[CWG-Stewardship] Forward Planning Draft

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 05:01:19PM +0000, Gomes, Chuck wrote:
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> I don't think it makes sense to cut off all DT work by 26 May.

I don't see how it is possible not to, if there is any hope of having
something available for people to read before the Buenos Aires
meeting.

The last time the CWG continued to have major items still in flight up
until the last minute, it released for public comment a draft proposal
with really enormous lacunae in it.  It is really hard to say anything
intelligent about a proposal where major details are still incomplete.

In Singapore, the idea was that the DTs were to be "agile" and
lightweight and return to the CWG in a week or two at most.  In agile,
a key element is that you are time boxed.  You get done what you can
get done by the end of the sprint.  If you can't get done by the ship
date, then you cut features.

My ex-wife used to tell her undergraduates, "I don't want the best
paper you can write in any possible world.  I want the best paper you
can write, in this world, by the deadline."  I think it is time we
accept we are out of time, and to turn in our work as it is.  

(BTW, apologies for missing the call today; I made a time-conversion
error.)

A

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