How would you handle a mandated Definition of Done with legacy debt?
Tests whether you treat the Definition of Done as a negotiable standard or a rigid rule, and if you know how to close the gap via transparency, incremental remediation, and organizational negotiation without shipping unfinished work.
Tests whether you understand the Definition of Done as a living organizational commitment rather than a checkbox, and whether you can navigate the tension between mandated quality standards and legacy reality. A strong answer outlines immediate transparency with leadership, a risk-based gap analysis, a Sprint-by-Sprint remediation backlog that raises the DoD incrementally, and strict separation of done versus accepted technical-debt risk. Red flag: agreeing to lower the bar secretly or claiming the team should simply work faster to catch up.
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