Going back to the original topic of this thread - extending Bugzilla for PM - the scrumbu.gs developer has helpfully given me some good feedback from their experience. I've invited him and other folks at Mozilla to join the conversation here if they're interested, but to recap:
1) Instead of Scrum, some teams at Mozilla use Kanban (less focus on velocity, roles, rituals; more focus on just tracking ongoing work and limiting work-in-progress). This is more comparable to the lightweight workflow that e.g. the Mobile App teams and Growth teams at WMF are currently using, though I'm not sure we've ever formally implemented some aspects of Kanban on these teams like WIP limits and lead time estimation - perhaps Steven or Tomasz can speak to that. My take is that Kanban is good for small teams and Scrum's benefits kick in on larger, more complex projects. Kanban is the kind of workflow that a tool like Trello is good for; Mozilla likes Kanbanery (proprietary) and wrote a Firefox extension to tie it into Bugzilla: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kanbugger/ 2) There's an intern project called Kanbanzilla that looks more like a full-on Kanban board integrated with Bugzilla. I've asked if there's a live setup somewhere, but here's the code if anyone wants to poke at it: https://github.com/mozilla/kanbanzilla Cheers, Erik On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for sharing, Greg! I've also reached out to the scrumbu.gs > developer. I'd like to coordinate a bit more with Andre/Quim, but it'd > definitely be great to see if a joint approach with other major > players to improving our open source agile team tooling. Like I said, > I think Mingle is a great tool for now (and don't want to discourage > its use now that we've just started to get good at it), but getting a > good open alternative to work well for everyone is going to take a > long time, so we should start thinking about this early. > > Erik > > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ teampractices mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices
