Type of work
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
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