Encourage Team Roadmaps and Planning
This session discusses how to encourage teams to build per-cycle roadmaps to better coordinate work.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Jono Bacon
- Priority:
- High
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Informational
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Jono Bacon
Whiteboard
Gobby notes from UDS-L:
Problems:
- Need to document decisions, especially UDS ones
- Often a lot of commitment but no actual production
Project Roadmaps:
wiki.ubuntu.
- We all hate bureaucracy, todo lists, many forms of planning
- Teams can make roadmaps (eg ubuntu-
Example: wiki.ubuntu.
Structure:
* Objective: Overall goal you're trying to accomplish (eg "make better")
* Success criteria: Be as specific as possible (binary yes/no)
* Actions: A list. Get specific volunteers to do specific things, name them, link to launchpad bugs (and use assignment on them)
* Blueprint: Have a launchpad blueprint for your roadmap.
- Project Management 101 shows that writing things down after people agree to them makes it much more likely to actually happen.
- When the success criteria are done you can also mark the blueprint as implemented, then we have an automated list of all successful roadmaps.
- Can also use blueprint whiteboard to track progress.
- Everyone involved can subscribe to the blueprint (it'll inform them when whiteboard is updated too).
* Driver: Someone specific to manage the blueprint
Only include things you're committing to in the cycle!
This process helps focus things on the particular cycle (perhaps limiting it).
TODO:
* (./) Need to update the roadmaps wiki page to explain the blueprints usage - Scott Ritchie.
* Explain and document how to have observers keep up to date with blueprints - Jono Bacon.
* Explain on Roadmap wiki page how to manage progress and evaluation note that teams should have a launchpad project - Jono Bacon.
* Mention Roadmaps elsewhere - membership applications and team approval applications - Jono Bacon.
Italian experience of a previous use of blueprint for marketing activities
https:/
The Launchpad team wants help with making things easy for nontechnical users. We're not just about bazaar branches and bug tracking!
