All-PM daily standup (Tue - Fri)

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Last updated: Jul 16, 2020 by Brad Peters
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Daily check-in across all PMs who can attend.

Share a brief update:

  • What did you get done since last time?

  • What are you doing now or next?

  • What is blocking you, if anything?

--Please thread your updates to the daily Slackbot standup message in the #fn_pm channel.

Thursday, July 16, 2020

no reports

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Stephen Roger

Y:

  • design/prod collab on UI enhancements and future features

  • backlog and bug grooming/triage

  • future feature/roadmap

T:

  • Start FAQ doc for Outreach/Implementation team

  • Organize & distro notes from Outreach/Implementation & Product team sync meeting please DM me with any requests for content to be included

  • Investigate priority for Localization &  enhanced support for top internet browsers

  • backlog and bug grooming/triage (cont'd)

  • future feature/roadmap (cont'd)

B- None (edited)

Jennifer Schnidman 

  • Provided QA/Guam a beta build w bug fixes for continued testing

  • Triaged bugs, confirmed Thurs release scope

  • Confirmed Puerto Rico launch timeline

  • Provided guidance on localization and launch planning to Hawaii implementation team

  • Confirm GPS rollout timelines for Guam

  • Finalize Thursday's production release communication plan w @xian

  • Draft implementation tracking spreadsheet

  • Update GPS roadmap in Prodpad to reflect lingering MVP1 discovery needs

  • Discovery/validation for Zendesk integration

  • Record updated e2e GPS/Places product demo, prepare for Friday sprint review

  • Not quite blocked by implementation team but still chasing down Guam rollout details (edited)

Tuesday, July 14

Jennifer Schnidman

  • GPS/Places passing e2e testing!

  • Provided Guam an updated alpha build w bug fixes for their own e2e testing and demo to HA

  • Sprint planning (will share priorities in a separate post)

  • Shared initial draft of Zendesk integration requirements for feedback

  • Record updated e2e GPS/Places product demo

  • Confirm GPS rollout timelines for Guam, Puerto Rico and Hawaii

  • Triage bugs, finalize Thursday's production release plan

  • Blocked by implementation team - still chasing down rollout dates for 3 customers

Monday, July 13

no report

Friday, July 10, 2020

Jennifer Schnidman

  • Coordinated new alpha build for Guam testing (see #mobile-gps-releases for more info)

  • Coordinated plan for production release next week (will include location accuracy and exposure notification improvements, Spanish (PR), and publicly add Guam to list of Health Departments)

  • Met with BT team to ensure GPS and BT release plans are coordinated

  • Triaged bugs

  • Lead GPS/Places retro and grooming

  • Sprint review - record updated e2e demo :hand_with_index_and_middle_fingers_crossed::skin-tone-3:

  • Input Haiti and Guam feedback on expected features on Prodpad

  • Share draft requirements for Zendesk integration

cactus: none 

Stephen Roger

PTO today

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Stephen Roger

  • Y:

    • Planning and meeting for HI implementation

    • Working on HA implementation processes & optimization

    • Design updates for Places

  • T:

    • Continuing first two bullets above

    • HA account creation flows/designs/specs

  • B: None

    • NOTE: will be offline for parts of today and some of tomorrow. (edited)

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Alpita

  • Y:

    • Started working on adding support for missing languages in dayjs needed by Engineering

    • Translators onboarding

  • T:

    • In progress- (This one is more engineering than PM) adding missing language support to dayjs; getting missing translations for ht and getting es_pr translations reviewed. won't add tagalog/fil support as it already exists. Will create a PR on dayjs once I have everything needed.

    • Following up on Micronesia/Guam for more clarity/ visibility on the timeline

  • B:

    • Need more clarity on the Micronesian languages related roll-out. There's several certified translators who have registered and starting to work on it.

 Jennifer Schnidman: @Alpita - I've confirmed that Jeff Kushmerek is the person to connect w regarding the Micronesia implementation

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Bob Mallon 

  • Y:

    • Sprint Kickoff

    • Accepting Stories from Last Sprint

    • 2 Phone Testing for Exposure Notifications

  • T:

    • Exposure config continued exploration

    • More 2 Phone Testing

    • QA Meeting / Kickoff

  • B:

    • Issues with Server config blocking 2-phone test, blocker on getting Testflight build to HAs

    • Affected User flow bug

Monday, July 6, 2020

Spectra: @channel: As shared in the product weekly update meeting, we now have ProdPad as a way of gathering feedback from across the org:

Visit this link and share away: http://bit.ly/pathcheck-product-feedback

From any channel in which @ProdPad is a member (feel free to invite), you can share feedback by using the command "/ProdPad feedback [Your Feedback Here] to submit"

All feedback that's shared is published in a public channel: #product-prodpad-feedback (where you can emoji, plus one, squeal with delight, and "hell yes" to your heart's content)

Go ahead and give it a try - REAL feedback, please. (Or we'll be inundated with 'test' notifications :sweat_smile:) (edited)

xian: is there a specific hashtag that turns a slack message into Prodpad feedback? or do you cc @ProdPad and add any hashtag? (I'm not sure of the workflow, thanks!

C Todd Lombardo: /Prodpad feedback  then add whatever feedback here

Spectra: Thanks @xian @C Todd Lombardo. I crafted the ProdPad instructions message with aim to fill in details later (to avoid sending my whole message as feedback) then of course got squirrel distracted and forgot. To everyone, instructions for how to share feedback with ProdPad directly from slack, have been updated via the original message.

In essence: "/prodpad feedback [your message here]"

Bob Mallon

  • Y / Thursday:

    • Sprint Review and Retro

    • Test verification server

    • Story acceptance/rejection

    • Planning meetings for next sprint

  • T:

    • Sprint kickoff & other weekly meetings

    • Further work on exposure Config settings

    • Meet with support team

    • Setup 2 phone test for ENs

  • B:

    • Bug on verification code entry

 

Brian Ng

  • Y / Thursday:

    • finalize uni research plan

    • interviewee recruitment

    • continued uni secondary research

  • T:

    • weekly meetings (discovery sprint, product updates)

    • conduct interviews

  • B:

    • I haven’t seen an update on scheduling interviews (but assume it’s happening?), but currently no interviews set up on my calendar today or tmr cc @Brad Peters @Spectra lmk if I can help out 

Alpita 

  • Several developments in localization and translation:

    • We started working on new languages for some new regions- Madagascar and Micronesia

  • Done:

    • Created localization projects for Malagasy (Madagascar), Chuukese, Palauan, Pohnpeian and Yapese (All these for Micronesia/ Guam)

    • Added certified translators to these projects.

  • Doing:

    • Orienting the newly added translators and helping them where needed

    • Some of the Micronesian languages are custom languages with i18n codes that are not commonly used, checking to see how integration works with these languages

  • Blocked:

    • Not really blocked, but I need more insight into the roadmap or timeline for any Micronesia/Micronesia-Guam related rollout so that I can plan better and follow up and work accordingly with the translators in time for any release.

    • This is the general overview of the various languages and their status of completion (Slovak, Tagalog, Haitian Creole are a 100% done and Spanish (PR), Russian, Polish and Italian have good coverage)

Friday, July 3, 2020

Day off for US Independence Day celebration

Thursday, July 2, 2020

Bob Mallon

  • Y:

    • Validating latest Testflight build

    • Minnesota discussions for MVP pilot

    • Chasing down notification scoring settings

    • Verification server came online!

  • T:

    • Test verification server

    • Sprint review and retro

    • Keep testing build, hopefully get E2E notifications working

  • B:

    • New wrinkles on logic to trigger ENs

    • Bugs in the build

Stephen Roger

  • Y:

    • Previous sprint cleanup

    • Soliciting needs & capturing specs for future Places work

    • University needs sync and brainstorming with Brian

  • T:

    • Creating & grooming tickets for next sprint

    • CT persona and needs research

    • CT tool investigation very lightweight competitive analysis

  • B: none

Brian Ng

  • Y:

    • game plan and work on discovery planning tasks (i.e. research plan, recruitment survey)

    • sync w Stephen re: potential uni impact on SPlaces

    • uni strategy internal mtg

  • T:

    • send out interviewee recruitment survey

    • complete research plan / interview guide

    • sync w/ @Spectra on Airtable solution to facilitate user interviews

  • B:

    • not a blocker, but I’d like to talk to “friendlies” to help inform research plan/interview guide, specifically looking to have an informal chat today with anyone who is currently living (ideally) or working/studying on a university campus to get a head start. I know we have a bunch of students in the Slack community but I don’t know best place to reach out to them. NOTE: this is separate from a larger blast Carolyn (lead researcher) plans to send out today to wider Slack community to solicit interviewees. Basically, I don’t want to confuse people with two requests and want a back channel of sorts to get 1 or 2 informal convos. any ideas?

xian: please invite me into any airtables you set up!

Brian Ng  @xian I’m actually not invited to it yet cc @Spectra

Emma Heizer: @Gretchen Anderson would any of your students be open to talking with Brian today? Are they currently on or off campus?

Spectra  @xian @Brad Peters is the prodops person (slated to be) assigned to that squad, following prodops sync. I'm free today, so think that should happen sooner rather than later.

xian sounds good to me! what does that entail (next steps)?

 John Kane 

I was out sick yesterday.  Getting myself back up to speed today.

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Stephen Roger

  • Y:

    • Gathering info on needs for Places as a product/client configuration admin tool

    • Lots of ticket cleanup from previous sprints

  • T:

    • Finishing ticket cleanup from previous sprints

    • Pre grooming backlog grooming

    • Proposed Design/QA process writeup

  • B: None

 

Brian Ng

  • Y:

    • work thru Uni MVP + Product Strategy doc

    • map out week 1 discovery - planning tasks

    • continue working thru research plan

    • begin opportunity solution tree

  • T:

    • finalize opportunity solution tree

    • support team to complete week 1 discovery planing tasks (i.e. send out interviewee recruitment survey, complete research plan, complete interview guide, complete journey map)

  • B:

    • @Jennifer Schnidman I know there was originally a “news” or “resources” section in the app and it was pulled out; I don’t see anything of the nature on the fast follow list; I’m working thru what that could look like for a Uni and am wondering if y’all have put any thought into that yet?

    • @Stephen two things we’ve prioritized as “must have” in the Uni MVP (linked above) are client config-oriented specifically Equip PathCheck to setup a university as a health authority and Limit a private institution's governance based on their geographic domain. the latter which I believe you’ve seen the PRD for. MVP reqs are still a moving target, but I feel fairly confident we will want to work thru those e.g. Vassar and TCU have expressed a desire to set themselves up as a health department so as to not rely on their overwhelmed local HD and have more control and responsiveness wrt testing, contract tracing, isolation, etc. maybe we should sync on this one sometime today

 

Bob Mallon

  • Y:

    • Further refinement of Trello cards included in MVP release for HAs

    • Discussion on design priorities for MVP

    • Met with Places team for future use as GAEN configuration Admin tool

    • News that ENs are working between app and server!

  • T:

    • GAEN server config for HA MVP

    • Test build with ENs

    • Finalize string config for HA MVP

  • B:

    • None

 

Jennifer Schnidman

  • @Brian Ng You're correct that News/Resources is not on the fast follow list - I believe it was being considered as part of the "coldstart" discovery theme, but I haven't been involved in those discovery efforts

  • Y:

    • GPS dev team made major headway in improving iOS location tracking accuracy, new staging build has been provided to Guam for further testing :tada:

  • T:

    • Confirm language switching bug fixed, coordinate with @Alpita and @Diarmid Mackenzie on any remaining localization copy issues to prepare for GPS hotfix release to app stores. This release will re-introduce Kreyol and Spanish (and fix a minor copy issue)

    • Confirm exposure notification screens are wired up and ready for testing

    • Backlog grooming and prep for next week's sprint

    • Alternate flows for consent screens

  • B: none

    • FYI that I am going to be offline starting tomorrow afternoon through next Wednesday morning. This week's GPS/Places sprint wraps up tomorrow, and the team will be prepared to start next week's sprint on Monday as usual.

 

Stephen Roger:

  • @Brian Ng - I'll review the doc you posted and grab time with you later today.