The previous state of the union post.
I wanted to do more, of these but have I? This is just a post reminding me of various bits I’ve done these past 6 months.
Digital Strategy
- Unify our custom development endeavors
- Leading the unification of previous dev work into a team accessible resource
- Staff training in GIT
- Staff training in Gitlab
- Staff training in Gitlab CI
- Researched, Created and maintaining standards for our dev team to work with (simple stuff docs and processes)
- Started our “disaster docs” if someone is hit by a bus / wins the lottery
- Identified need for QA resource
- Got the QA resource!
- Roadmap
- Asked for and took Action to start a “Technology Enhanced Learning Operational Roadmap” aimed at engaging team members with future considerations
- Actioned the Roadmap meetings and discussions
- Lead the Roadmap meetings (ongoing)
Human Resourcing
- Completed the Line Manager Hiring training
- Completed the Line Manager Ethics and Diversity training
- Sat on the interview panel for 3 WMG roles
- Spoke my mind clearly to Head of interview panel
- Invited to help write job specs for 2 roles
- Invited to help create job interview tasks
Representation of WMG
- Invited to the MyDay CollabCo User group to represent WMG & UoW
Agile & Project Management
- Improved on the Agile workflow I introduced to work better inside the University environment
- Project problems solver – became the goto person for digital projects going “haywire” and turning them into achieving projects
- Had our first Agile vs. Culture issue, got knocked, learnt and then spoke with the relevant people to be less knocked next time
- Ran “Introducing Agile” for more staff again
- Agile coached 2 Product Owners on their projects and any fails / issues they were experiencing
- Ran multiple, “introducing Agile courses”
Actual Production
- Lobbied and received Continuos Integration access from Central IT
- Setup Gitlab CI to build, test and deploy on master push
- Changed development method to BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) with Behat
- Created local, feature, pre-production and production flow
- Built a Transaction and BDD testing process
- Built re-usable modules for
- Continuous Deployment
- Google Analytics
- Environment Banner to identify app servers
- Basic User Role ACL control
- HTML Helper templating
- HTML / CSS workflow
- Model Repository Modules
- Pulling live DB to local DB for testing
- Clearing DB automatically
- Improved my Laravel 5 understanding
Projects
- Maintenance on Biddr (my custom reverse bidding web app)
- Launch and Maintenance of critical Supervisor & Project matching tool for 1000 users
- Parachuted in to sort 3 broken projects
- Applied Trello Story Points
- Started the team talking again (humour and leadership)
- Created strategy to bring the external developer more “internal”
- Skype
- Daily scrums
- Internal account from IT
- VPN access
- Added to our Gitlab central repo
- Applied Weekly sprints
- PM Elective Selector
- PM MyTime
- PM Visits
- Maintenance on Gradr
Next…
I’m moving towards more Project Management, so training in that and more experience.
Maybe become a line manager
Baby!
