Nailing Q3 Together - Process Document

Objective

Taking control of what we focus on, how we deliver, and bringing overall transparency to the organization

What needs to be done

(1) Defining “what” we want/should be working on?

We’re looking at 2 broad categories of items

  1. Core - This includes common items on the platform, design, implementation, and process level

  2. Product Specific

In this step, we focus on identifying, refining, aligning each other on the specifics. Ideally, all these items would map to our Mission OKRs.

Please find the OKRs here for reference.

Urban Mission

  1. Punjab Account

  2. Uttarakhand Account

  3. e-Chhawani Account

  4. Odisha Account

Public Finance Management Mission?

Sanitation Mission

Please also see
- The respective Product Completion roadmaps that you all created
- Items for your products in the Product Roadmap

 

Note: We will also look at streamlining Engineering <> Product <> Implementation/Partnership so that we can keep the firebox items in check (items coming up all of a sudden because of a critical issue in a particular account) and we can ensure what we’re building is going to be used #Adoption

 

(2) How do we prioritize to cut down and focus on the most important “whats”?

@Jojo Mehra will share more details on this

 

(3) How much can we work on?

Estimating Efforts Required

  • Small (S): 1-2 weeks

    • Doable within one product (and/or one engineering sprint) 1-2 weeks

  • Medium (M): 2-3 weeks

  • Large (L): 1 month

Estimating Bandwidth

  • How much can we individually take per month?

This will require us to have a rough idea about where our time is consumed on a regular basis.

 

(4) How can we share our focus and progress with others?

Once we have alignment on what we will be working on, we will start tracking it on JIRA.

All the reporting will happen through Jira dashboards. This is going to be a tough road, but we need this for ourselves more than anyone else! #JIRATheHellOut

Next Steps

Date

Sr.

Agenda and Outputs

Open Questions/ Comments

Participants

Date

Sr.

Agenda and Outputs

Open Questions/ Comments

Participants

Sep 6, 2021

1

(1) Defining “what” we want/should be working on?

Group Session Huddle quick and breakout into groups to identify core items
Independent Product-specific items in Confluence pages
PT
W&S
TL
mCollect
Fire NOC
HRMS
WhatsApp
mGramSeva

Output - Confluence Document

 

Product

Sep 7, 2021

2

Group Session Resolve open questions, agree on core and product specific items

Output - Confluence Document

 

Product

Sep 7, 2021

3

Group Session Product <> Program

Output - Confluence Document

 

Product <> Program

Sep 8, 2021

4

Group SessionProduct <> Engineering

Output - Confluence Document

 

Product <> Engineering and Platform

Sep 8, 2021

5

How do we prioritize to cut down and focus on the most important “whats”?

How much can we work on?

Group Session Prioritization Huddle
Independent Bandwidth estimation and nailing “what”

Output - Confluence Document

 

Product

Sep 9, 2021

6

Jira Alignment

Product team moves all work items, engg and non-engg, on JIRA

Output - Jira Backlog

 

Product

Sep 14, 2021

7

Jira Progress Roadmaps and Dashboards

Output - Jira Roadmap and Product Page

 

Product

Sep 16, 2021

8

We’re in alignment on what to do, how to do it, how to present progress and blockers

 

Product <> Platform/ Engineering <> Program