[teampractices] "Maintenance" vs "New work"

[Dan Garry]

On 5 August 2015 at 12:10, Greg Grossmeier <greg at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> Are there any teams at WMF who already have these two buckets defined?
> What are your definitions?
>

Things like restarting the ElasticSearch cluster, and upgrading the
ElasticSearch cluster, are maintenance work for my team. I guess the
criteria I use is anything which keep search ticking, but doesn't related
directly to our goals is "maintenance work".

I'm not certain I understand the need to draw a distinction between
maintenance and new work. I prefer to think purely in terms of what work is
the most strategic in terms of achieving our mission; for the purposes of
that, whether work is "maintenance work" or "new work" is irrelevant, as
all that matters is if the work is the most strategic. Is there any
background on why you are being asked to make this distinction?

Dan

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Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
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