IT Project Management - life on the front line

The world has become very full of new dogmas.  The old dogmas have perhaps decayed, but new dogmas have arisen and, on the whole, I think that a dogma is harmful in proportion to it's novelty. New dogmas are much worse than old ones. -- Bertrand Russell

Ready for what? Ready to be picked up by the delivery team and added to a Timebox/Sprint backlog. NOT: Defined to the nth degree of detail so that no further discussion is required. Definition of Ready: Like the DoD, the DoR is defined by the team and should be updated whenever it seems appropriate e.g if there's a big change in the team or the work; or the team simply sees the need for a change. Being agreed and enforced by the team means that it should, hopefully, mean an end to the common moaning in retrospectives that 'the story was crap'. As the team gets used to only selecting 'ready' stories it focuses grooming/refinement sessions to ensure that the top priorities are in the best possible state. The business/product owner will also very quickly understand the need for good prioritisation and quality stories. This is driven home the first time a team refuses to take a priority story into an iteration. While there are a number of ways to start, ma...