Hi everyone,
So that we can start thinking about our short and long term futures, I've had a Search-Department-Freezer https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1218/ project created to serve as our longer term backlog.
This backlog will contain any work which is not planned to be done in the next few weeks, and will have tasks broken down by category. This will help us figure out what's coming next, and help us start putting tasks in there for our long term objectives. Mainly, I plan to use it to plan out our future work, and give the team and stakeholders insight into what's coming next.
My task today is to create a preliminary structure, and then we can iterate from there. The structure of the backlog will evolve over time as the team structure and work changes. The board may even be superseded by another board. For now, I'll leave the backlog column of the Search-Team-Project workboard as it is, but I would like to get together with the team leads to triage that at some point.
The freezer is unsuitable for the storage of frozen goods.
Dan
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
So that we can start thinking about our short and long term futures, I've had a Search-Department-Freezer https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1218/ project created to serve as our longer term backlog.
This backlog will contain any work which is not planned to be done in the next few weeks, and will have tasks broken down by category. This will help us figure out what's coming next, and help us start putting tasks in there for our long term objectives. Mainly, I plan to use it to plan out our future work, and give the team and stakeholders insight into what's coming next.
My task today is to create a preliminary structure, and then we can iterate from there. The structure of the backlog will evolve over time as the team structure and work changes. The board may even be superseded by another board. For now, I'll leave the backlog column of the Search-Team-Project workboard as it is, but I would like to get together with the team leads to triage that at some point.
The freezer is unsuitable for the storage of frozen goods.
Ultimately will we remove stuff from the wikimedia-search team so that we continue to use the board for short term planning? I get that a single backlog column in impossible for planning.
+1 to Nik's request for clarification that almost everything currently in the Search Team would move to the freezer?
I was imagining that our "current" work would happen in a "Sprint" project, even if we're in Kanban mode where that sprint project lasts forever. That's because Sprint projects support estimates, which I think we should move toward doing. Since Team projects can't be Sprint projects, we might end up with 3 levels of project (Freezer - Team - Sprint). Maybe that's OK, partly because the Freezer is at the dept level?
Kevin Smith Agile Coach Wikimedia Foundation
*Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Help us make it a reality.*
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Nikolas Everett neverett@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
So that we can start thinking about our short and long term futures, I've had a Search-Department-Freezer https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1218/ project created to serve as our longer term backlog.
This backlog will contain any work which is not planned to be done in the next few weeks, and will have tasks broken down by category. This will help us figure out what's coming next, and help us start putting tasks in there for our long term objectives. Mainly, I plan to use it to plan out our future work, and give the team and stakeholders insight into what's coming next.
My task today is to create a preliminary structure, and then we can iterate from there. The structure of the backlog will evolve over time as the team structure and work changes. The board may even be superseded by another board. For now, I'll leave the backlog column of the Search-Team-Project workboard as it is, but I would like to get together with the team leads to triage that at some point.
The freezer is unsuitable for the storage of frozen goods.
Ultimately will we remove stuff from the wikimedia-search team so that we continue to use the board for short term planning? I get that a single backlog column in impossible for planning.
Wikimedia-search mailing list Wikimedia-search@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-search
I was imagining that the Search-Team board would be our place to track ongoing work, so I asked for this freezer to be created to serve as our backlog for anything that's not in flight.
We can hash this out in more detail in our process talk on Thursday.
Unless there any objections, I'll populate the freezer with some epics in the mean time; it won't be much effort to retag the small number of tasks I plan to put in there, and I'm happy to volunteer to do that.
Dan
On 28 April 2015 at 11:58, Kevin Smith ksmith@wikimedia.org wrote:
+1 to Nik's request for clarification that almost everything currently in the Search Team would move to the freezer?
I was imagining that our "current" work would happen in a "Sprint" project, even if we're in Kanban mode where that sprint project lasts forever. That's because Sprint projects support estimates, which I think we should move toward doing. Since Team projects can't be Sprint projects, we might end up with 3 levels of project (Freezer - Team - Sprint). Maybe that's OK, partly because the Freezer is at the dept level?
Kevin Smith Agile Coach Wikimedia Foundation
*Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Help us make it a reality.*
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Nikolas Everett neverett@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
So that we can start thinking about our short and long term futures, I've had a Search-Department-Freezer https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1218/ project created to serve as our longer term backlog.
This backlog will contain any work which is not planned to be done in the next few weeks, and will have tasks broken down by category. This will help us figure out what's coming next, and help us start putting tasks in there for our long term objectives. Mainly, I plan to use it to plan out our future work, and give the team and stakeholders insight into what's coming next.
My task today is to create a preliminary structure, and then we can iterate from there. The structure of the backlog will evolve over time as the team structure and work changes. The board may even be superseded by another board. For now, I'll leave the backlog column of the Search-Team-Project workboard as it is, but I would like to get together with the team leads to triage that at some point.
The freezer is unsuitable for the storage of frozen goods.
Ultimately will we remove stuff from the wikimedia-search team so that we continue to use the board for short term planning? I get that a single backlog column in impossible for planning.
Wikimedia-search mailing list Wikimedia-search@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-search
Wikimedia-search mailing list Wikimedia-search@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-search
On 28 April 2015 at 11:28, Nikolas Everett neverett@wikimedia.org wrote:
Ultimately will we remove stuff from the wikimedia-search team so that we continue to use the board for short term planning? I get that a single backlog column in impossible for planning.
Do you mean this board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/search-team/
The way I'm envisioning it is that board is for short term planning, and the freezer board is for longer term planning. The exact demarkation between short and long term is a little fuzzy at the moment, but I think that's okay for now.
Does that make sense to you?
Dan
wikimedia-search@lists.wikimedia.org