The AI Definition of Done: Human in the Loop Is Not a Quality Standard

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TL;DR: The AI Definition of Done

Your team has a Definition of Done for a product increment. It has none for the 20-plus AI-supported outputs that leave the team each week: status reports, stakeholder emails, release notes, and updates for the C-level. Each one carries your team’s name. "I know quality when I see it" is the standard most teams actually run by, and you cannot audit it, teach it to a new colleague, or defend it when a claim turns out to be wrong. The AI Definition of Done fixes that with one page per task class, agreed by the team, before the output ships.

Thesis : The AI Definition of Done is a one-page, team-agreed standard that an AI-assisted output must meet before it leaves the team. You write one per task class, never per task: one for external status communication, one for data analysis summaries, one for backlog item drafts. It borrows the discipline of the Scrum Definition of Done and applies it to work that has been touched, especially outputs that leave the team. This is Stage 4 of the AI Delegation Lifecycle. The sections below cover the four questions it answers and how to write yours in 75 minutes.

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