Skip to content
UX Atlas
TermCraft conventionFoundational

Definition of Done

The team's agreed checklist for finishing anything.

Definition

A team's shared standard for when work is finished, applied to every item rather than defined per item.

Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.

In plain language

The team's agreed checklist for finishing anything.

Example

Tested, accessible, documented, states handled, analytics instrumented.

Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.

Deeper reading

The full entry behind this definition.

Nearby in the Atlas

Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.