Lead Checklist (Mavericks)

Mavericks lead is responsible for updating these documents when in charge. I have only listed the major tasks right now. This can be updated with the new tasks. 

DailyWeeklyBiWeeklyMonthly

Mavericks Dashboard

Ideally: First thing in the morning

Ideally takes 5 mints.

The first thing in the morning should be to view the performance review board and verify everything is going on smoothly.

Update Weekly Rotations

Ideally: Every Monday Morning

Ideally takes 5 mints.


Update the document and add the active members. Additionally, if that is the last rotation, update the document and add next rotation members. 

Note: During the Cambridge-Escalation experiment please contact Educator engineering lead (Scott Dun) for Cambridge Engineers rotation. 


Bi-Weekly Performance Reviews

Ideally: Every 2nd Friday evening

Ideally takes 30-40 mints

Update the escalation performance review document. This document will include the effort and time spent by the on the different issues during /wiki/spaces/EDUCATOR/pages/163022835. Update the Notes panel also to memorize what were the particulars you did during the cycle. 


Performance Blogs (Mavericks)

Ideally: First week of every month

Ideally takes a couple of hours. 

Monthly, spend some time to create a monthly performance chart for the team efforts. This gives a clear indication of where we have to spend our efforts during the last month and what we are expecting in the coming month. This also provides a great way to appreciate the teamwork.

Daily Standup + Meeting session

Standup: 15 mints

Discussion (optional): 20-25 mints 

Hold a daily standup and meeting session with the Lahore team. The discussion session is important when someone in the team wants to discuss an issue or have any updates to share with the team so he can share when everyone is present. 

Update Slack Channel* UserGroups.

Ideally: Every Monday Morning

Ideally takes 1-5 mint.

Again, consult the /wiki/spaces/EDUCATOR/pages/161038010 document and find the active rotation (which you have updated in the above task). Add the members @handle in the alias.

Update @mavericks-oncall

Escalation Backlog Grooming

Ideally: Every 2nd Monday 

This meeting is for Escalation Lahore team, the goal of this meeting is to go through the backlog and find higher priority issues and discuss them. 

Make sure the following:

  1. Every issue has a clear User Impact Summary
  2. It has clear expected behavior & Steps to reproduce. If not, discuss with the team how it can be reproduced and picked up by the team.
  3. An issue has all the product input if required. 


Update Escalations - Cambridge/Lahore standup Calendar Event

Ideally: Every Monday Morning

Ideally takes a couple of mints.

Update the current weeks' calendar and Add/Remove participants relative to the current active rotation.

Conduct /wiki/spaces/EDUCATOR/pages/160685098

Ideally: Every 2nd Friday evening

Ideally takes 30-40 mints

Hold a Retrospective with the team.



Update Scrum of Scrums Notes

Ideally: Every Friday evening

Ideally takes 10-15 mints. 

Update SOS notes ideally on Friday.



  • Slack Channel: escalationssustaining-mavericks