Past Sprints

As mentioned in Sprint planning, we work in 2 week sprints. On this page we document our sprint goal and output in the following format:

dd/mm/yyyy - dd/mm/yyyy


Sprint Goals	Sprint goal goes here
Sprint Result	Completed (or not!)
Additional Outcomes	Outcomes go here Separated by `<br>` tags To make them a list

Sprints 2022

16/03/2022 - 29/03/2022


Sprint Goals	Complete migration from Jira to Zenhub
Sprint Result	Completed
Additional Outcomes	Outcomes go here Separated by `<br>` tags To make them a list

30/03/2022 - 12/04/2022


Sprint Goals	Refactor ways of working and ceremonies around new software (Zenhub)
Sprint Result	Complete
Additional Outcomes	Thanos reciever able to recieve metrics over HTTPS Several ADRs completed

13/04/2022 - 26/04/2022


Sprint Goals	No Goal
Sprint Result	N/A
Additional Outcomes	Lots of AWS Trusted Advisor alerts fixed Lots of dependancy updates and maintenance catch up completed

27/04/2022 - 10/05/2022


Sprint Goals	Ensure PKI Infrastructure has Monitoring & Alerting configured Complete all Terraform upgrades
Sprint Result	Completed
Additional Outcomes	Automating PR labelling with Github Actions Daniel the Manual Spaniel

11/05/2022 - 24/05/2022


Sprint Goals	Automate and inegrate actions, “Let the machines do the talking”!
Sprint Result	Completed
Additional Outcomes	VPC CNI version upgraded AWS Shield Advanced rolled out to pre-prod

25/05/2022 - 07/06/2022


Sprint Goals	Deploy DHCP option 234 to Dev/Pre-Production
Sprint Result	Not Completed - Feature is completed and testing with EUC team must be arranged before pushing through to pre-prod
Additional Outcomes	Github teams as code

08/06/2022 - 21/06/2022


Sprint Goals	Complete outstanding spikes (EKS, PagerDuty & Github Actions CI)
Sprint Result	Completed all Spikes
Additional Outcomes	Kea upgrade to 2.0.2, DHCP Option 234

22/06/2022 - 05/07/2022


Sprint Goals	Improve management of DHCP service by implementing search and alerting on subnet capacity.
Sprint Result	Completed
Additional Outcomes	DHCP Option 234 feature now availabe on production. NACS live on first site.

06/07/2022 - 19/07/2022


Sprint Goals	Our focus is on improving the visibility of IMAP We believe it delivers greater visibility to us and SNOW to improve trust in our monitoring. This will be confirmed when we can validate an alert can enter SNOW.
Sprint Result	Completed
Additional Outcomes	@cloudopsbot incident functionality - started pagerduty development - 2 NACS features; policy priority and grafana links for ease of use

20/07/2022 - 02/08/2022


Sprint Goals	Everything EKS: migrate, one cluster, upgrade, monitor. (Reduce complexity and cost, easier maintainability, automate dependency checks). Stretch Goal: Stretch: Ensure all team members have the same access to enable better working practices
Sprint Result	Completed
Additional Outcomes	Fixed JSON Exporter

03/08/2022 - 16/08/2022


Sprint Goals	🧹 Complete 1 or 2 point tickets amounting to 15 total points. Stretch Goal: Stretch: Improve security posture by completing all dependency upgrades.
Sprint Result	Not completed, couple of tickets carried over to the next sprint
Additional Outcomes	NACS Rollout going successfully.

17/08/2022 - 30/08/2022


Sprint Goals	Save money by completing the migration of all IMA resources to the EKS cluster. Stretch Goal: Complete SMTP Spike for Print Recompete.
Sprint Result	Not Completed, carried over to next sprint.
Additional Outcomes	NACS rollout continuing to progress successfully.

31/08/2022 - 13/09/2022


Sprint Goals	Save money by completing the migration of all IMA resources to the EKS cluster. Stretch Goal: Complete SMTP Spike for Print Recompete.
Sprint Result	Not Completed, carried over to next sprint.
Additional Outcomes

14/09/2022 - 27/09/2022


Sprint Goals	Monitoring cluster v2 is ready for user testing. Stretch Goal: Complete SMTP Spike for Print Recompete.
Sprint Result	Completed, outstanding tasks noted in repository.
Additional Outcomes

28/09/2022 - 11/10/2022


Sprint Goals	Complete current sprint, pull in and complete as many ½ point tickets from in development as possible.
Sprint Result	Completed, outstanding tasks noted in repository.
Additional Outcomes

12/10/2022 - 25/10/2022


Sprint Goals	Complete as many 1 - 2 point tickets from in development as possible (30 points total). Stretch Goal: Complete 50% of the in progress dependabot tickets.
Sprint Result
Additional Outcomes

26/10/2022 - 8/11/2022


Sprint Goals	Complete all outstanding “Todo” items and 50% (18) of the in progress dependabot tickets.
Sprint Result	Completed 50% of dependabots that were in progress (18) however did not clear the to do column.
Additional Outcomes

9/11/2022 - 22/11/2022


Sprint Goals	Complete rebranding to provide a consistent view of the the team.
Sprint Result	Complete
Additional Outcomes

23/11/2022 - 7/12/2022


Sprint Goals	Our focus is on delivering a complete monitoring solution, this will be achieved when a test deployment of dev and prep is completed and all dashboards are functional.
Sprint Result
Additional Outcomes

08/12/2023 - 21/12/2022


Sprint Goals	Partial Firebreak and cleanup
Sprint Result
Additional Outcomes

21/12/2023 - 03/01/2023


Sprint Goals	🔥 Firebreak 🔥
Sprint Result	We learnt lots of cool stuff!
Additional Outcomes

04/01/2023 - 17/01/2023


Sprint Goals	New Year, New Passwords. Update passwords used by docker ecr images. Stretch Goal - Update DHCP Alpine image
Sprint Result	Completed
Additional Outcomes

18/01/2023 - 31/01/2023


Sprint Goals	Upgrade PagerDuty Slack integration. Stretch - Improve security posture by completing trusted advisor tickets.
Sprint Result	Completed
Additional Outcomes

01/02/2023 - 14/02/2023


Sprint Goals	Last Pass password rotation. Stretch - Investigate DNS , TCP, UDP and complete remaining trusted advisor ticket.
Sprint Result	Completed
Additional Outcomes

15/02/2023 - 28/02/2023


Sprint Goals
Sprint Result
Additional Outcomes

01/03/2023 - 14/03/2023


Sprint Goals	Complete handover of DHCP Admin Portal Tasks. Stretch Goal: Complete DNS & NACS Spikes (generate tickets to do the work).
Sprint Result	Completed
Additional Outcomes

15/03/2023 - 28/03/2023


Sprint Goals	Review NACS Monitoring / Alerting Configuration. Stretch - Upgrade EKS Cluster
Sprint Result	Completed
Additional Outcomes

29/03/2023 - 12/04/2023


Sprint Goals	Finish off NACs slack notification - Stretch goal to compete Alerts for Wired devices
Sprint Result	Completed
Additional Outcomes

13/04/2023 - 25/04/2023


Sprint Goals	NACs Spike for wired devices and Review NACs documentation
Sprint Result	Completed
Additional Outcomes

26/04/2023 - 10/05/2023


Sprint Goals	Finish off NACs slack notification
Sprint Result	Completed
Additional Outcomes	Complete alerts for wired devices

11/05/2023 - 24/05/2023


Sprint Goals	Implement NACS logging enhancement and provide overview sessions
Sprint Result	Completed
Additional Outcomes	Review Github documentation repos ensuring they are up to date

25/05/2023 - 07/06/2023


Sprint Goals	Complete overview session on….

08/06/2023 - 21/06/2023


Sprint Goals	Complete Github version 2 source action upgrade on all pipelines
Sprint Result
Additional Outcomes

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