It does, thanks both. -- Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity. On Aug 7, 2015 15:09, "Dan Garry" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I echo James's suggestion. The engineering teams in Discovery are not > currently using a Kanban-based process and our work is not estimated. If I > were asked to perform this kind of bucketing of our work, I would use > James's method, which I would expect approximates actual workload over any > significant time period. > > Hope that helps. > > Dan > > On 7 August 2015 at 14:50, James Forrester <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 7 August 2015 at 13:50, Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thanks Joel (and Terry) for that explanation. >>> >>> My next question is about measuring: >>> >>> <quote name="Joel Aufrecht" date="2015-08-07" time="11:00:33 -0700"> >>> > So I'm leaning toward a default recommendation of: >>> > 1) Try to track the three buckets (core, maintenance, new functions), >>> and >>> > try to confirm that teams can actually differentiate between them >>> cleanly >>> > enough >>> > 2) don't track bug vs feature >>> > 3) don't track planned vs unplanned, but do be careful not to >>> automatically >>> > conflate unplanned with maintenance. >>> >>> How should a team that doesn't use story points quantify and give a >>> ratio to the three buckets? >>> >>> Story points being, I assume, how teams in eg Discovery, Editing, and >>> Readership will be measuring the size of their buckets. >>> >> >> My general advice is not to worry. In my experience, the number of >> Phabricator tasks in aggregate approximates to the work required to >> complete them. There are always tasks which are trivial and those which are >> major, but it normally doesn't skew much, so don't worry about it as long >> as you're not expecting perfect forecasting (and if you are, this is not >> the biggest of your issues). >> >> Yours, >> -- >> James D. Forrester >> Lead Product Manager, Editing >> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. >> >> [email protected] | @jdforrester >> >> _______________________________________________ >> teampractices mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices >> >> > > > -- > Dan Garry > Lead Product Manager, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > >
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