EM Coverage for Sean Carroll from 12-July-2021 until 23-July-2021

Intent

This issue describes how broader group and team members are supporting an Engineering Manager in taking a meaningful break away from work. The intent is that the EM isn't required to "catchup" before and after taking a well-deserved vacation. It is also an opportunity for EMs and team members to interact with others outside their immediate group.

This issue is an extension of the Engineering Manager Backup process described in the handbook.

🤝 Responsibilities

Include creating release planning, weekly triage issues, responding to technical requests, team retros, team member 1:1s etc.

Priority	Theme	Context Link	Primary	Secondary
HIGH	Assess slippage and re-priortize at start of %14.2	14.1 board	@andr3
HIGH	Team member 1:1s (async weekly checkups)		@andr3
HIGH	@vyaklushin's maintainer MR	MR	@andr3
MEDIUM	Weekly Announcements	July 13 and July 20	@arturoherrero	@dsatcher
MEDIUM	Action triage reports		@nick.thomas
MEDIUM	Respond to technical questions for gitlab-com/create-stage/create-engineering-managers~12095097		@nick.thomas	@igor.drozdov
MEDIUM	Participate in the Team Retrospective		@andr3
MEDIUM	Bug Refinement bi-weekly	Document	@at.ramya

📖 References

Boards

• 14.1 Build Board
• 14.2 Planning Board
• 14.2 Planning Spreadsheet
• 14.2 Build Board

Here are some references for how our group generally works:

• Source Code direction page

✅ Issue Tasks

⭕ Opening Tasks

• Assign to yourself
• Title the issue EM Coverage for YOUR-NAME from DD-MON-YYYY until DD-MON-YYYY
• Add an issue comment for your ♻ Retrospective Thread
• Add any relevant references including direction pages, group handbook pages, etc
• Fill in the Responsibilities table with broad based responsibilities
• Fill in the specific Coverage Tasks with distinct items to complete and assignees
• Assign to anyone with a specific task or responsibility assigned to them
• Share this issue in your section, stage and group Slack channels
• Ensure you've assigned tasks via PTO Ninja
• Ensure your PTO Ninja auto-responder points team members to this issue
• Update your GitLab status to include a reference to this issue

❌ Closing Tasks

• Update your GitLab status to indicate you are back at work. Your Gmail and Slack statuses should automatically update.
• Consider thanking your backup for their support.
• Assign back to yourself and remove others
• Review any Retrospective Items and update this template