Q4 Goal - Reduce workload long term by identifying and working what accomplishes that

[consideRatio]

Goal description

In a metaphor, this goal is about taking the time to tie a shoe's loose shoelace in an marathon with a lot of distance to run still. Its not really about tieing shoelaces though, its about setting us up to perform well in the marathon and not running it distracted by a shoelace while risking an injury.

For @2i2c-org/engineering, this goal could be translated to:

To identify and work anything we believe can be addressed promptly that we believe will reduce our workload long term, as that sets us up to scale our impact by freeing up our own capacity.

For me its a stressor to be aware about a loose shoelace when running. I see this goal as providing us with the time and focus to tie our shoelaces, or even take a short detour to pick up a bicycle to ride instead.

Method

1. We work together to nominate work items that aligns with the goal.
2. The goal lead triages nominated work items and selects some work items to be assigned
3. The goal lead assigns selected work items to engineers during sprint meetings and when receiving a request for more work
4. Engineers works assigned work items, but also takes time to help others to bring their work to completion. Helping others can for example be to take time to discuss something or review of a PR for example. Helping others should be given a high priority.

Timeline

Before initial sprint

Erik nominates some initial items and selects a few to be assigned during the initial sprint.

Initial sprint (Started Oct 18)

• Slack channel #23q4-goal-reduce-workload created
• Goal introduction
• Initial work besides assigned work items
  1. @2i2c-org/engineering to go through their own GitHub issues in 2i2c-org/infrastructure, updating them for readability and closing anything we consider resolved or considered.
  2. @2i2c-org/engineering to identify issues among their own they believe aligns with the goal and labels them with nominated-to-be-resolved-during-q4-2023
• Erik to assign work items

Future sprints

The goal lead assigns work items.

Sprint issues

• Q4 Reduced workload goal - Oct 18 Sprint 1 tracking issue #3318
• Q4 Reduced workload goal - Nov 1 Sprint 2 tracking issue #3438
• Q4 Reduced workload goal - Nov 15 Sprint 3 tracking issue #3439
• Q4 Reduced workload goal - Nov 29 Sprint 4 tracking issue #3469

Team composition

All engineers.

Related

• Nominated work items
• Selected work items
• Notes from Q4 goals working session, Tue Oct 10 2023

[yuvipanda]

Think this one can be closed out now, @consideRatio?