2020-05-15 Retrospective

Published our first-ever Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)

• @Saad Yousaf (Deactivated) published our first ADR in Progams app

• We should be the first point of contact for any ADRs in our team.

Ali feeling like a regular team member

• Ali is finally being able to help members when they need help.

  • Example:

    • Splunk

    • ReadReplica

    • Sandbox

Feedback on upcoming teams was good

• We captured and documented the question around the upcoming 2-team-split.

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Triage issues quickly

• Goal: Triage as quickly as we receive the email (Ideally within one hour)

• Improve: How to improve this?

  • Have a rotation – adds responsibility.

  • Look for new triage issues after the standup – they don’t normally file at the end of a day

  • Needs to be more proactive

  • Contribution ++

Team Slack Channels + helpful channels for Ali

• Prepare a team document @Ali Akbar :

  • “The second Step after Onboarding”

    • Slack Channels to join

    • How to triage an incoming issue?

      • Subscribe the New Triage Queue for emails

      • On the basis of Rubric

    • How to make your first PR

    • How to create a sandbox?

Improve OKRs and assign them to individuals.

• We would need to improve all our OKRs for Q2.

• After improving share the OKRs with the OKRs.

Regular 1x1s with the team members on Rotation

No guidelines around ADR process and review

• Problem: No idea who will approve the ADR

  • What did we learn?

    • Who will review the ADR?

      • The code owner

      • The code architecture designer or contributor

• Why ADR? (Architecture Decision Record)

  • https://open-edx-proposals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/oep-0019-bp-developer-documentation.html?highlight=adr#adrs

Working from home update

• Getting used to Work from home

• Communication is a lot better than before

• Update

  • No difference [Dawoud Sheraz, Saad Yousaf ]

  • Same Productivity – [Ahtisham, Ali, Dawoud Sheraz, Asad Azam ]

  • Internet issues sometimes – [Ahtisham, Dawoud Sheraz, Asad Azam, Saad ]

  • Communication Issues sometimes – [Ali ]

Two new upcoming teams

1. Incident Management team

2. Product Delivery team