How Healthy is Your Product? - Source Code Check

You are developing your product using agile and lean approaches. 

How can you check your approach and distill improvements? A health check of your product and your development approach is certainly a good solution.

This post is the first of a set of articles identifying health checks with different focus. We will identify strengths, potential weaknesses and hopefully find room for improvement.

The initial examination shall always be the source code. Your code base is a key asset of your company.

How Should You handle Definition of Done?

An agile team is sole responsible for the internal quality of the product they build and maintain.

And the developers shall be accountable to produce the expected quality and optimize long terms goals of the organization.

They provide the answer to the seminal question

Did we build it right?

Definition of Done DoD is a major building block to answer this question with a sounding yes.