2017-12-18 Project Management Meeting

OMRS17

• Any items PM needs to follow up on?

  • Operationally it would be good to review notes pages to consolidate and pull out important items (check back with Terry in a couple weeks)

OCL Module

@raff

• OCL currently being tested by the Banda Health team from Kenya. We are working on fixing issues together. A few days ago @raff did a new release of the module with some fixes, but expect to do another release this week. (update 12/6)

Modulus server being decommissioned

@Darius Jazayeri

• Darius did testing

Reference Application

@Stephen Senkomago Musoke

• was to be released on Dec 7 but don't see it on download page or on Talk

• Asked Tendo & Stephen here.

Platform

@Irene Nyakate, @Wyclif Luyima, @Burke Mamlin

• Asked about release status here.

GCI

@Ivange Larry Ndumbe

• Leaned a lot on a few mentors who were doing the heavy lifting for GCI task review

  • Felt like we leaned too much on Daniel for reviewing technical tasks

• Could have used more mentors with technical skills this year

• Mentor team was limited to previous GSoC & GCI students and mentors

• Many mentors were too busy during GCI

• Have moved on to curated tickets

• Students have blown us away

  • Claiming many tasks and even claiming some difficult tasks (and teaching Daniel a thing or two along the way )

• For future GCI:

  • Experienced mentors

  • Understand availability of mentors ahead of time

  • Be clearer with expectations

  • Consider having mentors sign up for specific hour(s)

    • Create a timeline where people can help cover all times during the week

  • It would help if mentors could be assigned to particular types of tasks

    • Consider accepting more mentors, but limit mentors to approve only tasks for which their experience allows.

  • Try to find ways to motivate mentors for availability.

  • Some mentors seem to get tired along the way.

  • Expectation: 20% of mentors active, 40% fairly active, 40% not active or unseen

  • Did not have statistics to help getting started

    • How many tasks needed up front?

    • What types of tasks are needed? e.g., some tasks (like video tasks) can be done by many students; however, coding tasks cannot easily be taken by many students without creating confusion

    • How many mentors are needed?

  • Start preparing for GCI 1-2 months earlier (before announcement) to get more coding tasks prepared

  • Consider creating a document like So you want to be a GSoC admin? for GCI admins.

Andela

@Daniel Kayiwa

pmtool

Scrum of Scrums

• Next one Jan 10

• Terry working on format for Scrum of Scrums, still need to get with Darius on this

• Terry posted to Talk about tracking shared opportunities - https://talk.openmrs.org/t/2017-10-11-quarterly-ecosystem-scrum-of-scrums/13520/5

• Jamie posting this week on Talk in preparation

PM Activities

• Anything to add or change?