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
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The root cause of the problem is identified. -
The surface of the problem is as small as possible.
What are the potential solutions?
- Populate the issue tracker with some initial easy issues for the rest of the team to use
- Tag the rest of the team to this issue to draw their attention to it
- Ping team members on Discord to the existence of the new issues
- Email team members with info on the issue tracker
- Assign each team member a literal task of "move this issue to the 'done' column"
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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
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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.
- If yes, check this box and close the issue. Well done!