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Objective (IACV): Improve IACV by delivering Gitaly HA and Increase MR Rate to demonstrate strong efficiency => 85.2%

• Key Result: Gitaly + Praefect use strong consistency => 76%
• Key Result: Raise MR rate from 11 to 13 => 110%, July largest month yet
• Key Result: Geo: Achieve Disaster Recovery Viable Maturity => 69.5%

Objective (product): Improvements for better user Experience => 60.5%

• Key Result: Apply suggestions on improving MR Experience => 80%
• Key Result: File Tree SpeedIndex <1000 => 41%

Objective (team): Training and culture amp initiatives => 77.5%

• Key Result: Update training pages for EMs and ICs => 60%
• Key Result: Implement at least one Culture Amp action item - update career engineering matrix and enforce => 95%

Retrospection

Good

• MR Rate: July was our largest month yet at 14.4
• MR Rate: Several teams mentioned they feel they are hitting their stride
• Gitaly: We delivered as planned the MVC 🎉
• Geo: Great collaboration between PM and Eng in calibrating the key project of bringing DR to Viable. The Geo team made great progress in Q2.
• MR Experience: We made significant progress especially towards bigger MR use cases
• MR Experience: Even across teams (that are not even Dev)
• MR Experience: Good collaboration on bringing a topic up and then handling it in another team
• Speed: This was the actual target of the KR but we also improved a lot of numbers especially total load time and first paint across all web vitals
• Speed: We made a huge push towards more performance based work
• Speed: Long standing items were finally done
• Speed: New concepts for loading data + JS
• Speed: A lot of big initiatives were started or got a big focus (Fontawesome removal, image resizing, Page Specific CSS, Unused CSS,jQuery removal)
• Speed: New tooling to support it CSS Statistics + GDK Sitespeed runs Couple of improvements that have global impact
• Speed: Google has not flagged any of our routes as bad performance for desktop anymore since beginning of July
• Training: Achieved 50% of EMs taking DIB training in one month (1 day of full training)
• Training: Documented all onboarding training options EMs should review
• Matrix: Finished up all but one job family position
• Matrix: career competencies were tried within Dev sub-department

Bad

• MR Rate: Some teams are feeling they are starting to reach limits
• MR Rate: Less vacation may be the cause of some of the additional productivity which could lead to other bad results
• MR Experience: Unclear for quite some time what we are going to tackle
• MR Experience: Also unclear in those overlapping topics who is responsible of getting it scheduled
• MR Experience: Due to that delays in execution
• Speed: Too ambitious for one quarter and quite simply a lot of work
• Speed: Lot of huge Do it all before you see impact initiatives like the icons
• Speed: Our CSS is still huge and tackling that started only in July
• Speed: A lot of dependencies involved, like jQuery removal lead to no impact so far
• Speed: Hard to identify from early on the best changes for impact so some of the issues came in late
• Speed: Not enough bandwidth in teams to tackle the topics fully
• Training: Didn't get Feature Flag Training in place this quarter
• Matrix: We cut it close to the end of the quarter and didn't distribute/delegate fast enough.

Try

• MR Rate: Switch to Member MR Rate based on authorship.
• MR Experience: Clear DRI for all issues, who coordinates across teams
• MR Experience: Clear setting of Priority through labels and deadlines for everyone to show the importance to help in scheduling
• Speed: Keep pushing on performance topic in Q3
• Speed: Define clearer targets around web vitals
• Speed: Spread performance knowledge in teams
• Training: Continue to look at additional book clubs/training opportunities for managers
• Matrix: Start earlier in the quarter with distribution of work and plan.