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[Ilias Biris <ilias.biris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

thanks to all who responded. I got only +1s by the way. TLs/PMs can we
already start this model this week? It would be a level 1 reporting
(weekly-style) based on the description - can these updates be added by
end of Friday this week - latest?

Best regards,
Ilias

On 15/05/12 17:41, Ilias Biris wrote:
> 
> Hello folks
> 
> Regarding the JIRA reporting from engineering I would like to propose
> the following change. As a reminder currently I have asked for a
> progress update in JIRA cards on a biweekly basis (every second Wednesday)
> 
> Setting up two levels of reports with individual requirements:
> 
>  1. weekly JIRA progress updates extracted from the weekly team meeting
>      - must notify of new BLOCKED work, problems or risks
>      - it is ok to not have an update if there is no significant change,
> we would take no news as good news (everything going well). However if
> you reported blocked items earlier, or risks, you should follow up
> otherwise I will try to get in touch with the TLs to get fresh info on
> those troubled items.
> 
>  2. monthly - on the week of the release: getting detailed JIRA progress
> updates based on the release information, post mortem feedback which
> should include additionally the TL/PM assessment of milestone ETA for
> delivery of the card (and a warning about any changes to ETA). I would
> expect that even if progress is going superwell there would be some
> update on the progress in this monthly info
>      - in this report we should also get a list of blueprints packages
> delivered for the card during the  related month update. However please
> note that just listing the blueprints does not say much to the beholder
> -  the narrative mentioned above is important.
> 
> This breaks slightly the requirement of having succinct reports, but it
> would give an opportunity to cover slightly more questions on a monthly
> basis.
> 
> What do you think? Is that something we could establish already? Is the
> timing useful? Hopefully the 2nd level of the updates would not be a
> huge amount of extra work, but I am open to counter proposals.
> 
> 
> BR,


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