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[Joey Stanford <joey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Howdy,

>> A developer assigns the BP to themselves and retargets the BP out of
>> the backlog milestone and into the current monthly milestone.
>
> Sorry, in what state do they do this?  Does it stay in 'backlog' until
> accepted upstream?

BPs that are created each quarter by new Roadmap cards go into the backlog.
At the end of the quarter we clean out the backlog to make room for
the next quaters BPs.

> How does someone else tell if a blueprint is free

If a BP is in the backlog milestone then it by definition means that
it's not being worked on.  Ideally an engineer would go visit the
backlog and grab the next highest priority item off it. However what I
suspect will happen, and this is certainly very good as well, is that
you as the TL may choose to assign a BP to an engineer in advance.

Think of it like airplanes in a holding pattern over an airport. Once
the tower is ready to do something with an airplane they move it out
of the holding pattern and put it on approach.  We're doing same
things.  BPs in the backlog are BPs in a holding pattern until
resources free up to work on them.

> How do I tell what is in progress and what is blocked
> upstream?

The monthly milestone view.  You move a BP from the backlog milestone
to your current monthly milestone. It will tell you want's done, in
progress, and blocked for that month.

J