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Hi Kenny,

Thanks very much for starting the discussion on the list. I am not involved with the team day to day, but from my perspective, I would caution against changing the name to “User Stories" because I think it undersells the mission. That said, I would definitely support evolving from a “Working Group” to a “Team” (although I think you’re already using that term in some cases).

I know the Board and the User Committee view the Product (Team) as a very strategic initiative, and I’m afraid the name change would imply a very tactical scope. My understanding is that in an ideal world, the Product Team is a horizontal body that helps aggregate, prioritize and find commonality across feature requests from the different vertical teams / constituencies (such as Scientific, Large Deployments, Enterprise, Telco, etc.), in order to bubble up and evangelize the top priorities across the community in a consumable way. The Product Team would also ideally follow some of the top priorities through the design and development process, and of course help document the roadmap, as you are currently doing quite well.

There are of course challenges to achieving the full vision, including resources and culture / process changes, but as a heads up the Foundation staff intends to provide better support for the Product Team in 2017 (both upstream and downstream to help close the feedback loop) :)

Just my thoughts as you are considering the change...

Best,
Lauren



> On Dec 6, 2016, at 1:57 PM, Kenny Johnston <kenny at kencjohnston.com> wrote:
> 
>   - 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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> [1] https://github.com/openstack/openstack-user-stories
> [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/product-team
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