DRs/Epic
This person holds the mighty power to set the fix version for a Dependency Request (DR)
Engineering Manager
When is it time to wave the "global impact" flag on an epic, and who’s responsibility to make it official?
The time the epic is committed
How often Droplets release their monthly releases.
Soft Release: Last Thursday of the previous month
Bug fixes for next 2 weeks
Final Release: 2nd Thursday of the month
What is the understanding of customer bug, and who raises the customer bugs
GCS team raised the customer bug
How often an epic marked for a release requires update?
When ever there is an update on epic.
When another team drops a new DR on our doorstep, this team’s job is to strategically solve, sweat, and maybe sigh.
Development Team
What is the meaning of Epic/DR committed?
Epic/Dr has a fixed version field decided.
What’s the most popular ‘debugging tool’ that we all secretly rely on every day?
Googling the error message and praying someone else had the same issue!
What is the timeline to react to P1/P2/P3 customer bugs?
P1/P2/P3 any customer bug, as soon as possible reaction is required
What is the timeline to update JIRA for P0/P1/P2 bugs.
whenever there is progress. Or update if there is no progress.
This robust component library delights developers with a steady stream of innovation, boasting 12 annual releases. What is the name of this library known for keeping the UI fresh and developers on their toes?
Droplets
Mention 3 points from Dev Outlook And QA Outlook those are required as part of grooming exercies.
Dev Outlook
Clarifications with PM, Dependencies Identification , T-Shirt estimate, Solution Overview Wiki , Design Doc, Design review with PM, UI, QA, UX, Doc, COGS Approval, UX Screens , Stories Creation , Code Completion , Developer Demo
QA Outlook
Share P0 tests with Dev , Story Creation , STS Review Internal (with QA), STS Review External (with PM, Dev, UI, Doc) , QA Track and Zephyr Upload , Upgrade Impact , Automation , Feature Demo , Cross-Team impact? Need to create DR's , Review Dev Unit tests , Review Dev Integration tests:
Who should be responsible for initiating the conversation on EBF
Engineering Manager
As an individual contributor how to decide the priority to work on a P2 customer bug OR a P1 release bug
Manager decides the priority
What is the main purpose to provide the Jira comment?
To communicate progress of epic/story to stakeholders.
In the realm of project management, when faced with another team's reluctance to accept a Delivery Requirement (DR) for a high-priority epic from the platform team, what is the advised protocol to ensure resolution, emphasizing persistent action until the matter is conclusively settled
Escalate the issue to a higher level continuously until closure is achieved
Grooming needs to be done at epic level or story level.
Epic level grooming
What is the criteria for giving signoff on a staging environment?
No more functional validation happens, only pod validation and ui pages loading. Run zdt tests and pipeline testing
This is what you call the feeling when your code works perfectly on local but fails spectacularly in production.
Developer’s Optimism
What are the things envolved in your daily activity need not be tracked in Jira? And when they become eligible to get tracked in Jira.
Upto you
In project management, if an Epic or DR has a fix version assigned but cannot be addressed due to shifting priorities or unforeseen challenges, what action is permissible to formally manage scope adjustments and project timelines?
Ask for Change Control Request (CCR)
How often we should do the grooming of epics in a release?
Whenever there is a requirement. Because sometimes we do have late entries of epics.
What is the timeline to deliver an ebf
As soon as possible
What is the process to close a customer bug
Same process like a normal bug
Whose responsiblity is to get update on Jira ticket, if there is no progress?
Everyone's responsibility. Anyone in the team can ask for the update if they find no progress on ticket.