What's the best practice to implement Definition of Done on JIRA?

Question

We are planing to implement DOD with following checkbox items:

Definition of  Done:

- Requirements sign Off for sprint goals

- Coding done for the story

- Code Review

- Test Environment Deployment

- QA sign off

In addition to that we also wanted to have a work flow restriction in which a story can only be closed when all of the above checkbox items are checked.

We are planning to use a Custom Field i.e. checkbox to do that. I want to know if this process, along with the work flow restriction, is possible to implement in JIRA. And if possible how can we do that?

devNitish · Answer

Hi Sebastian,

Thanks for the recommendation about the plugin but we are planning to leverage the inbuilt  checkbox functionality to build this feature. Could you please help us to achieve that?

Sebastian Brudziński · Answer

As others have mentioned, your best call is probably one of the addons available on the Atlassian Marketplace. A few of the checklist addons there offer an easy way to create checklists directly in the Jira issues (similar to checklists in Trello, if you are familiar). They are also capable of injecting the checklist to each newly created issue or even enforce that the issue cannot be moved to done unless all checklist items are checked off.

There's an extensive guide on how to achieve this with Multiple Checklists for Jira on the Atlassian Community that we have developed:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/How-to-track-the-Definition-of-Done-with-Multiple-Checklists-for/ba-p/1041497

Jack Hunter _HeroCoders_ · Answer

Hi,

Scriptrunner is powerful but overcomplicated for some tasks.

For this particular use case, it might be simpler to use a dedicated app, e.g. our Issue Checklist Free or its paid version Issue Checklist Pro.

Both apps allow to quickly define the list of required checkboxes and set workflow restriction to require all items checked before the transition.

Also, the checklist template can be set as "default" and applied automatically for new issues.

It also offers other useful features like user mention, due dates, search facility, statuses, and more.

Cheers