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January 3

To date I have

Cleaned up a SharePoint data share for consistency around projects

Migrated multiple teams into a new Jira project

Created new Scrum boards and SOS boards for all those moved teams

Created a first stab at an overview board so one can see all in progress, upcoming, and backlog work - with filters for teams

Have been managing Jira (workflow, post-status functions) and I need to learn more to accomplish more. I current setup anything going to status "completed" gets resolution: done and "rejected" gets "won't do" to help with built in default reports, dashboard items and reporting.

Decided I must learn to write Jira reports and Dashboard widgets to remove wasted redundant weekly work on writing reports and status updates - when all the data should be in Jira.

I'm still trying to get a handle on everything but my goal I was given was
1. Visibility into what we are doing and need to do
2. Ability to estimate upcoming requests (this gets into creating templates, automation, processes)

My person objective on top of the above is to remove as much wasted time (duplicate work, non value added work) from team members as I can.
Specifically I want them to log hours in jira, but in return provide them a weekly pay report to input to the pay system, and a weekly status report to provide to their manager (adding comments). I want scrum masters to be able to have reports on epics, and sprints, be self service and self evident. I also would like sprint planning (allotment of hours per person, even cross team) to also be available as a tool for scrum masters, and a report visible at a whole group level as well.

I need to now clean the migrated Jira backlog and get it into a semblance of compliance and iterate on the fields and statuses.

I also need to get ready for the upcoming sprint, Grooming did not go smoothly this time, or last time.

I also need to get everything to stop being in emails, and unique - repeatable (documented!) processes!

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