Talk:Team Practices Group/Measuring Types of Work

Categories A and B in "Maintenance vs New Work"
I am unclear about the current distinction between "Keeping the lights on" and "Maintenance". I am also unclear what the value would be in defining these as separate classifications. Khorn (WMF) (talk) 20:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Maintenance vs New work - Uncategorized
A few comments of my own about this section
 * Prototyping/Research - I don't know that I have ever seen "prototyping" that wasn't new work. Research should probably be its own line: It can easily go either way, depending on what is being researched or analyzed.
 * Tech Debt - Definitely maintenance
 * responsive correction - What is this?
 * meta-work - I'm not sure what this is either.

Khorn (WMF) (talk) 20:22, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Interrupt vs planned
I think the main characteristic of "Interrupt" is that it was a thing we didn't know we were going to have to address as an "unbreak now". Frequently, we are well aware of fragile components in the system (and have sparsely-worded cards about beefing them up in our backlog), but the rapid escalation in the severity of the problem is a surprise. On the other hand, they can also be complete surprises. The value in tracking interrupts is to be able to pad out planning estimations to account for work we didn't think we had to do deliberately at that time, whether or not those things were on the radar for a farther-off future. Khorn (WMF) (talk) 20:28, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Tasks that indicate significant effort for several teams

 * Example?
 * Are there any big enough to matter?

Tracking tasks

 * Example?
 * Should be excluded from reporting

New Work - for projects in maintenance vs in development
Hello, this may already have been answered but I could not find it anywhere - for Category C type work, are we talking about new features being added to projects that have been completed and in maintenance mode or just things that are in progress? In Language Engineering, we have a clear distinction between projects that are in these 2 phases (e.g. ULS in maintenance, CX in development). Projects in maintenance have type AB work and C is mostly (at present) deferred in favour of all work for the in-development project. For the project in development too we have AB work as its in use as a beta tool. Considering all AB work can be identified with one tag, we would require some distinction for C in-maintenance and on going C for in-development projects. Thanks.--Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk) 18:05, 20 August 2015 (UTC)