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Distributed operations working group #12

Open jhibbets opened 6 years ago

jhibbets commented 6 years ago

Get the working group off the ground and set-up Are we represented with modified BAT framework for NC collaborative projects

jhibbets commented 6 years ago

@sagarmishra here is the brigade action team proposal for consideration

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9rnWF1P-KuUzsicUd1sKh4uw0BCLlrEa2zhUhg-3NUXURBw/viewform

ejaxon commented 6 years ago

My current feeling on this is that getting collaborations started is not our biggest challenge (although for new projects to come having a way to spin up resources on shared infrastructure is handy). The biggest challenge I see right now on the 2 projects I'm involved in is figuring out how to curate tasks and then engage members of the various brigades in doing them. We're still in the mode that stepping in to help requires knowing everything about the project. Changing that requires someone like me to get much, much better at thinking through how to divvy up work, onboard people, and keep them coordinated rather than just do stuff myself.

Don't know if we want to keep this task open, but not sure what to do with it at the moment since AWR and reentry are already set up and I'm not seeing a new cross-brigade collaboration spinning up in the next month or so.

SagarMishra commented 6 years ago

GoVote has the momentum to go cross-brigade by end of March if not sooner, but that largely depends on the "pull" the project gets from Code for Durham. On the GSO side of things, we're trying to set this up to be fairly distributed and not-bottlenecked (although we are still trying to break through some legacy bottlenecks from last year). I've included Eric in my project update emails.

ejaxon commented 6 years ago

Related to this, and definitely relevant to existing cross-brigade collaborations is the question of project roles. I ran across this product management resource from 18F the other day and it strikes me that it's probably a key role for projects beyond a certain scale (which cross-brigade projects will be if they're actually including more than a couple people). At some point, @SagarMishra, you identified some roles, including general project manager, tech project manager, etc. I wonder if we should be thinking of the non-tech project manager more as a product manager a la this guide.