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Lauren - I just read your comments and agree the charter is broader than User Stories. 

We'll see what ideas others have and then bring it into a team meeting to finalize direction.
Thanks
Carol

-----Original Message-----
From: Lauren Sell [mailto:lauren at openstack.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 2:17 PM
To: Barrett, Carol L <carol.l.barrett at intel.com>
Cc: Kenny Johnston <kenny at kencjohnston.com>; product-wg at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [Product] Proposal - Rename our Group to the User Story Team

My email just crossed paths with yours, Carol :)

I don’t think the term Product scares many people away and it’s a known entity at this point. If you think a name change is warranted, I like the broader terms you propose...


> On Dec 6, 2016, at 4:15 PM, Barrett, Carol L <carol.l.barrett at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> HI Kenny - Where did you find the definition of WG vs Team? I thought it was the other way around (teams = short term; WG = long term).
> 
> I think there are pros & cons to changing names. One of the notables being name recognition.
> 
> That said, I think this is a good discussion for us to have. If we are going to change from Product, then some of the things that come to mind are: Market Requirements  or Planning.
> 
> Thoughts?
> Carol
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenny Johnston [mailto:kenny at kencjohnston.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 11:57 AM
> To: product-wg at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: [Product] Proposal - Rename our Group to the User Story Team
> 
>   - There has been some recent discussion around what it means to be a
>   Working Group vs Team, with one of the guiding principles highlighted being
>   that Working Groups should be short-lived in nature, whereas Teams can
>   exist in perpetuity
>   - Given our role as the reviewers of the
>   openstack/openstack-user-stories repository[1], I believe we should exist
>   in perpetuity
>   - The term "Product" has implied a number of things that I think we no
>   longer intend:
>      - That our membership is made exclusively Product managers
>      - That it is our role to treat OpenStack like a "product"
>      - That we serve only those organizations who build products around
>      OpenStack
> 
> For these reasons I'd like to propose that we change our name to the User Story team. I thought I would start the discussion here and ask that we add it as an agenda item for next week's meeting[2].
> 
> Thoughts? High-fives? Boos?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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> [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/product-team
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