💍 Coverage for Gina Doyle from 2025-10-06 until 2025-10-24

Intent

This issue describes how team members help each other take meaningful time away from work. The goal is for those taking PTO to not feel like they need to "catch up" before and after taking a well-deserved vacation.

🤝 Responsibilities

Priority Responsibility Link Primary backup DRI Secondary backup DRI
High Ensure healthy backlog of projects for Mark

@mvanremmerden

High

Host the bi-weekly Create Design Sync (October 9th & 23rd)

  • Ask a designer from the team to present - usually tied to the highest business priorities
  • Create an issue in our Create Design Critique project with the design critique template and tag the designer to add context
  • Prep the agenda before the meeting
  • Follow the steps in the issue template for post-meeting actions

@mle - hosting the October 23rd session

@alyssatrinh - hosting the October 9th session

@munthank (in case anyone is unexpectedly OOO)

Medium

Create Design Team Support

  • 1:1s as needed with my direct reports
  • Design reviews as needed with my direct reports
  • Direct reports will share 1:1 agendas directly with Marcel (direct reports choose if you want your current 1:1 docs to be shared or new ones)

@mvanremmerden

Medium

Weekly Create Leadership + Business Review Support

  • Join weekly meetings or contribute to the agendas async as needed
  • Answer questions at the business review meetings as needed

@mvanremmerden

🚙 Parked tasks

List the larger responsibilities that aren't moving forward until I return, such as creating a prototype or planning/conducting research.

  1. UX Quality Enhancement burn down plan for Code Review

✅ Issue Tasks

⭕ Opening Tasks

  • Assign to yourself
  • Title the issue Coverage for YOUR-NAME from XXXX-XX-XX until XXXX-XX-XX
  • Add any relevant references including direction pages, handbook pages, and so on
  • Fill in the Responsibilities table with broad based responsibilities
  • Fill in the specific Coverage Tasks with distinct items to complete and assignees
  • Assign this issue to anyone with a specific task or responsibility assigned to them
  • Share this issue in your section, stage, and group Slack channels, and with your manager
  • Link to this issue in the "Role Description" section of the Time Off by Deel coverage for your out of office dates
  • Update your GitLab.com status with your out of office dates
  • (Optional) Add an issue comment for your retrospective titled: :recycle: Retrospective Thread

❌ Closing Tasks

  • Assign back to yourself and remove others
  • Review any Retrospective items with your counterparts and manager
Edited by Gina Doyle