Great ScrumMasters, while being practical and pragmatic, will not let the team stay too long in a less-than-optimal definition of done. Instead, they will set a target of helping the team extend their definition of done as much as possible, as quickly as possible. This almost always has the biggest impact on productivity, quality, morale and, in effect, agility. It might involve lobbying for greater training or for the transfer of an individual into a Scrum team or perhaps an investment in automation—whatever is needed to help the team get “done” in this and every subsequent sprint. Until we
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