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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> teampractices mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices >> > > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > >
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