[Engineering] Building and delivering software at WMF

Mon May 1 16:49:33 UTC 2017

Great read! Thanks for taking the time to write that!

A few comments:

> QA Tribe

I'd be most interested to continue having discussions around software
quality. If there is a place for those discussions, count me in!

> Although the primary outcome of the estimation process may seem to be the estimate, as with planning, the value is truly found in doing the activity itself.

Great to make this explicit. I am a firm believer that the value of a
lot of the tasks we do is not what it seems at first. The estimate is
not the actual goal, but the discussion around the task.

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 7:13 AM, Jean-Rene Branaa <jbranaa at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> For those of you that I’ve not yet met, quick intro.  I’m Jean-Rene Branaa
> (aka JR) and work on the RelEng team as a Senior Software Quality Analyst.
> Since starting with the Foundation in early January, I’ve spent a fair
> amount of time meeting with folks and getting to know more about how we
> build and deliver our software.
>
> The initial outcome of that activity is the document linked below.  The
> intent is to provide some insight into possible improvement areas based on
> the afore mentioned meetings/discussions.  The content is segmented into
> three sections - people (culture), process, tools.
>
> This document is intended to be a living document that spurs on further
> discussions, so feel free to provide your comments/thoughts.  If you have
> experience/interest in any of the areas listed, I’d be happy to discuss them
> further with you (and rope you in for any help you are able to provide :-)).
> On the other hand, if there are any areas that are not included that you
> feel warrant some attention/discussion, please let me know.
>
> On a side note, I was pleasantly surprised throughout all my discussions by
> the shared desire to continuously improve things.  This is an excellent
> foundation for us to build on.
>
> https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/document/d/1AAFQNZt36TX5XVFajdbb1g-f-FSIvokhcqbBaSTXmK4/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Talk to you soon,
>
> JR
>
>
>
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