Obstacles
Limitations
for each item, try to describe
- nature of the problem
- background why the problem exists
- how the problem effects the users
- how the problem should be fixed
why this
- when users know limitations they can go around them
- when developpers know about the problem they can help with coming up with better solutions and even help fix the problem
- it's easier to trust someone if they aknowledge a problem and it's even better when they have a solution for it
- open source is based on transparency and trust
issue
- Problem
- Symptoms
- Solution
areas
- privileges
- modularity
- release policy
Rank each issue on several criteria
- Type
- 7: Crash: Bug causes crash or data loss. Asserts in the Debug release.
- 6: Major usability: Impairs usability in key scenarios.
- 5: Minor usability: Impairs usability in secondary scenarios.
- 4: Balancing: Enables degenerate usage strategies that harm the experience.
- 3: Visual and Sound Polish: Aesthetic issues
- 2: Localization:
- 1: Documentation: A documentation issue
- Likelihood
- 5: Blocking further progress on the daily build.
- 4: A User would abandon the product. Cannot RTM. The Team would hold the release for this bug.
- 3: A User would likely not deploy the product. Will show up in review. Clearly a noticeable issue.
- 2: A Pain – users won’t like this once they notice it. A moderate number of users won’t deploy.
- 1: Nuisance – not a big deal but noticeable. Extremely unlikely to affect deployment.
- Priority
- 5: Will affect all users.
- 4: Will affect most users.
- 3: Will affect average number of users.
- 2: Will only affect a few users.
- 1: Will affect almost no one.