This process is concerned with how we take a pool of ideas, analyse them and then divide them into a set of JIRA issues that will form the start of the development process to take them to implementation. It involves the filtering of the pool based on some measure or intuition of realism and the breakdown of what's left into clearly defined tasks.
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New ideas from the Road Map Ideas document and other ideas are discussed and evaluated in this monthly call. This is a chance for brainstorming and without being too prescriptive, we will broadly follow the Six Hats of Critical Thinking methods to assess ideas. Six Hats encourages looking at possible ideas from different angles, represented by a hat colour.
White hat
We start by sharing the information about the idea.
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This hat comes into play as and when needed as a control and moderation mechanism to manage the thinking process.
Conclusion
The end result of this call should be ideas that we intend to take forward and actions on individuals to take specific ideas to break down into JIRA epics and issues.
Ideas Breakdown
It is the responsibility of individuals actioned in the Ideas Call to take selected ideas and turn them into appropriate JIRA issues. For those less familiar with how to do this, the place to start is by creating an "epic" (assuming the piece of work is reasonably substantial). The epic describes the overall goal - it is a broad description of the idea. The epic is then subdivided into JIRA issues by considering what smaller pieces of work need to be done and in what order to complete the epic working with the Product Owner.