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

[Joel Aufrecht]

FYI, I've posted a summary and update of the Core vs Strategic definition
discussion in the context of Annual Planning on
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Swv9oz01xy9dz5fg.  And I would
encourage further questions on that Talk Page, as we re-integrate this
conversation from several mailing lists and other documents.



*--Joel Aufrecht*
Team Practices Group
Wikimedia Foundation

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Kevin Smith <ksmith at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> 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
>> --
>> Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
>> http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
>>
>>
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