Team Practices Group/FY2016Q3 Work Tracking

Purpose and Goals

 * 1) Document TPG's work for FY2016Q3
 * 2) During the quarter, for internal team planning and tracking
 * 3) After the quarter, for quarterly planning, annual planning, strategic planning, and individual performance records.
 * 4) Pilot SPDPP and evidence-based-planning techniques of work tracking with Mediawiki and Phabricator.

Proposal

 * 1) All TPG work is traceable to Phabricator tasks
 * 2) The level of detail of Phabricator tasks is commensurate with the value of tracking of the work, so that we do not have excessive tracking overhead.
 * 3) Work that requires followup, reminding, status reporting to other stakeholders, or passing between different people should generally be tracked as distinct Phabricator tasks. E.g., write a report; organize and facilitate a conference.
 * 4) Work that is continuous or process-oriented should generally not be tracked in Phabricator.  E.g., write up the notes from a recurring meeting.
 * 5) "TPG Quarterly Goal" work should be fully managed via Phabricator tasks, e.g., from high-level milestones down to per-person tasks.
 * 6) Continuous work and process work should generally not be tracked in any more detail than
 * 7) Work that amounts to less than 10% of any one TPGer's effort in the quarter (i.e., less than 50 hours total) is not specifically documented in any way.
 * 8) Work for embedded teams is tracked in Phabricator tasks associated with the embedded team, not TPG; or is not specifically documented if it's not worth tracking.