New priorities and GitHub access

Some new priorities landed this week, and I've finally got access to all the tools.

Access to Github

I finally got access to Github this week. I'm giving myself a gold star for pushing up a fix on the same day to one of our smaller repos.

Reprioritisation of work

I'm working across two teams. One is focused on iterating and maintaining the core live service. The other is looking at adding new features for specific care settings.

Both teams had their work reprioritised this week. Being new, I appreciate the renewed focus on particular problems to solve.

However, the disruption means that some of my fledgling work will need to be paused as we switch. Still, it's nice to be part of new(ish) initiatives, together with everyone.

Fitting in to the team

Both teams have a full suite of strong UCD (user centred design) people already (interaction design, service design, user research, content design). So, I'm working through how best to support their existing processes, and generally be helpful, without getting in the way whilst I learn the ropes.

Given the new priorities, both teams are in discovery mode, but I get the sense things will move quickly and I'll be able to get stuck into some meaty prototyping work soon.

I'll need to be flexible and consider focusing on one team only, if priorities demand it.

Onboarding notes

Whilst being in onboarding mode over the past couple of weeks, I've been makings lots of notes, these will set me up with the information I need later on.

Here are the kind of things I've been collecting notes on...

  • Team (who's on the team, what do they do?)
  • Key meetings (e.g. stand-up, planning, show and tell)
  • The roadmap (what are we working on now, next, later?)
  • My details (why does it always feel so difficult to locate your own email?)
  • Important links (e.g. to the live service, prototypes, key design artefacts, Jira boards)
  • Environments (e.g. dev, test, prod)
  • Ways of working (anything to note about how the team works? What's the release process like?)
  • Tools (e.g. Mural, GitHub, Heroku)
  • Users (who are the primary and secondary users?)
  • Care settings (e.g. GP, pharmacy, maternity)
  • Service channels (e.g. Web, email, paper)
  • Wider service (what other products and services are there?)

Going on hols

I'm away for just over a week now. See you on the other side.

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