Looking for new Sprint Manager assignee

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Over the last few months, I’ve been working on lowering the amount of meta-work going into my sprints without much success: I’m working on too many roles (and so is everyone, maybe we should discuss this in a separate topic).

That said, I’m looking to give away the Sprint Manager position to someone else so that I can dedicate more time to my other roles (DevOps assignee, epics, core committer role) and deliver better results there.

Sprint management work consists of:

  • Checking and making sure the sprint updates are posted
  • Nudging people on tickets in blocker
  • Moving tickets to done
  • Handling retrospective and spillover spreadsheets

See the full role scope here: Roles and Expectations - OpenCraft Handbook

@bebop Can someone step in in the next few sprints?
Log time here: BB-282

@antoviaque We discussed this in our 121 earlier this year: I’ve been managing, but I think that now is the time to switch.

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Those all sound like things which could be automated. Maybe someone wants to change this from metawork to short-term programming work by automating this role away?

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@giovannicimolin Sounds good - and thanks for doing such a good job at this role for the past years (y)

There is actually already an accelerated epic for that (FAL-2144), which @anon46505572 is currently taking over :)

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I’m not so sure about this. I think this usually involves at some investigation on if the linked PRs are closed etc.

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Some of us are discussing elsewhere the idea of unifying sprint management with most other meta-development (sustainability, capacity, recruitment, HR, etc) into a full-time, single role. I thought it relevant to this discussion as well.

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