On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 12:29:33PM -0800, Gaba wrote:

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Working pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/v7I_LqbS3EuBO0CP8Y74

The working pad includes the sponsored projects we have and a list of possible issues/tickets for each activity. Please, add anything else (with a ticket or without one) that may needs to be done when completing each activity. We will discuss about this in the meeting.

What would be useful for me here is for the team to come up with three to ten "goal statements", which are the high level categories of what's going to be different in the world once we do them.

That way, when we're doing "upgrade pion version in snowflake", we can know *why* we're doing it, and be in a position to (a) realize that it's no longer the best way to move that goal forward, and/or (b) agilely identify and file tickets for other things we need to do to reach the goal.

Bonus points if (some of) the goals are user oriented, i.e. trying to change things from the user's perspective.

Hopefully the goal statements become obvious as we look at, sort, and prioritize the existing tickets. But maybe we also look to our proposals and statements-of-work to remind ourselves of big-picture areas we want to work toward.

Then a piece of the retrospective afterwards can be "how are we doing at those goals?" rather than just "how many of the tickets did we get to?"

But all of this said, I will defer to Gaba if she feels this is not a helpful way forward. :)

I will aim to be at the roadmapping meeting, but I have a board meeting right before it so I might be somewhat late.

--Roger