The Definition of Ready ensures that the product backlog items are well-prepared, understood, and have enough information for the development team to start working on them. The criteria in the DoR may vary from team to team.
To consider the Story ready for a developer we should have this criterion already defined:
- Title: a clear user story title defined
- Description/Problem statement: a clear and concise statement that describes a specific problem to be solved or a gap to be filled.
- Acceptance Criteria: specific conditions or requirements that a product or feature must meet to be considered acceptable or "done" from the perspective of the stakeholders or users.
- Dependencies: mapped all dependencies from other teams/applications
- Estimates: use the specific measure to estimate the story on the macro vision
- Wireframes: mockups provided by the UI/UX designer
- Testability: comprehensive test plan created to guide the developers in executing the required tests