FY21-Q4 Enablement Sub-department OKRs

Objective (IACV): Improve infrastructure operation efficiency => 66%

• Key Result: Move Helm Chart to Complete
• Key Result: Continuous improvement on search performance
• Key Result: Dogfood Geo failover in staging
• Key Result: Implement a system to allow developers to test against production-like data to reduce migration failures

Objective (Product): Improve scalability, performance, and productivity => 63%

• Key Result: Ship OpenShift MVP
• Key Result: Achieve Disaster Recovery Complete Maturity
• Key Result: Improve Advanced Search Usability by adopting new Search UI design

Objective (Team): Build great team => 68%

• Key Result: Add 2 maintainers
• Key Result: Achieve narrow MR rate 8
• Key Result: Maintain Say/Do ratio at 70 ~ 80% in %"13.6" , %"13.7" , and %"13.8"
• Key Result: Correlate PTO impacts to MR rate by overlaying PTO data to narrow MR rate chart

Retrospective

Good

• Good focus and progress in most product development KRs, such as Cloud Native (Helm, OpenShift), Search performance, DR (Complete maturity, failover dogfooding), and DB testing tool.
• Overall Say/Do ratio consistently reached 70~80%.
• It became clearer that Enablement MR rate is typically between 6 and 7 in the past year.
• Added another maintainer.

Bad

• MR rate missed the target (8) again primarily due to holiday season.
• UI related work was hit due to staffing challenge.

Try

• Case study of individual MRs and identify opportunities for improving iteration, as the deep dive didn't offer a lot of clues other than adding more maintainers.
• Add more maintainers, especially for the distribution projects.