Alpaca fun facts
Alpacas are part of the camel family.
[How to choose your first alpaca](https://mauialpaca.com/how-to-chose-your-first-alpaca):
* alpacas are herd animals and very socially oriented
* if you are interested in female alpacas, you should get three or more
* if you start with males, you should get two or more
* male and female alpacas cannot share the same fenceline because fighting between them will occur
* *Alpacas vs llamas*: alpacas are typically shy and polite, and are more comfortable in herds. Llamas are more confident and brave, and are solitary animals. Alpacas are smaller. Alpacas have shaggy hair that is used for fleece production. Llamas’ hair is coarser, and their wool is considered inferior.
* Alpacas have an exceptionally unique immune system. see: "Meet the alpacas that are helping researchers who study autism, Alzheimer’s and cancer" [Vanderbilt](https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2019/08/13/meet-the-alpacas-that-could-cure-autism-alzheimers-and-cancer).
Google: [alpaca ranch near me](https://www.google.com/search?q=alpaca+ranch+near+me)
Capacity
The percentages below reflect the amount of capacity the team members have to work towards sprint goals and priorities. Therefore, the sprint plan commitments should be reduced using these percentages. Note: includes time off, non-sprint commitments, and new team member ramp-up.
All Eng: 86.2%
All UX: 46.4%
All Team: 81.3%
(Total points VRO team can handle this sprint: 19.5)
Carryover from Previous Sprint
Are there any tickets that will carry over from previous sprint?
[x] Create demo materials for Incident Report workflow #3218
[x] Align and finalize all Incident Response documentation #3199
[ ] assess health checks- follow up for BGS app going down #3144
[x] Configure ArgoCD for db-init #3089
[x] Configure ArgoCD for dev-tools #3088
Sprint Plan
Sprint Goal:
Finish Implementing Argo on all partner services, overcommunicate the changes and demo the new deployment guide for lower environments.
Sprint Commitments in Priority Order (work on top priority first):
Improve the Partner Team Experience
[x] Top Use Cases: Deployment Requests - Prototype, Launch, and Comms #2795
Metrics
[x] Define mean time to resolve an incident (mean time to resolve, MTTR) #3191
Keep the Platform Running
[x] Update Secrel documentation #3022
Automate RDS DbInstance Initialization Steps #2004 (moved to Sprint C)
Partner Team Requests
[ ] Enhancement to help EP Merge metrics #3213
[ ] DLQ ticket #3238
Monitoring and Alerting
[ ] Custom Monitoring for Rabbit MQ and K8s termination grace period #2817
[ ] Monitoring Standards for VRO #2968 - this would be a stretch goal
Incidents
list here if any
Improve Deployment
[ ] Configure ArgoCD for Contention Classification (CC) #3092
[x] Configure ArgoCD for EP Merge (EE) #3093
[x] Configure ArgoCD for Max CFI (EE) #3094
[ ] ArgoCD final steps for partners #3176
On call
Who is On Call?
[x] On call Primary and Secondary #3246
Demo Plan
What could we demo?
list here if any ideas
Unplanned Work (these tickets were added post-Sprint Planning)
Add Dead Letter Queue and update existing queue configurations to use it #3238
Alpaca fun facts
Alpacas are part of the camel family. [How to choose your first alpaca](https://mauialpaca.com/how-to-chose-your-first-alpaca): * alpacas are herd animals and very socially oriented * if you are interested in female alpacas, you should get three or more * if you start with males, you should get two or more * male and female alpacas cannot share the same fenceline because fighting between them will occur * *Alpacas vs llamas*: alpacas are typically shy and polite, and are more comfortable in herds. Llamas are more confident and brave, and are solitary animals. Alpacas are smaller. Alpacas have shaggy hair that is used for fleece production. Llamas’ hair is coarser, and their wool is considered inferior.Capacity
The percentages below reflect the amount of capacity the team members have to work towards sprint goals and priorities. Therefore, the sprint plan commitments should be reduced using these percentages. Note: includes time off, non-sprint commitments, and new team member ramp-up.
All Eng: 86.2% All UX: 46.4% All Team: 81.3% (Total points VRO team can handle this sprint: 19.5)
Carryover from Previous Sprint
Are there any tickets that will carry over from previous sprint?
Sprint Plan
Sprint Goal:
Sprint Commitments in Priority Order (work on top priority first):
Improve the Partner Team Experience
Metrics
Keep the Platform Running
Automate RDS DbInstance Initialization Steps #2004 (moved to Sprint C)Partner Team Requests
Monitoring and Alerting
Incidents
Improve Deployment
On call
Who is On Call?
Demo Plan
What could we demo?
Unplanned Work (these tickets were added post-Sprint Planning)