Fluid Task Teams

Proposal

Deemphasize staff Teams by converting them to more fluid Task Teams with Leaders and allowing members to hold more than one label.

During the transition period and for compatibility reasons (MyBB’s Credits) Primary Groups will be initially non-removable and members from Subgroups will be assigned to them.

Proposed initial Task Groups:

• Management (MAN) (Primary Group)

  Legal owners and Project Manager

• Development (DEV) (Primary Group)

  Product development

• Design (DES) (Development Subgroup)

  Design development

• Security (SEC) (Development Subgroup)

  Security issues

• Devops (OPS) (Primary Group) (formerly Quality Assurance)

  Repository maintenance, release engineering

• Web (WEB) (Devops Subgroup)

  Web platforms maintenance

• Support (SUP) (Primary Group)

  Product support

• Community (COM) (Primary Group)

  Public Relations, Community curation

• Editorial (EDI) (Community Subgroup)

  Content of MyBB.com websites, Documentation and Blog

Justification

• Visualize overlapping activities independent of specific Team membership
• Transparently document responsibilities
• Adapt to changing activity areas faster

Effects & Implications

• the MyBB.com staff page will include Task Team listing and descriptions
• the MyBB.com staff page will include links to specific personal entries
• Community Forums staff profiles will link to personal MyBB.com staff page entries, listing assigned teams
• the Task Teams and membership might be pulled from the staff page to be displayed in profiles and posts
• the GitHub organization will only include teams relevant to the development process

Metadata

• First draft: 4 Dec 2017
• Author(s): Devilshakerz
• Status: Accepted