Create Slack bot to ask Core Team leads for their weekly status update

[hackajesse]

@MissPaaj won't be here forever, and it sure would be nice to have this automated... with reminders that ping leads if they haven't given their update yet. How about a bot to do it, @jszwedko @therebelrobot ?

Copy: Hello [insert lead slack handles] - It's time for weekly virtual stand-up! Team leads, please share: 1 - what has your team worked on in the past week? 2 - what is your team planning for the next week? 3 - are there any things your team is stuck on or needs assistance with?

[afomi]

💯 to automation!

But... you might consider https://www.15five.com, http://www.webstandup.com, do.com, or another off-the-shelf product - or, even an existing feature like a recurring calendar event.

In general, I've seen challenges with using software to prompt human communication. I'm curious, if communication isn't occurring by a specified time, would software help more than a basic reminder notification?

[therebelrobot]

Lowest hanging fruit would be to set a Slack reminder, set to that message every Wednesday in the core-team channel.

A slack bot to message them directly could work, but responses would be private and would take a bit of work to store the responses and print them somewhere that matters. If the Slack reminder doesn't work, that's something we could set up.

Those tools look really cool @afomi, but I'm very wary about adding yet another platform to our core team's workflow. While I'm sure they work well for within their contexts, adding additional tools has historically been a hard sell for adoption with this core team. Slack is still probably the best medium for it.

[therebelrobot]

Here's the body of the reminder I'm creating, for iteration if needed:

/remind #core-team every Wednesday at 11am
Hello Core Team Leads! 
_@jesse, @hy, @phoebe, @larry.bafundo, @pamela, @therebelrobot, @jszwedko_

It's time for *weekly virtual stand-up!* Team leads, please share:

*1* - what has your team worked on in the past week?
*2* - what is your team planning for the next week?
*3* - are there any things your team is stuck on or needs assistance with?

[jszwedko]

👍 to using a Slack reminder for this -- low overhead.

[therebelrobot]

Updated the team lead list in the actual reminder to @maddie, @pamela, @phoebe, @larry.bafundo, @therebelrobot as per @hackajesse's request.

Also created a similar reminders for #infrastructure-team and #brigadehub respectively.

[jszwedko]

:+1: I think we can call this resolved then.