FY21-Q1 Pajamas OKR: Design trainee maintainer => 100%
This issue is a proposal to an upcoming Pajamas OKR:
Grow the Pajamas expertise and maintainer base by making more designers trainee maintainer.
Why
- Close the gap: We are currently 2 maintainers and 1 traintainer for 30+ designers.
- Increase the number of pajamas trainees and eventually maintainers.
- Bring more expertise to Pajamas from designers in different stage groups.
- Identify expertise within our design team.
- Identify improvements to the traintainer process.
How
- Set-up an OKR for the UX Department/Pajamas to assign traintainers for Pajamas.
- Identify product designers to participate in this pilot.
- Improve the current process by defining metrics to the traintainers.
- Define mentoring/check-in process between traintainer and mantainers.
- Allocate time: help bridge the gap between maintainers and managers in regards to maintainer responsibilities.
Key Results
- Increase the number of traintainers from 1 to 3: @rayana, @jeldergl, @jj-ramirez => 100% https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/projects/#design.gitlab.com_trainee-maintainers_UX
- Improve the traintainer process page in the handbook. => 100% 4 MRs merged to improve the process (see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/commits/master/source/handbook/engineering/ux/pajamas-design-system/design-review/index.html.md) and one more in flight gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com!45887 (diffs)
- Create a dashboard on Periscope to track designers, design traintainers, and design maintainer counts. => 100% dashboard can now be found here: https://app.periscopedata.com/app/gitlab/658466/Pajamas-Design-System
Edited by Taurie Davis