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 sprint planning

• product owner picks focus, features, and bugs for next sprint, moves to a new sprint bucket in JIRA
• all: may nominate candidate bugs and features for sprint
• all: look at sprint bucket in JIRA and make estimates for their tasks
• all: separate design and implementation for new features when entering issues in jira
• Product Owner prioritizes items for planned work.
• sprint planning meeting:
  • Choices for planned work are reviewed by team
  • Release engineer chosen
  • Required design meetings are identified and planned/scheduled

3/21 - 3/27
planning meeting: 3/27

3/21 - 3/27
(one planning for all of sprint 6)

development and design cycle

• dev: starts coding on clearly defined features
• dev: facilitates required design meetings, and documents final design choices so QA can prepare test plans, know what to expect with new features
• qa: starts testplans
• scrum master: produces burndown chart
• ongoing releases to test environment as needed, to be negotiated between dev and QA
  
• New features / planned work first;
• Last week of cycle is for bug backlog

3/31 - 4/11

4/11 - 5/23
* will overlap with bug fixing for sprint 6a

first release to qa

• release engineer or dev: releases to QA machine
• dev: code is branched, and all new development occurs in a that sprint's branch
• dev: if there is time before issues related to immediate build come in, start bugfixes from backlog
• QA: test plans complete, testing  of planned work begins
  
  

4/22

5/26

iterative qa phase

• dev:  work on bugfixes for planned work
• qa: verifies backlog fixes, and fixes as specified in each version's release notes
• customer relations: sends an early notification to thalia-info

4/22 - 5/1

5/26 - 6/13

QA makes recommendation about release -- team decides go/no go for proposed production release date

• qa: all fixes verified, no blockers
• customer relations: sends an imminent release announcement to thalia-info 24-48 hours before release
• release engineer: 24 hours before release, notify server ops of service outage

5/1

6/13

release to production

• release engineer and ops: release code - release window is a Tuesday or Wednesday, 6PM-9PM
• release engineer: send confirmation to server ops that release was successful
• customer relations: send confirmation to thalia-info that release was successful
  

5/6

6/17