[teampractices] Guideline for tasks assigned

[Quim Gil]

Can we agree on this basic guideline, at least at a WMF Engineering &
Product level?

"You should have a task assigned to yourself only when you are prepared to
work on it."

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Project_management#Assigning_tasks


In times of goals, sprints, and health check surveys... keeping a sane list
of open assigned tasks should be an important matter. The contrary doesn't
help to anybody, even less to yourself. Starting point:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/assigned/

Interesting data and links below.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Quim Gil <qgil at wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 8:36 AM
Subject: Your oldest Phabricator tasks
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>

Somehow I got into the habit of checking this Phabricator report linking to
the oldest open task assigned to each user:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/report/?order=-oldest-all

Your username probably appears in this list. If not, it's probably time to
take a task and assign it to you. :)

There are 223 users with tasks assigned, from which 132 have a task
assigned that was created at least one year ago. At least in the upper
section of the list, most tasks welcome a fresh look, and your help is
welcome (starting by your own tasks). There is a convenient tooltip showing
the title of the tasks linked.

There is a complementary view of the same list, sorting users by number of
tasks assigned.

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/report/?order=-total

I'm currently 20th with 24 tasks assigned, which is already unrealistic.

You might want to re-check your assigned tasks for everybody's benefit and
your own. See also
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Project_management#Assigning_tasks

-- 
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil


-- 
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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