Type of work

• Type of work

  • Feature addition

  • Turning on features

  • Bug fixes

  • Business research

  • Config changes

  • Data warehouse

  • Spiking

  • Documentation

  • Devops - general

  • Devops - application specific

  • Technical debt

  • Self learning / innovation time

  • Hack days

  • Conferences or courses

  • New application or breaking an application

  • Emails

  • Meetings

  • Non team work

  • CI/CD builds/steps are failing

  • Testing

  • Deploying applications

  • Release cover

    • Technical Support

Feature addition

• Adding new features required for the business, ops, pipeline, technical requirements

• Change/adapt current features

• Remove features

Turning on features

• Enabling a toggle

• Config changes

Bug fixes

• Issues in production, that need to be investigated and dealt with

  • Sometimes better to get the app working, and deal with the issue later on

• Investigating

  • Looking on the box, at the logs

  • Looking through splunk

  • Getting the bug to appear locally

Business research

• Looking for information in codebase or database for business query

• Doing research for future business stories

Config changes

• no code changes, only properties are changed

Data warehouse

• Work to help provide information for reporting, audting or archiving

Spiking

• coding untested feature to see issues or possiblities

• seeing code

• architecture or design sessions

Documentation

• Writing readmes (for how to run, issues, common commands, what it is)

• Writing general documentation for devs/ops/business

• Architectural design of apps, or clusters of apps

Devops - general

Devops - application specific

• propeties and config changes so it can be deployed, go through pipeline etc

• Making app meet readiness requirement for deployment

Technical debt

• improving build times

• automating tasks for the team

• Refactoring

• Change design decision

Self learning / innovation time

Hack days

• Working in teams/individual, to create/spike an idea that could be useful to the department or business.

• This could be something that was worked on during innovation time

Conferences or courses

New application or breaking an application

Emails

Meetings

• Stand ups

• retros

• Feedback session

• skill matrix

• one to one

• Meetings

  • planning sessions for story work

  • Design sessions

  • Knowledge sharing

  • bug triages

  • bug reflection

  • business issues

Non team work

• If part of a group that looks after whole department areas ie secruity, platform etc.

  • There will be meetings and actions that need to happen

  • There will be work that team needs to do

CI/CD builds/steps are failing

Testing

Deploying applications

Release cover

• over night, on call to resolve any Issues (ie for bring app down, to do release)

• During the day (ie for rolling releases, no downtime)

Technical Supports