BUP component meeting / Bilbao

Attendees

- Ana Pereira
- Cees Michielsen
- Julian Holmes
- Christoph Steindl
- Bruce MacIsaac

Topics discussed

1. Demonstrated how to work independently in your own plug-in.

2. Add a guideline on CVS and contribute to a task.

3. Showed how to do a merge (manual).

4. Showed how to create a view for a particular role.

5. Looked in detail at the assess_results task to see how we could add a guideline on retrospectives.

6. We refactored the assess_results task along guidelines of:
- conciseness
- moving checkpoints into a checklist

7. Seems that work product state doesn't work - Bruce to investigate.

8. Ana is interested in:
a. contributing guidance around domain modeling.
b. supporting requirements
c. business rules
d. user interface guidelines
e. deployment discipline
f. user manuals?
g. portuguese translation

9. Christopher
a. Explore possibility of putting Scrum into EPF.
b. Explore how techniques you would contribute could fit in:
- retrospectives
- how to gather group feedback
- theory of constraints (maybe not this year)
- applying theory of constraints as part of the EPF project

10. Winfried
a. Learning tool, working with customers to help them use EPF.
b. Perhaps contribute content on SPICE?

11. Julian
a. Project management plan - review and contribute to it
- may be missing some stuff
- for example, project plan template missing process
- risks not visible enough
b. Requirements management
- base content
- design content for commercial pieces (plug-in)
- traceability
c. Supporting requirements

12. Cees:
a. Project management - review and contribution on metrics and quality assurance.
b. Lifecycle - different ones for different kinds of projects
c. Estimation - plugin content for large projects

Actions

1. Call meetings on project management and requirements.
Propose 8am pacific Wed next week for project management and requirements - ask what the US folks are doing.
At that meeting, commit to what we will deliver for the iteration.

2. Prepare for the meeting
- Review the contents of the discipline.
- Each person generates a list of what they think are reasonable work items for people to take on.