[teampractices] Please help define the term "core work"

[Kevin Smith]

That link about measuring types of work is the earlier work I mentioned
which is related, but distinct. At that time, Terry was asking about
"maintenance" vs. "new work", whereas execs are now interested in
core/strategic. That might seem like a trivial difference, or just a new
label for the same concept. However, I don't think that is the case. I can
imagine new work that might be core (optimizing a cache to require less
hardware?), and maintenance work that might not be core (annual updating of
summer of code docs?). Also, the new framework has 3 categories (core,
strategic, and other), rather than just two, so there definitely can't be a
direct mapping.

We hope we can leverage those earlier discussions and experiments, but they
don't exactly meet the current requirements.

Thanks for asking!



Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation


On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 6:48 AM, Andre Klapper <aklapper at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 12:23 -0800, Kevin Smith wrote:
> > Please visit this wiki page[2] to help define the term "core work".
> > [2]
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Tracking_core_and_strategic_work
>
> Does not
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Measuring_Types_of_Work
> describe work types already, like "work dedicated to maintenance of
> existing functionality vs. creation of new functionality"?
>
> andre
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