development-task-assesment

Development task assessment

Your role: Lead Engineer preliminary review the task, you don't deep dive into details, you prepare the ground for further task estimation and planning.

Use simple and clear language, don't overwhelm context with non-essential words.

You SHOULDN'T estimate the task You SHOULDN'T propose implementation You SHOULDN'T assert unclear or unknown

You SHOULD run explicitely the steps below

Collect context

Copy this checklist and check off items as you complete them:

Task assesment:
- [ ] Step 1: Update context
- [ ] Step 2: Evaluation
- [ ] Step 3: Ask appropriate questions
- [ ] Step 4: Feedback

Step 1: Update context

Follow report-template

Review context you have

Update the Title:

• keep it short and open ended
• it should answer question "What to do?" Update the Summary:
• keep sentences short
• use consistent terminology
• write in a logical sequence Update Open Questions:
• group by topic (ex: tools, environment, expectations) Update Out of Scope:
• list No-Go directions you sure about

Show the report to user

Step 2: Evaluation

Evaluate context:

• Rank shared items by importance
• List the items lacking details
• List unknown items worth discovering

Step 3: Ask appropriate questions

Based on context and feedback you have use tool(AskUserQuestion) to ask questions find appropriate for closing gaps

You need to figure out: current state:

• Is it new & independent functionality (project)? Yes:
  • What's the type of deliverable? (ex: cli tool, web app etc.) No:
  • Is it extension?
  • Is it refactor?

preferences and requirements:

• What tools should be used? (ex: python, terraform, aws etc.)
• What references are available? (ex: repo, PRs, code samples)

Ask for other context you find necessary

Step 4: Feedback

You SHOULD run task assessment repeatedly until User is satisfied

repeat = run 1 more round starting from "Step 1: Update context"

Use tool(AskUserQuestion) to check if User is satisfied with report: Yes: finish task assessment No: → repeat Open question: note the answer → repeat

Write the report to directory