Team Practices Group/Task Tracking

The Team Practices Group (TPG) is tracking their work in two Phabricator projects:


 * 1) Work committed to in the current week: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1105/
 * 2) General team backlog: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/56/

Process workflow:

Backlog Workboard

 * New tasks go in to the Backlog. Work can be added at any time, and is prioritized by members of the Team Practices Group.
 * New tasks go into the To Triage column
 * TPG members coordinate weekly to prioritize tasks.
 * Prioritized tasks move to the backlog column.
 * Tasks in this column are candidates to be moved to the Team Practices This Week Workboard
 * The Team Radar column includes tasks that TPG is watching, but not necessarily working on.

Team Practices This Week Workboard

 * Tasks prioritized to be worked on in the current week from the Backlog Workboard are moved to the backlog column of the Team Practices This Week Workboard.
 * TPG members assign tasks to themselves.
 * Tasks being worked on are moved to the "In Progress" column. The team tries to limit Work In Progress to six tasks in progress at once (see the denominator if the fraction to the right in the column title- the nominator is the number of tasks actually in progress ).
 * If a task is blocked by a dependency or is waiting on someone's input, it is moved in to the Blocked or Waiting column.
 * If a task needs review by another TPG member, it is moved in to Needs Review column and the person who should review it is assigned to the task. The team limits reviews to four tasks at once (see the denominator if the fraction to the right in the column title- the nominator is the number of tasks actually in review).
 * If new knowledge or new processes are generated, or currently undocumented, the responsible TPG party will create documentation on mw.org
 * Completed tasks are moved to the Done column.

Backlog review
The team meets weekly to review/prioritize the backlog of tasks and address any blockers.