Improve refinement process
Why is this change being made?
We are trying to improve our refinement process in Package. Here is my proposal to further build on the MR Steve made to assign a refinement DRI.
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Issues are coming into the milestone unrefined | Use labels to better plan for refinement |
Unclear what the process is when refinement results in new issues | Adds guidelines for refinement DRI |
Product designer needs to pre-refine issues before engineering refinement begins (e.g. having informal conversations to scope technical feasibility), but should only focus on issues that are likely to be built to be efficient | Use labels for issues that need to be refined within the quarter that product designer can monitor |
Randomly assigning refinement DRI not defined |
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Added a description to this MR explaining the reasons for the proposed change, per say why, not just what - Copy/paste the Slack conversation to document it for later, or upload screenshots. Verify that no confidential data is added.
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Assign reviewers for this MR to the correct Directly Responsible Individual/s (DRI) - If the DRI for the page/s being updated isn’t immediately clear, then assign it to one of the people listed in the
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- If the DRI for the page/s being updated isn’t immediately clear, then assign it to one of the people listed in the
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Edited by Katie Macoy