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    Growth Plan
    W42-W46 Focus
    🟢 Attend to research methodology Continue working with Will and Rayana to identify research opportunities, and review existing knowledge, proposed research and methodology in preparation for a study. Finished UX Research handbook page, sharing research results with team Next: Share learnings from each Research phase
    🟢 Actively track UX Debt / UI polish Identify and influence the prioritization to fix when it occurs to reduce average days to close (UX KPI) Added tracking to Milestone process Next: Track on the quarter level
    🟡 Increase knowledge of the Release space and continuously share knowledge with peers Consume existing knowledge about the Release area (uxr insights, competitor evaluation, opportunity canvas) Ongoing: Release Overview video
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    Q3 Progress

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    Q4 Progress

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    Focus and Actions
    Health 🟢🟡:red_circle:
    Results Producing high quality work. Providing practical solutions to problems and finding ways to make improvements. Taking the lead and showing ownership of issues. Demonstrating a bias for action.
    🟢 Attend to research methodology Continue working with Will and Rayana to identify research opportunities, and review existing knowledge, proposed research and methodology in preparation for a study.
    🟢 JTBDs for Release Continue working on JTBDs for Release. Define review cadence every ML
    Technical Competence Demonstrating a high level of domain, functional and/or technical capability.
    🟡 Actively track UX Debt / UI polish Identify and influence the prioritization to fix when it occurs to reduce average days to close (UX KPI)
    🟡Increase knowledge of the Release space and continuously share knowledge with peers Consume existing knowledge about the Release area (uxr insights, competitor evaluation, opportunity canvas)
    🟡 Review all user-facing Release MRs Review all user-facing MRs in a milestone for the Release group, following the MR Reviews Guidelines.
    🟡 Contribute to UX MR reviews and incorporate Pajamas into Release work Starting in FY22-Q4, actively contribute to UX MR reviews and identify opportunities to incorporate Pajamas into your group milestone releases. Embed pajamas tasks on milestone planning. Bring Release design process closer to Pajamas and produce overlapping outputs.
    Efficiency Prioritizing work and managing time well.
    🟢 Prioritize what's most important for Product Designers Find a Modern Health coach and schedule a call to talk about priority management and decision making
    Iteration Experimenting with innovative ideas and approaches / being open to new ways of doing things.
    🟡 Practice iterative design through the Product Development Flow Work with the release team to get 1-2 months ahead of development, so that the Build track always has well-validated product opportunities ready to start:
    🟡 Define your milestone workflow When to start planning, when to wrap up, what to look out for.
    🟡 Achieve consistent milestone progress Planning, estimation and execution for group design work.
    🟡 Small, consistent, breathable iterations Redefine my own expectations for “core work” output and divide time accordingly to all my responsibilities as Senior Product Designer
    14.5 Milestone
    14.5 Oct 18 → Nov 17
    W42 18 – 22 W43 25 – 29 W44 01 - 05 W45 08 - 12 :large_blue_circle: W46 15 - 19
    Milestone Workflow
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    • W-1
      • Respond to engineering issues that involve UX (already added to to planning if weight more than 1)
      • Work on design issues
      • Work on JTBD & strategy issues
      • MR Radar
    • W-2
      • Draft UX issues for next milestones
      • Review UX Debt & UI Polish issues
      • Work on design issues
      • Work on JTBD & strategy issues
      • MR Radar
    • :large_blue_circle: W-3
      • Work on design issues
      • Finish UX issues for next milestones
      • MR Radar
    • W-4
      • Work on design issues
      • MR Radar

    W46

    Design Work

    1. :ping_pong: Group-level UI for Protected Environments
    2. :ping_pong: Show manual deploy jobs on deployments page and let users run them
    3. :satellite_orbital:️ MR Radar

    Design Work

    1. :palm_tree: Create coverage issues -- gitlab-org/gitlab-design#1804 (closed) and gitlab-org/gitlab-design#1805 (closed)
    2. The job name is not readable from the CI environment deployments list
    3. Implement show more capability in feature flag lists
    4. :satellite_orbital:️ MR Radar

    Design Work Wrap

    1. :sparkles: UX CI/CD meeting
    2. :ping_pong: Group-level UI for Protected Environments
    3. :ping_pong: Show manual deploy jobs on deployments page and let users run them
    4. :ping_pong: Release Overview -- see WIP
    5. :cyclone: Async catch up

    Knowledge Sharing

    1. :rocket: Release Overview
    2. :cyclone: Tables Initiative
    3. :satellite_orbital:️ MR Radar

    Trainings & Feedbacks

    1. :notebook: Psychological Safety Training
    2. :notebook: Reliability Training
    3. :satellite_orbital:️ MR Radar
    4. Learnings: Environments Survey
    5. Learnings: Designer Interviewing
    6. Learnings: Design Management for large issues & epics

    W45

    1. Lots of catching up!

    W44

    1. Design interview
    2. Security training
    3. UX Coverage
    4. Breakdown for Make deployment & status information easier to read on environments page
    1. Finish breakdown for Make deployment & status information easier to read on environments page
    2. :satellite_orbital:️ MR Radar
    3. Prepare for PM 1:1
    4. Interview scorecard
    1. Prepare for UX CI/CD Meeting
    2. UX CI/CD Meeting & Rayana 1:1
    3. Tracking issue: Talent Assessment FY22 - CI/CD
    4. Q4 OKRs - UX Debt review
    5. Design issues label review
    6. Delete stopped environments automatically

    Next/Stretch

    1. :ping_pong: Inbox Review
    2. CultureAmp tasks review
    Additional Stretch items
    1. Q4 Planning and themes based on CultureAmp feedback
    2. Fix link to Release Evidence direction page
    3. List relevant competitor evaluations on Direction page
    4. Improve instructions for Environments on data models MR
    5. Add GitLab Speed Search to Handbook + integrate on GitLab/Alfred repo
    6. Record video for "Coding as a Designer @ GitLab"

    W43

    1. UX Skill Matrix
    2. Wrap UX Research page MR
    3. :ping_pong: Iterate on Make deployment & status information easier to read on environments page
    4. Create/Edit Release: make sure (optional) is applied to forms correctly

    W42

    How was my week? :rainbow:

    1. Add severity labels to CI/CD UX issues
    2. Wrap Usability Testing for Environments Page
    3. Explore limitations of current table component - Finish auditing table / list components
    4. :ping_pong: Group-level UI for Protected Environments
    5. Contributed to 14.4 UX Retrospective and Release Retrospective
    41 of 53 checklist items completed · Edited by Daniel Fosco

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