2020-07-20 Project Management Meeting

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Last updated: Jul 20, 2020 by Jennifer Antilla
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Date

Attendees

  • Jennifer Antilla
  • Herbert Yiga
  • Tendo Kiiza Martyn
  • Grace nakiguli
  • Juliet wamalwa
  • Grace potma
  • Moses Mutesasira
  • Cliff
  • sharrif Magembe
  • Dan Kayiwa
  • Tayebwa Noah

Goals

  • Keep the pulse of current projects and releases
  • Plan for upcoming projects

Discussion items

ItemWhoNotes
GSOC

Suthagar Kailayapathy Moses Mutesasira

Coding phase 2 is still ongoing. Everything is moving on smoothly.
Platform and reference Release updatesJennifer Antilla
  • Cliff has been selected to be the platform release manager. 
  • Nathan and Kaweesi  are the release manager mentors.
  • TAC to come up with the roadmap for the release for further guidance on the way forward.
OCL for OpenMRS updates

Grace Potma


  • There is a sudden reduction in development resources. A plan is underway to see that there can be effective handover from Lincoln.
  • MSF has coordinated with Thought works to provide additional development resources
  • There is a dependency on OCL and CIEL processes that potentially slow down this work 
  • Grace is discussing ways to address this with Burke, Andy, and Jon Payne
  • Long term solutions might/can be included in proposal to be submitted to DS on Friday
GSOD updates

Herbert Yiga, grace nakiguli

Steps to follow in the selection of projects (Herbert is GSOC Admin, with Grace N; support from Daniel & Jen)

  • Creating a poll on choosing the best project by the community
  • calling out  those who will make the review
  • Creating a scoring framework to guide the reviews
  • creating a spreadsheet for the mentors to fill in their details of the results
Review SOP for posting notes and videos after meetings

Grace Potma


  • Each committee to make sure that the notes are transferred to the wiki page.
  • The PM team, however is to guide all squads on how to document the notes.
  • PM team to come up with a guideline on how to document the calls and also to document what this team is going to practice.
Feedback on suggestion to post Release Dates, Sprint Dates in a live Confluence Calendar

Grace Potma


  • A release calendar has been designed to highlight upcoming events and also to help the squads follow the timelines. 
  • It will also help the community to always be aware of upcoming events.
  • It will be rolled out and then evaluated in two or three months.
Proposal to try 30 min meetings with PM Squad by @grace

Grace Potma

This is intended to give people more time for other openmrs activities. We shall see how things move in a couple of weeks and come back to it later.

Proposal for PM Squad team survey: to learn about individuals’ interests and goalsJennifer Antilla

A survey is underway to collect information about the PM squad to know individual interests, challenges and how they can be helped to perform better.
 A link is attached
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWKI4pK8MOhLWgLow7AKPLdc4enYSZZrKWW2V-4bmQyTKk9Q/viewform

Recording

Action items