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Introduce Team to Issue Tracker/Develop Good Issue Habits

What is the engineering productivity problem to solve?

The team currently does not use the issue tracker (issue tracker is new).

Problem identification checklist

  • The root cause of the problem is identified.
  • The surface of the problem is as small as possible.

What are the potential solutions?

  1. Populate the issue tracker with some initial easy issues for the rest of the team to use
  2. Tag the rest of the team to this issue to draw their attention to it
  3. Ping team members on Discord to the existence of the new issues
  4. Email team members with info on the issue tracker
  5. Assign each team member a literal task of "move this issue to the 'done' column"
  • All potential solutions are listed.
  • A solution has been chosen for the first iteration: all of the above (except email, nobody likes email)

Verify that the solution has improved the situation

  • The solution improved the situation.
    • If yes, check this box and close the issue. Well done! 🎉
    • Otherwise, create a new "Productivity Improvement" issue. You can re-use the description from this issue, but another solution should be chosen this time.

Credit

GitLab Productivity Improvement Issue Template 2022-02-13