Agile process for W3C working groups

• Erik Anderson, https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikanderson
• Assistance from Serge Meytin, https://www.linkedin.com/in/smeytin

Problem Statements

• W3C members are drowning in content & lost in context.
  • Content is in WIKI's but its context is in email/IRC threads.
• Poor visibility into work progress
• Little to no cross-group coordination.
  • W3C staff doesn't do a good job coordinating between groups.
    • Not sure W3C staff should do this as its our responsibilities.
    • As members we must join those groups and push our agenda, however that doesn't scale?
• Cradle to grave issue & topic tracking. Over promises & under deliveries without tracking velocity.
• No insight into another groups work & process
• W3C is an organization. All soft managed, no hard management.
• Tasks and deadlines are lost in conference calls and emails
• Deliverables lost in the dreaded WIKI's & email threads
• Deliverables are NOT:
  • WIKI's
• Documentation is NOT:
  • WIKI's
  • A PPT power point file
• Context is not:
  • An email thread
  • A surge in IRC comments
• New ideas and items are generally lost in poor in-take process.
• W3C WG processes are still based on 1990's development processes. These processes have matured yet W3C WG processes have not.

Tools

• https://www.wrike.com
• It all starts and ends with the tool
• Capability of the tool are modeled after modern processes and lessons learned.
  • Centralized issue tracking
  • report generation
  • metrics to measure
    • Work capacity
    • velocity

Resources

Get Started Learning:

  - https://www.wrike.com/help/video-tutorials/
     - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek9lDLbbfec
       Dreaded WIKI & email threads
       

Wrike Video Tutorials

  - https://www.wrike.com/help/video-tutorials/

Wrike Executive Reporting

  - https://www.wrike.com/help/reporting/

Wrike - Tips tricks and tutorials

  - https://www.wrike.com/resources/wrike-tips-tutorials/

Wrike Dashboards

  - https://www.wrike.com/help/dashboard/

Wrike Requests (and intake)

  - https://www.wrike.com/help/requests/
  - https://www.wrike.com/blog/build-first-wrike-request-form/

Enterprise video - Wrike Recorded Enterprise Demo

  - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3vvgzfRS3vXSjVtQ3dxY182d2c/view