Draft Research Plan for determining what we need to know for including Mobile App in Collab Cycle

shiragoodman commented 4 months ago

User Story

As a Governance team member supporting the Collaboration Cycle, I want to put together a Research Plan for determining what we need to know for including mobile app in the Collab Cycle so that my team can document and implement a plan for getting our process, standards and knowledge updated.

Assignee: @erinrwhite Peer Reviewer:~~@allison0034~~ @briandeconinck

Description

In order for Governance team to introduce the mobile app into the Collaboration Cycle, we must first determine what we don't know. The goal of this ticket is to draft a Research Plan in order to determine what we need to know for including mobile app in the Collab Cycle. For a full list of what the scope of our research plan must cover, please see the Problem Statement, Hypothesis, and Definition of Done in the initiative.

Please refer to the Getting started with research for the Platform Confluence page for guidance, resources and templates, including the Research Plan template.

Please also note that the breadth of this research is likely very far reaching. It may be beneficial for us to draft multiple research plans with varying methodologies in order to more appropriately answer our research questions. The assignee of this ticket will decide what direction makes the most sense for Governance team, however please contact and consult with @naomimarcussen if you'd like additional expertise.

Lastly, please keep in mind that there is no expectation for Governance team to answer all research questions in 1 sprint. It will take as long as it takes.

Impacted Artifacts

N/A

Tasks

[x] Create a page in the Governance/Research Confluence space for our research plan and future research findings.
[x] Document a research plan using the Research Plan template
[ ] Share with the full Governance team, @naomimarcussen and @humancompanion-usds for their review and feedback. Governance team practice area expertise will be needed/required.
[ ] Make changes to the research plan based on feedback from Governance, Naomi and Matt.

Peer Review

To be completed by peer reviewer

[ ] User story and acceptance criteria are met

Acceptance Criteria

[ ] We have documented our Research Plan for determining what we need to know for including Mobile App in the Collab Cycle
[ ] Our Research Plan covers the full scope of concerns detailed in the initiative.

Team Notification

[x] Slack post on #platform-governance-team (for review and feedback)
[ ] Presentation at Weekly Initiative Meeting
[ ] No notification needed

How to prepare this issue

Refinement

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[x] Once all above items are checked, add the 'Ready' label.
Planning

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[x] Ticket has been assigned to a Sprint
[x] Ticket has been moved to the Planned pipeline in the Governance team board
[x] Ticket as an assignee and peer reviewer

shiragoodman commented 2 months ago

@allison0034 I have removed you as the peer reviewer for this work and assigned @briandeconinck as peer reviewer instead.

erinrwhite commented 1 month ago

Starting on Research plan document

erinrwhite commented 1 month ago

I have been out of office for a good deal of this sprint and need a little more time to finalize the plan, so this will roll over into the next sprint.

erinrwhite commented 1 month ago

@briandeconinck First take on research plan is ready for your review. I feel like there are a lot of gaps so welcome clarifying questions or ideas!

erinrwhite commented 1 month ago

@briandeconinck @shiragoodman Made a few updates to this draft research plan for bringing mobile into the collab cycle

If you have time can you review, comment, and ask questions and note places where more detail is needed? I know there are some gaps.

This study is pretty tightly scoped. If this approach is completely off the mark, lemme know.

shiragoodman commented 1 month ago

Thank you @erinrwhite ! I will plan to look at this on Monday

briandeconinck commented 1 month ago

@erinrwhite Left some comments, but this all looks really good! Definitely tightly scoped, but I think the outcomes you sketched out will help inform the research that comes after a lot better than if we tried guessing ahead.

shiragoodman commented 1 month ago

@erinrwhite i completed my review and overall, I think it's a pretty solid plan, just missing some of the details needed for execution. What are your proposed next steps? I don't think we're in a place yet where we can actually begin research. Please let me know your thoughts.

In addition, I'd love to get @naomimarcussen 's input on this research plan.

naomimarcussen commented 1 month ago

@erinrwhite I've reviewed and think this looks great! I added a couple of notes about possible activities. I'm happy to help where I can with this.

erinrwhite commented 1 month ago

Thanks all for the review! We're moving ahead with clarifying this plan in the next sprint - #93601 and #93602.

erinrwhite commented 1 month ago

@shiragoodman Seems like it is okay to close this ticket? cc @briandeconinck

shiragoodman commented 1 month ago

@erinrwhite yup! I'm good with us closing. Thank you!

erinrwhite commented 1 month ago

Closing. Thanks @shiragoodman !

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