[teampractices] "Maintenance" vs "New work"

Wed Aug 5 23:35:14 UTC 2015

On 5 August 2015 at 14:33, Greg Grossmeier <greg at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> 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

Fair enough.

My question still stands, but I think the focus of this thread should be on
how to fulfil the request which was made of you, so I'll take my questions
off-list.

Thanks!

Dan

-- 
Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
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