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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….

PKI NACS DHCP/DNS Grafana SMTP| | Sprint Result | Partially Completed| | Additional Outcomes | | |

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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