FY21-Q1 Plan:Portfolio Management / Plan:Certify Improve Group Productivity
Objective
Improve and maintain strong productivity from the Plan:Portfolio Management / Plan:Certify Backend team.
Key Results
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11 MR/Eng average by end of month => 88%
- 3 Month/quarterly rolling average
- Not adjusted for availability/leave/part-time
- Includes EM
- Starting from 6.1 rolling average in January
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MTTM under target (14) every month => 100%
CC @donaldcook
MR Rate Progress stagger chart
Jan | Feb | March | April | May | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan | 10.6* | 10 | 10 | ||
Feb | 9.6* | 10 | 12 | ||
March | 10.8* | 11 | 12 | ||
April | 10.8* | 12 |
👓 How to read the stagger chart
- Columns represent months for which forecasts are made
- Rows represent months in which forecasts are made
- starred* items are measured values
(for example, Jan's row was a measured result of 10.6 and forecasts of 10 and 10 for Feb and March)
Retrospection
Good
- We've become measurably better at iteration; see Requirements Management, Health Status on Epics, Spam detection.
- We picked up a lot of small fixes that have improved technical debt, documentation (see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/plan/-/issues/74).
- Throughput goal was ambitious and rolling average improvements are harder to achieve and more permanent when they are. 88% of a KR is considered optimal.
Bad
- MTTM goal may have been less than ambitious.
- Throughput growth may have stalled in April (adjusted for PTO/training/disruption, however it's still an improvement).
Try
- Next productivity OKR should be more ambitious, especially around MTTM (&546).
- We had an issue to track small fixes in this quarter. Perhaps the next one could focus on good examples of iteration.
Edited by John Hope