Release 2: Work Items best practices

Group Name: TP15Source: Scarrone Enrico, Telecom ItaliaMeeting Date: 2015-01-19

Recall: Why oneM2M has WI?

• Assure that there is a sufficient member support for a specific technical activity (that’s why there is a minimum number of supporting companies)

• Assure that the proposed work is relevant for oneM2M and there is consensus to develop it in oneM2M (that’s why consensus is required to approve it)

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Recall: Why oneM2M has WI?

• Assure that a clear-as-possible common understanding of the work to be developed and the related timeframe (that’s why description and objectives are very important)

• Trace the progress of oneM2M technical work. There is a strict relation between the Work Items and the Work Program.

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WI: What are aboutThe Working Procedures and the Method of Work give a relevant flexibility (not exhaustive list):•a WI can be a new specification, a set of new specifications•A CR to a specification, a set of CR to one or more specifications. •The specifications targeted by a single WI may pertain to one or more WG.«Rules are for the wise people to be used not for the fools to be abused»© 2014 oneM2M Partners

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WI: What are aboutThe Working Procedures and the Method of Work give a relevant flexibility (not exhaustive list):•a WI can be a new specification, a set of new specifications•A CR to a specification, a set of CR to one or more specifications. •The specifications targeted by a single WI may pertain to one or more WG.«Rules are for the wise people to be used not for the fools to be abused»© 2014 oneM2M Partners

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CR process

The CR process foresees that only changes needs to be approved to specification after first approval of a specification. So a new version of a specification implementing approved CRs is automatically approved.

CR are associated to WI to keep a link among the changes related to a specific feature, for tracing and rollback purposes.

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Best practices: specification life cycle

Existing specifications and new releases need: •Maintenance of past releases versions (correction)•Correction and refinement of the technical document in the new release•Addition of new technical content in the new release

The Work Program traces the new technical content development

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So for Release 2…….

A set of WI are required to maintain each specification:

•1 for Maintenance of Release 1 version

•1 for correction and minor technical enhancements in Release 2 version.Minor means something that have a very small technical impact and can be done typically in one CR focalized on a specific existing technical feature

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Plus….a set of new R2 Work Items• A new work item for each new feature/functionality and

for each major enhancement of a new feature/functionality

• These WI are focalized on the feature, so are typically targeting CRs to a specification or to the set of specifications impacted by the feature (potentially engaging typically more WGs)

The work program trace the development of the feature, not the development of the specification

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