Engineering Process: Balanced teams and balanced decision-making

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Engineering Process: Balanced teams and balanced decision-making #4

Open utako opened 5 years ago

utako commented 5 years ago

P2: Understands and explains why balanced teams and balanced decision-making is important

Though I think that this is something I hope a P2 would do in the future, I don't believe our current organization and team structures are set up to enable this as a P2 activity. This seems like something that would currently be done by P3+ who's in the process of advocating for a balanced team.

Until both product and engineering are aligned on all or most CF teams about the benefits of a balanced team, I would not say most teams don't have the space nor opportunities to discuss this in a way that would allow a P2 to exhibit this behavior.

aramprice commented 5 years ago

Similar comments have come up frequently for me when gathering feedback. Often I hear:

"I don't even know what 'Balanced Team' means so I'm not answering this." or with an explanation
"If that's what 'Balanced Team' means we don't do that."

thereses commented 5 years ago

How have people helped teams to be more 'balanced'? In London we've run some workshops with mixed success. Would love to hear how others have approached it. cc @totherme

rosenhouse commented 5 years ago

Hi @utako , thanks for raising this issue.

We're starting to re-invest in this repo, and the first priority is to enable a contribution model so that you (or anyone) could open a pull-request for this sort of change. We've put a bit more detail about our plans this roadmap.

We don't have anything actionable yet. But once we've made concrete progress on that roadmap, we intend to respond again here with pointers to a contribution workflow.

Thanks for your patience!