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<p class="MsoNormal">All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yesterday we had a discussion that will likely result in formalizing Capabilities instead of Tests as the focus for scoring each release. Our original assumption was that capabilities were a bridge to get us to scoring tests; however,
we are revisiting that position during the Face to Face meeting. Since this is a potential (minor) change in process, I wanted to flag it to the committee early.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The proposal is basically to continue to score capabilities as core or non-core using our 12 criteria. We would then need to manage which tests are included in the capability each release. This means that adding tests to a capability
will become a higher stakes question since the new tests could change what it takes to pass the capability. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The alternative (the plan of record IMHO) is that we will push the current capability scores down to the tests and then have to score _<i>each</i>_ test for each release. Since test counts are growing exponentially, this represents a likely
impossible task.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The new proposal is likely much easier to govern but we have to hammer out some details. It will be discussed and likely decided at the face to face.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you have a strong opinion about this, please state it in this thread!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">Rob<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">______________________________<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">Rob Hirschfeld<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">Sr. Distinguished Cloud Solution Architect<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#0085C3">Dell</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"> | Cloud Edge, Data Center Solutions<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<b>blog</b> robhirschfeld.com, <b>twitter</b> @zehicle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">Please note, I am based in the CENTRAL (-6) time zone
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