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[Alexander Sack <asac@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

kiko and me discussed what to do with the cards now that we approach
end of quarter.

Outcome was a set of timelines for the coming end/start of the quarter.

If you have questions about any of these points, see at the bottom of
this mail, check with your PM, talk to dzin/me or just ask here :).


 Jan 29th: Q4 report, pre-plans ready for Connect
       * 2011Q4
           * All cards and blueprints updated
           * Acceptance Criteria tested and go/no go
           * Short blurb on each not pass
           * Suggestions for future work
       * 2012Q1
           * One-page plan for each roadmap card

 Feb  5th: Connect
       * TSC presentation of summary of reports
       * Dicussion of each relevant card by technical team

Feb 20th: Connect Plan Review
       * Agile Plan -- envisioned sequence/set of deliveries/steps to
deliver the plan (in form of blueprints) and 1-liner for each
blueprint

Feb 27th: Work Item Review
       * All blueprints with work items recorded

> Questions:
>
>    - Where do we record the deliverables above?
>        * Q4 report
>        * Q1 pre-plan

Plan and report should go on papyrs card itself or to dedicated
wiki/papyrs pages that get linked from the card. PMs to flash out the
details.

>
>    - How do we verify delivery of the above?

PMs/TLs are responsible to deliver their card reports/plans. The
TSC-operational team (loic et al) is tasked to bring a quarterly plan
and post-mortem report together. At best they would work with the PMs
and techleads on that.

>
> What is this agile plan?

asac quick answer attempt:
"An agile plan is a set of steps/working blocks that based on the
current understanding need to be executed to meet the acceptance
criteria of a card. An agile plan usually is pretty accurate and
detailed about the first steps and more vague/flexible/scarce about
the steps coming afterwards. However, it should convey that there is a
plan that is worked against and that is continuously adjusted."

>
> Who is supposed to do the work coming out of this and in particular the reports?

PMs are supposed be the main owners/drivers of producing these
reports. Hence, they would also come up with a standardized
form/template for the reporting. Of course, TLs need to support them
and do the hard thinking to ensure that the agile plan makes sense and
is not too far from reality.

-- 
Alexander Sack
Technical Director, Linaro Platform Teams
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