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Eng lead meeting jan 28 2020

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JNb_CvmDj0iIFNYOqbcBwerfiEYplzHs5_zNYU822LA/edit#gid=0

1) Career ladders finalized

-ACTION ITEMS: -Leads to rank their reports have this ready BEFORE next weekly Eng meeting -present ladders at the next weekly engineer meeting -Leads to have 1:1 with direct report to discuss rank individually

2) Story points vs sprint completion -what to do if someone finishes tasks early? pulling off next tasks, learning more competencies, find a new project you are excited about and do it, help someone else out? -risk of gamifying system - we have checks & balance to check we are scoring points accurately - Leads and Ben reviewing quality of points

ACTION ITEMS: -Sprint completion to start at next Wednesday's sprint -Offset sprint cycle model to manage resources (QA, review, etc)

  • E-Commerce & Campaign will have one week sprint next week - someone tell Aidana
  • Growth, Lead Gen, Integreat will kick off new 2 week sprint
  • Announce this new model at next Onion

3) Eng Interns

  • Train them for 2 weeks on Rails - don't give them tasks
  • Currently all on Growth team, with potential to hire

4) what about Tasks that are done in 2 sprints, cloning workflow?

  • adjust points if started in previous sprint, prorate points in new sprint
  • example: 8 point sprint - 6 in old, 2 in new