Improvement proposals help to start the conversation within the team for process improvements.
Description
Propose an improvement of your team's way of collaboration. These proposals help to start the conversation within the team for process improvements.
Properties
The document type improvement provides the following properties:
Severity
Measure the impact this improvement will have on your work. The higher the severity, the most likely it should be to put this improvement into place.
Driver
Name the team members that want to have the improvement applied and help to implement it.
Deadline
Log the date the improvement should be implemented.
Status
The status makes it easy to select improvement proposals. It is a very lightweight tracking tool. If you prefer to use JIRA for tracking changes, leave this property blank and simply link your JIRA issue with the improvement document where you might choose to add additional information.
Reference
Add references to information on external systems here. Probably this is an issue on your JIRA server.
Sections
Description
Describe the impediment that has been identified and the improvement that should remove it.
Impact
Describe the impact the improvement will have on the project. This has to be written from the business' perspective.
Test
Describe how it can be tested that the improvement has been successfully implemented.
Resolution
Provide information about how the improvement has been applied.
Subtasks to the Improvement
If for reason of complexity or collaboration you want to split the information for this improvement into several child documents, add them here.
Notes
These are internal notes that are usually not exported and only visible to team members with write access.
But this is not a safe place to store sensible information. It is just a convenience for the reader to not be bothered with notes stored here for the authors for later use. The security level is about suppressing the representation by a CSS style. Therefore consider this as a convenience for the reader, not as a security tool.
References
For a document the references section contains pointers to resources that prove the statements of the document.
Often these proofs are not easily distinguishable from further information. In this case you may want to skip the reference section in favour for the resource list.
Resources
The resources section provides references to further information to the topic of the document.
This may be information on the internet provided by the resource or information in the team's information systems. Anything the reader of the resource might want to know, may be listed here.
