Transition Manage/Optimize assignment to Fiona Neill
- Stage/group being transitioned: devopsmanage groupoptimize
- Current technical writer: @msedlakjakubowski
- Incoming technical writer: @fneill
- Reassignment milestone: 14.4
TW realignment sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zsTwv_AVFUdNk2Zmq63Qg8t5uaxU5WRZWfBI6cD5LfE/edit#gid=0
Tasks for current technical writer
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Invite the incoming TW to the stage and group Slack channels. - Channel list:
s_manage
,g_manage_optimize
,manage-social
- Channel list:
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Post in Slack about the changeover. Communicate the timeline and how MRs will be handled. -
Reach out to the Product Manager and Engineering Manager to communicate the change. -
PM: @ogolowinski
(interim) -
EM: @djensen @wortschi
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Be sure to provide any additional useful information about working with the group, including how they prefer to communicate in issues/MRs regarding reviews.
Tasks for EMs and PMs
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Add the incoming TW to team meetings and any group aliases. - Meetings and groups:
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async-retrospectives. -
manage and manage/general-discussion. -
Optimize Weekly call -
The Manage Social standup
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- Meetings and groups:
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Remove the outgoing TW from team meetings and any group aliases.
Marcin: I'd still like to come to the next Weekly on 2021-09-20, so please don't kick me out yet😅 -
Determine the resources needed by the incoming TW to learn the stage / group features, similar to an engineer's onboarding, see Notes from Marcin
Tasks for incoming technical writer
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Set up coffee chats with: -
Group Product Manager (see above) -
Group Engineering Manager (see above) -
Some group frontend and backend team members -
UX designer associated with the group: @npost
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- In the
www-gitlab-com
repository, update:-
data/stages.yml
, with your new assignment.
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- In the
gitlab
repository, update as needed: -
Read the product documentation associated with your group (as identified by the group attribute in documentation pages' metadata).
Final task
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When the transition is effectively complete, before closing this issue, the current (not incoming) technical writer should inform their manager to update BambooHR with the new group assignment.
Notes from Marcin
- TLDR: Optimize measures customer productivity with GitLab
- Possible key future feature of GitLab. Part of Value Stream Management Consortium
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Visit the group handbook section -
Read the Documentation and Direction pages linked in the handbook section for each group. - Go to
https://about.gitlab.com/features/#group
and follow the Documentation links. - Optimize adds docs in separate issues/MRs from the code, as the docs need both Backend and Frontend work. See: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/dev/manage/#documentation
- I've collected some documentation issues in &6245 (closed)
- This doc issue needs an IA solution: gitlab#334529 (closed). I wasn't able to decide how to tackle it, happy to pair up later.
- Go to
- Key docs:
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@djensen
drafts a majority of groupoptimize docs
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- Monthly: watch s_manage for the return of the monthly Kickoff video
Tasks for technical writing manager
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Update BambooHR with the new group assignments. BambooHR automatically updates the group assignments in data/team_members/person
.
Related to #425 (closed).
Edited by Fiona Neill