A business analyst (BA) at Northern Trail Outfitters has been asked to prepare documentation including acceptance criteria and definition of done for a Heroku project. Which way should the BA…

Question

Options

• AInclude the personal perspective for acceptance criteria and the overall perspective for definition
• BCreate one consolidated set of documentation as the two terms are synonymous and used
• CInclude the overall perspective for acceptance criteria and the persona's perspective for definition

• A
  78% (39)
• B
  8% (4)
• C
  14% (7)

Explanation

Acceptance criteria and definition of done are related but distinct concepts. Acceptance criteria (Choice A's 'personal perspective') are specific, story-level conditions written from the perspective of the user or persona that must be met for a user story to be considered complete - they are persona-driven and vary per story. Definition of done ('overall perspective') is a team-wide, project-level checklist of quality standards that every story must meet before it can be marked done (e.g., code reviewed, tested, deployed). Choice B is incorrect because they are not synonymous - conflating them loses important specificity. Choice C reverses the perspectives incorrectly - acceptance criteria belong to the persona, definition of done belongs to the overall team standard.

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