Sprint I Goals

[dianagriffin]

Welcome to Sprint Ise-Shima!

Fun facts about this park

1. Ise-Shima National Park encompasses most of the Shima Peninsula in Mie Prefecture, Japan -- 55k hectares of forests, rivers, small farms and villages, while along the coast there are wild cliffs, small islands, fishing villages and bays of bobbing aquaculture rafts.
2. The area has an abundance of fish, shellfish and other foods, and was once called Miketsu Kuni, meaning "providers of food to the imperial court."
3. It is home to some of Japan's most ancient and revered Shinto shrines

Sprint Capacity Notes

• Thanksgiving! Many team members out Wednesday and/or Friday
• News from Diana

Sprint Data Review

• Started last sprint with 21 tickets
• Completed 11
• Did not complete 10 (Added 1 story after sprint started; did not start 4)
• Completion rate: 52%
• Average Velocity: 13 issues

Sprint I Goals

In priority order

Monitoring, observability, & reliability

• Monitor SecRel & Dependabot throughout the sprint to ensure deployability of VRO
  • Team to assign SecRel and Dependabot monitoring for the sprint
• Address integration test issues identified last sprint

  • 2227

Partner Team Support

• Ensure BIP Claims API microservice is usable for EE team's EP Merge App, including testability and reliability (See milestone)

  • 2242

• Enable EE team local development of the EP Merge App using the BGS Notes API microservice to add notes to a claim (See milestone

  • 2172

  • Stretch goals, possibly with EE team help:

    • 2190

    • 2191

• Support CC team production deployment when requested

Data Visibility

VRO Objective: By Oct 2023, VRO will have visibility to real time and historical contention history for all claims submitted. Sprint G Goal:

• Complete #2085

VRO Objective: By December 31, 2023, VRO will have visibility to all disability benefit form data submitted on VA.gov Sprint G Goal:

• 2199

• 2108

Planned for Sprint D Demo

• 2085 (in dev)

• progress on BGS (#2172)
• working BIP microservice?

[agile-josiah]

• Josiah

  • Working on fixing flakey tests for BIE Kafka will try some bitnami image magic to reduce the size so docker prune isn’t necessary anymore.
  • Meeting with Ponnia later today to discuss some onboarding stuff.

• Cheng

  • Working on getting the base64 keys setup for BIP, currently there is an issue with the grabbing the correct certs to generate keys 


• Tom

  • completed his pr for 2107 needs review
  • On standby to help out with bip stuff.


• Teja

  • working with Cheng to work on the certs.
  • Went through security vulnerabilities (from 2020?) to see if these are still potential vulnerabilities. Most files don’t exist in the repo or just used for test purposes.
  • Continuing to work on bip stuff

• Diana

  • Working on a transition doc for Paul
  • Use refinement session for an earlier stage convo following up from retro that Megan led to work on goals in the future, and what we may need to work on in the future.
  • Our backlog is very refined so no need to refine more at the moment.
  • Meeting with Zach next week for more context.

• Bianca

  • Working today and tomorrow to work on timelines and workshop work is updated so it is able to capture the work we’ve done this year to have a higher level narrative for our stakeholders.
  • Finishing a plan for research with partner teams for the end of year assessment.

• Erik

  • Following up with Cheng and Tea for BIP cert/base64 keys to catch up after being sick.

• Mason

  • Secrel - Is blocked, however, is not an issue with our team, it is an LHDI issue 2nd one this week. Isolated the issue to something that shouldn’t be a problem and is waiting for secrel to get back to him.
  • Track the downtime causing bug that happened on Tuesday, Nov 28th. Try to make progress to get a better understanding on what happened.
  • Thanks for PR reviews
  • New pr to update GitHub workflows because it was out of date with how we do 3rd party containers (redis and rabbitmq)