Hi Sharan, inline... Le 15/07/2016 à 11:53, Sharan Foga a écrit :
Hi All We have an amazing number of Jiras open and because we have so many it's getting very confusing as to what are the priorities and things are getting clogged up. I've got a few initial ideas and suggestions that could maybe help improve the workflow 1) Highlight Parked / On Hold Jiras We have quite a few Jira issues that are 'parked' or 'on hold' – so it would be good if these were clearly identified so that if people come across them they know that they are not being worked on (and the reason). We could look at adding a new status, a flag or a label that could hold this information.
For those we could maybe close them with the "Later" status? So nothing to do (but closing them), we did that already, not sure it completely fits for all cases though...
2) QA Review for New Jiras I think it would also be good to look at introducing some type of review stage for newly created issues. This also could give us a bit of QA to make sure that there is enough information needed for the task to be worked on. It could also be then allocated to a workstream.
Are we not already (slowly) doing it? Do we really need a policy or (a) tool/s for that? I fear we don't miss policies but rather free time from contributors...
3) Define Workstreams We have a good idea of the areas that we want to focus so it should be relatively easy to setup some workstreams. I'd like to explore the idea of workstreams a bit more because it could be something that could be an entire sprint, an issue category or it could be the equivalent of a planned future release. I know Jira allow us to define a Roadmap and versions and that we already have something setup that helps us with our release management (I.e.automatically incorporates all the Jiras applied to a version) that we don't want to break – so this might need more investigation 4) Review of Old Jiras One of things that we've had hanging around for ages is a lot of old Jiras. At the moment I think Jacques takes on a few at a time, so it could be good to get some other volunteers and start looking at these and either closing them, parking them or allocating them to a workstream.
This relates to point 1
These are a few of the ideas I had in mind – the main objective is to make Jira into a useful tool for help us with our workflow. Please feel free to let me have your feedback and comments, and if anyone else has other ideas and suggestion to share, then please do.
Thanks for this initiative Sharan! Jacques
Thanks Sharan
