[epf-dev] IMPORTANT: Monday 8 AM PDT Meeting - OpenUP Refocus

[Per Kroll <pkroll@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

it is increasingly obvious that OpenUP
is not tracking according to plan. Even worse, we do not have a meaningful
way of assessing where we are at.... 
We need to refocus our efforts, prioritize
what needs to be done, ask everybody to step up, establish a credible plan,
and track to that plan.

Some example problems:
- Our burndown spreadsheet is after
4 weeks still not showing enough uptodate data to be relevant. 
- Burndown chart has major flaws: If
you do not update status for a week, your remaining work by default goes
down to zero... Makes the data look nice, but it does not reflect reality....
- Glidepath is not used correctly. The
point was that each team lead should update the glidepath once, and then
only update the glidepath at iteration ends. We still have the dummy data
I put in.
- It is hard to assess, but the remaining
work seems to not go down very much... when you adjust for incomplete data,
but it is hard to say
- We have no prioritization of remaining
work (at least not that is visible), which makes it hard to know whether
we work on the most important issues
- We will fail to reach our M4 milestone
with content freeze
- We have no assessment of how much
work is associated with each task, so all tasks are given equal weight
in the burndown
- My gut feeling is that we are not
prioritizing some critical and time-consuming tasks associated with ensuring
a good initial user experience


To discuss what to do, I would like
to have a meeting on Monday 7/10, 8 AM PDT.
I would like each content leader to
come. Others are also welcome. 
Agenda:
- An honest analysis of where we are
at (team leads, please update the burndown spreadsheet)
- Discuss a credible plan for the end
game
- Be crisp on what we need to do in
the short term
- Discuss how to best mobilize our team


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Thanks

Per Kroll
STSM, Manager Methods: RUP / RMC
Project Lead: Eclipse Process Framework
Rational Software, IBM Corp
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