Talk:Wikimedia Discovery/Portal Team/Roles and responsibilities

=Re: Product Owner= The bullet about being the escaation point for competing prioritization seems redundant with the simpler "Determine priority of tasks". If the longer one remains, I would make it a clarifying sub-bullet of the simpler one.

"Determine priority of tasks" might benefit from clarification that these are "phabricator tasks". I come from the Extreme Programming world, where the PO would define the priority of User Stories, but the devs would figure out the priority of low-level Technical Tasks. Obviously phab tasks span both of those (and more).

"Make final decisions about trade-offs when desired functionality, or scope, exceeds the capacity of the team". I would argue that desired functionality and scope *always* exceed the capacity of the team. How is this different from "Determine priority of tasks"?

I would add: Keep the backlog groomed and prioritized. Should there be something about communicating out to the rest of the foundation and communities? I might add something about the product vision, possible lumping it in with the existing roadmap bullet. --KSmith (WMF) (talk) 23:48, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

=Re: UX Lead= I would aim higher than the best-designed product within the WMF. :P

The term "design patterns" happens to have a specific meaning in programming circles. Not sure if it's worth rewording or not.

This bullet "Devs can bring specific questions about tasks to the PO" seems out of place here. --KSmith (WMF) (talk) 23:48, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

=Non-role specific, but important= I'm not sure where to put it, but...

When designing a mock-up, the designer should consult with the tech lead about ease of implementation. When implementing a feature, a dev should consult with the PO to fully understand the MVP. And a dev should consult with the designer in cases where a slightly different design would be far easier to implement, or more robust, or more portable, etc. Every user story should be a conversation, not just throwing some text over the wall where the next worker toils on it in isolation.--KSmith (WMF) (talk) 23:48, 1 March 2016 (UTC)