Process
Gate Reviews
Sales
Best Practices
Mystery Topic
100

Every Epic must have one of these unless it is a triage not needing blockers

What is Issue in Epic

100

These 2 states for incoming and 1 state for approved Epics are used for G0 agenda respectively

What is Open/Owner and CCB

100

This state is used when a quote is sent

What is Resolved

100

These two tickets should be created if it is suspected to be quotable.

What is Quote and Invoice

100

These two fields are required when the resolution is Fixed on an Epic

What is Software Change and Configuration change

200

The PM selects this field after quote acceptance for Epics blocked by Quote

What is Planning

200

This team’s blocker requirements may not be known at G0 or G1 and may need a ROM effort for G1 quote estimates.

What is ITOPS or SysOps/DbOps

200

These two data points are required in the ticket for Sales to VR an invoice ticket

What is Invoice # and Month

200

A minimum of these 3 things should be included in every Epic description

What is Revision, Background, Requirements

200

These resolution types are used for implementation, no fix required, completion of task, and do not plan to do

What are Fixed, As Designed, Done, Won’t Do

300

This field describes the affected version, description of change, what was tested, and resolved version

What is Implemented Solution

300

For an unapproved quote ticket, these 4 things should be captured in the Description prior to moving the Epic to G1

What are description of deliverable/service, an email address to send the quote to, a breakdown of the approved estimates from G1, and context of schedule (if applicable).

300

These two fields should be completed on the Epic when a customer accepts a quote and is invoiced respectively.

What is Quote Accepted and Invoice Sent

300

A minimum of these two things should occur when you have a change in requirements of a G1 approved ticket that is not significant enough to take back to G0.

What is add a revision and comment on blockers

300

These 5 are the components used for blockers

What are AD_SWE, AD_PERF, AD_WB, AD_SysOps, AD_DbOps

400

A maximum of these 4 fields must be complete when resolving a ticket

What is Resolution, Implemented Solution, Config Change, Software Change

400

These two things represent when a Quote and Invoice task are approved to be worked (i.e. Open)

What is G1 approval for quote and  Production Deployment and acceptance for invoice

400

This state is used when a quote is accepted

What is Verified Resolved.

400

These two things should be considered when before adjusting a previously approved planned end date

What is commenting on blocker or taking back to Planning

400

The Verified on Test and Q/A software states represent what

What is Ready for Programs QA and Ready for Deployment

500

Only the Gate Approvers are allowed to change RFRB to these 3 states unless otherwise specified

What is Scoping, Execution, and Quote

500

A PM is done with a project that has blockers when it is ready for this gate and the tickets are in this state and what is the exception.

What is G2 and Verified Resolved and the exception is Invoice

500

This team is responsible for the quote and invoice tickets

What is Sales

500

The PM should monitor daily these two Sections on the Programs page to check when their Epic is scoped, ready for QA or deployment

What is Estimated and Programs Test & Deployment

500

The PM is expected to champion, own, and provide the highest quality of this process and communication tools

What is Jira and Confluence