<quote name="Dan Garry" date="2015-08-05" time="13:25:25 -0700"> > 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?
From the notes of our Quarterly Review in July: ---quote--- ==All infrastructure teams, in future quarterly reviews== --> Lila: for all teams: assess how much of your time goes to: * supporting others * new projects * prototyping / research want to see a pie chart at end of q ---quote--- I read that as a mandate that we have to follow through on :) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Infrastructure,_July_2015 Search for "slide 35" on that page. I wasn't there, but the way it's been communicated to me and others since then is "maintenance vs new work". The Ops team is having a similar conversation right now as well. See eg: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Operations/Operations_Meeting_Notes/TechOps-2015-08-03#Updates Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | _______________________________________________ teampractices mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices
