[Product] Proposal - Rename our Group to the User Story Team

Kenny Johnston kenny at kencjohnston.com
Wed Dec 7 03:01:15 UTC 2016


On Tue, 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 it was mentioned in the UC meeting in Barcelona, and again on a
recent UC thread regarding the AUC Recognition WG.


>
> 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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