On 2019-02-26 16:28:00 -0500 (-0500), Zane Bitter wrote: [...]
What I *do* think we need is to be able to have a roadmap for chunks of larger goals, to say we're going to do this chunk in T, this one in U, this one in V and it's going to deliver X benefit at the end even if the first part doesn't seem that useful.
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And not that it's the only possible example, but a good recent one is the Python 3 transition we've been undertaking for several cycles already and have at least a couple more ahead of us before it's done. We didn't say "switch to Python3 is a multi-cycle goal" and instead broke it up into goal phases each manageable with a cycle and with their own distinct completion criteria. This also provides increased opportunity for retrospection at the end of each phase and adjustment of the longer-term effort when we see a need.