[teampractices] How to document future plans beyond the top goal for each team

Thu Apr 9 15:50:22 UTC 2015

That seems functional and attractive. I'm curious how you ended up choosing
a Task (rather than a Project), and why that task only lists the sub-goals
(rather than blocking on them).

That might relate to this documented guideline:

"Creating *new* tracking tasks (tasks that "automatically" get resolved
when all its dependency tasks are resolved) in Phabricator is discouraged.
It is recommended to create a project
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Creating_and_renaming_projects>
instead." [1]

I would be interested in hearing the history behind that policy so I can
understand the rationale.

[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Project_management/Tracking_tasks

Kevin Smith
Agile Coach
Wikimedia Foundation

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On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Quim Gil <qgil at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> In the past, the "Wikimedia Engineering/2014-15 Goals" wiki page and
> the quarterly reviews were the main venues to communicate and discuss
> future plans.
>
> Now quarterly reviews are strictly about the past quarter, and only the
> top goal of each team is documented in the wiki page. This is probably good
> enough to have a clear top level view of the critical WMF activities.
> Still, this leaves out a lot of planning and work.
>
> There is also the #Roadmap project in Phabricator, although this is
> restricted mostly to user/developer facing software changes, which again
> doesn't reflect all the work teams do.
>
> What ECT is doing now is:
>
> * document the single top goal in
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals as
> instructed
> * document our other quarterly goals in a Phabricator task blocked by the
> related epics, i.e. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93770
> * If any epic deserves to be on #Roadmap or #Notice, then we associate
> these tags accordingly.
>
> Is this a good approach?
>
> --
> Quim Gil
> Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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