<div dir="ltr">+1 and to build on Bryan's comment:<div>It may help to have a cross team task with linked subtasks for individual teams. A specific subtask can be estimated in the context of the team who owns it. </div><div><br></div><div>I would also want to leave this point up to the teams who share the work. I don't think anyone is going to be able to police all the cross team tasks but we should have recommendations for team who have this problem. </div><div><br></div><div>Also I've added this to the wiki page about the upgrade here:</div><div><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Feb_2016_Upgrade" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style="display:inline!important">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Feb_2016_Upgrade</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Bryan Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bd808@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">bd808@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:54 PM, James Forrester<br>
<<a href="mailto:jforrester@wikimedia.org">jforrester@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> This is mostly an issue for tasks that sit in multiple teams' boxes. For VE<br>
> I've 'til-now set these to 0 if externally blocked (e.g.<br>
> <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119780" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119780</a> ), but that only works if the<br>
> other team(s) involved don't want to set points themselves.<br>
><br>
> When points were only available to the few teams using the Sprint extension<br>
> this was no-one, to a first approximation (off the top of my head, two tasks<br>
> have had clashes like this in the past year, and no-one cared enough to<br>
> enforce their way over others). Now all projects have it, it's much more<br>
> likely to be a thing.<br>
<br>
</span>The pedantic scrum nerd that I try to keep locked up in the back of my<br>
skull says that a task that is passed around from team to team is not<br>
of a granularity that estimable for sprint work. It may be an epic or<br>
theme that has been given some estimation for the purpose of backlog<br>
grooming but those points are not comparable to sprint task points.<br>
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Bryan<br>
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