Definition of Ready Should NOT be a Contract

Although there should be no question that the Definition of Ready is a guide to a Scrum team to check if a work item is ready for them to start in the next Sprint, I found in many teams that it has been used as the contract to decide when the work can be handed over to the Scrum team.

The team doesn’t understand that the backlog is just a list of ideas that may or may not be implemented. They treat the backlog as a different format of a committed requirements definition and expect all the details to be defined and documented so they just build it...

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