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Acceptance Criteria and Example Mapping: Clarifying Rules with Examples

Acceptance criteria are a story's conditions of acceptance, and they work best when every rule has concrete examples under it. Using Bookstore's institutional discount and partial shipment cards, we cover rule-based and scenario-based criteria, how they differ from the Definition of Done and Definition of Ready, a four-colour Example Mapping session, and deciding at the end whether a story is ready, should be split or needs investigation.