Hey all,
Earlier this week at our stand-up I mentioned my concern that although
we were now in the second quarter, our work did not entirely reflect
that; it was hard to point at cards and say "yes, this impacts our
quarterly goals".
At our sprint planning meeting I had the idea of adding a new column
to our sprint board - one for epics. Quarterly goals are epics (or
should be), and so exist in a form that Phabricator can track. By
including them in our sprint board we force ourselves, each planning
meeting or checkin, to pass over those epics and explain whether we've
been working on them or not and why, which results in informed task
prioritisation.
As an example, if we have an epic called "reduce the zero results
rate", and in our sprint planning meeting none of the cards we're
signing off on relate to it, we can prioritise cards that do when
we're pulling stuff out of the backlog.
People seemed to think this was a pretty good idea, but Dan wasn't in
the meeting, so I thought I'd push this to a venue he is in and do so
in a way that is transparent - in case anyone else has suggestions or
concerns or thinks it's something they'd like, too.
Thanks,
--
Oliver Keyes
Count Logula
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