• Criteria agreed across the team and shared with others that should be met before any work items is considered complete by any team member.
• Collaboratively created, maintained and enforced criteria by the team.
• A place where non-functional and functional work that should be performed for each and every work item can be managed.

• Aligns understanding and shared expectations across stakeholder groups on, for example, quality, assurance and documentation activities being performed throughout delivery.
• Drives quality into products being built incrementally.

Tips for Remote Working

• It is reasonably easy to find an agreement on both definition of ready and done remotely.
• One person can be a facilitator writing it based on everyone's input or everyone can co-edit.
• Use virtual white-boarding tool and use techniques such as "roman voting" or adding a sticky w/name to gain consensus.