[teampractices] [discovery] FYI: Discovery time spent on maintenance

[Kevin Smith]

I don't have any great suggestions on that, no.

At my last job, I was a contractor so recorded what I worked on down to
quarter-hour precision. It allowed answering questions like that, but most
people would feel the burden would outweigh the cost.



Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation


On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Quim Gil <qgil at wikimedia.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Kevin Smith <ksmith at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>> There is an initiative within the WMF to figure out how much time/effort
>> teams spend on "new functionality" vs. "maintenance".
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> Any ideas to track the "maintenance" time that goes to regular workflows
> that don't even have a task, because they are not meant to be completed?
>
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> Quim Gil
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