Definition of ready

Before ticket is ready to be taken up for development, the following details should exist:

1. Acceptance criteria
2. Non-functional requirements
3. Estimate in story points
4. Technical design:
   4.1 For APIs, the contract has been defined. This includes endpoints, payloads, and authentication.
   4.2 For tickets requiring communication with an external system, the interface should be defined. A sequence diagram should be provided.
   4.3 Database schemas, if applicable.
   4.4 Behaviour in various expected error scenarios.
   4.5 Recovery behaviour in case of interrupted execution.