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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi all,<br>
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Sorry it’s been radio silence from me for a while – I wanted to get in touch before our various holiday breaks and whatnot, with a discussion of what next steps will look like. I’m thinking these should happen sometime soon after the new year, ideally.
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Our next steps should be some kind of triage (i.e. selecting which endpoints need documenting most) and then distributing the work. I’d like to come to an agreement as a group on how to proceed with each of these steps; I’m going to outline a couple ways I
could see it working up front so we have something to bat around.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Triage/figuring out which routes need attention:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br>
- we could just individually bump priority on routes we know are bad, clear those, and then do another round of triage (maybe with more investigation ala option 2 below) then.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- we could divide the routes evenly? by capacity? and have each person check N routes and mark which ones need attention<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Or something in the middle, like categorize the routes somehow and investigate specific categories?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br>
Personally, I’m having a hard time saying what’s right here, and that’s making me feel like doing 1 just to have some concrete progress on the table isn’t the worst idea - and maybe exposure to more routes while fixing it will give some ideas for how to improve
triage methods?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Then, splitting the work:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br>
I think due to differing capacity and volunteer nature, this has to be pretty driven by individuals - I think “grab routes with high priority and work on them” is more or less a given. I think we might want to specify some low-effort check-in/check-out guidelines,
i.e. maybe whether a person should only assign themselves a route right before they get to work on it, or if grabbing a bunch that you have in mind is better, and so on. People with more PM experience than I in this group, so PLEASE chime in here
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji"">☺</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dave Mayo (he/him)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Senior Digital Library Software Engineer<br>
Harvard University > HUIT > LTS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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