Ricardo
managed to scratch a few notes during our telecon this morning - thank you
Ricardo
Meeting
notes: 1/21/2009
Participants: Ana, Steve, Ricardo
Discussion
and actions:
- Use Agile
2009 as a milestone to have the vision and outreach message, and some materials
available.
- While there are
software process design guidelines for software process engineers, most of
those entrusted with the software process design or who need to design a
software process do not have a lot of useful information or help available for
them, The industry lacks training on how to design, build, and tailor process (in
general) that is accessible to the average developer or PM who gets stuck with
the problem of software process design. As part of outreach we want to make
training content for software process design easily available. Training material
could start (associated risks, governance, etc), then adding elements of epf
(practices, tool, etc) to serve as a "language" for process
design and scaling
- Steve is
working on training modules based on the presentation "agile grows
up" Portions of these modules should be available by the end
of February and will be donated to Eclipse.
- We
resurrected the idea of writing a book on a "red-book" model, getting
people interested in a relatively short time frame (4-6 weeks) to put together
a book around "agile grows up" Steve will set up a
collaborative works site (possibly a google group) to facilitate the work.
Steve will try to assemble some kind of outline. It is strongly recommended
that if you are interested in creating an EPF book, that we just start writing
and toss whatever we have into the google group (or other repository) that we
have some kind of starting point. After all , editing is easier than writing.
- Steve will
outline objectives we need to reach and milestones to have this work going - on
May time-frame we'd meet face to face to advance the work on the book.
Steve will "ping" those who have expressed an interest in writing a
book.
- Steve will
factor in Ana's comments and polish the Vision doc, rename doc from "epf
1.6 vision" to "epf outreach vision", and finish the feature
description list
- Steve has reserved a number of domain names including
EPFAlliance.org for an EPF outreach website. Now all we need is a home
for the bits and someone who can design a website.
-
We agreed that there is no need for a vision doc for epf 1.6, but project plan
and iteration plans should be enough for specifying the scope of this release
- Ana is
looking for assistance from a student to write the lean sigma practice
- Ana will
propose a practices structure for Scrum plug-in
