[teampractices] Measuring core vs maintenance vs new work

[Greg Grossmeier]

It does, thanks both.

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On Aug 7, 2015 15:09, "Dan Garry" <dgarry at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> I echo James's suggestion. The engineering teams in Discovery are not
> currently using a Kanban-based process and our work is not estimated. If I
> were asked to perform this kind of bucketing of our work, I would use
> James's method, which I would expect approximates actual workload over any
> significant time period.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dan
>
> On 7 August 2015 at 14:50, James Forrester <jforrester at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 7 August 2015 at 13:50, Greg Grossmeier <greg at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Joel (and Terry) for that explanation.
>>>
>>> My next question is about measuring:
>>>
>>> <quote name="Joel Aufrecht" date="2015-08-07" time="11:00:33 -0700">
>>> > So I'm leaning toward a default recommendation of:
>>> > 1) Try to track the three buckets (core, maintenance, new functions),
>>> and
>>> > try to confirm that teams can actually differentiate between them
>>> cleanly
>>> > enough
>>> > 2) don't track bug vs feature
>>> > 3) don't track planned vs unplanned, but do be careful not to
>>> automatically
>>> > conflate unplanned with maintenance.
>>>
>>> How should a team that doesn't use story points quantify and give a
>>> ratio to the three buckets?
>>>
>>> Story points being, I assume, how teams in eg Discovery, Editing, and
>>> Readership will be measuring the size of their buckets.
>>>
>>
>> ​My general advice is not to worry. In my experience, the number of
>> Phabricator tasks in aggregate approximates to the work required to
>> complete them. There are always tasks which are trivial and those which are
>> major, but it normally doesn't skew much, so don't worry about it as long
>> as you're not expecting perfect forecasting (and if you are, this is not
>> the biggest of your issues).
>>
>> ​Yours,
>> --
>> James D. Forrester
>> Lead Product Manager, Editing
>> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
>>
>> jforrester at wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
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