[Design] Preview Meeting - Monday Feb 26th @ 1:15pm

[Philippe Bossut]

Hi,

About...

Sheila Mooney wrote:
> + There is some anxiety around the uncertain release date. Some are 
> not comfortable with a release date that is constantly slipping or not 
> being able to rally and plan/pace around a fixed solid date. They 
> would like to pick a fixed date and cut in order to make it.

...the only way I know of handling risks is to mitigate them with some 
level of process, i.e. predetermine check lists used to assess the 
health and progress of the project. In that particular instance 
(schedule uncertainty) there's no substitute to pacing ourselves through 
a set of identified milestones and check if we pass them or not.

I wrote such a list of fine granularity milestones and associated 
criteria some weeks ago:
    
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2007-February/007658.html

I didn't receive any comment on it meaning that either everyone agreed 
or, more than likely, the objective of such process was unclear.

So, here we go: the objective of this process is to mitigate the risk of 
an uncontrollably slipping schedule: identify were we are in the 
schedule, how we are doing and how far we are from the final objective.

Of course, this is of little use if there's no buy in from the 
interested parties, so I think I'm asking the question again: comments 
on the proposed process?

Cheers,
- Philippe