Project Management and Meetings

Planning and tracking work

To plan and track our work we use:

• Data Engineering github project
• Data Updates github project
• Data Engineering channel in Microsoft Teams

When we plan to work on something that will require multiple issues, we use a project issue as a home base for discussions and tracking of those smaller tasks.

To coordinate cross-team work we use our github project, the edm-overview repo, and any other repos other teams may be working in.

Documents

We use the DE Planning notebook to document goals and initiatives for each quarter of the year.

We use the DE Data Catalog spreadsheet to document the release schedule for our data products.

We use these to align plans across the division: GDE Roadmap, ITD Projects Portfolio, ITD Project Intake.

Meetings

Our periodic meetings are:

• standup on Monday/Wednesday/Friday
• biweekly sprint planning and retro
  • on the first and last days a sprint
  • meeting notes
• biweekly roadmapping
  • the first Wednesday of a sprint
  • meeting notes
• quarterly retro & planning
  • the week before the last sprint of a quarter
  • meeting notes