?
“Ready? Steady! Go!”. That phrase echoes from my youth. I used to twitch waiting for the starter to shout that phrase at the beginning of the 800m races I ran, representing my school. It was also the title of a ground-breaking pop music show which caused me to fall in love with Dusty Springfield, Sandy Shaw and every other female singer who appeared (I was a very impressionable teenager). It resonates today for me in Scrum.
When Development teams pull Product Backlog Items (PBIs), or user stories, from the Product Backlog into a Sprint they need to be ready to hit the ground running immediately after the Sprint Planning meeting. For that to happen the PBIs must be in a state that allows them to do that.
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