04 - Week 04

Time management
Weekly planning iteration
Author

ProtossGP32

Published

April 11, 2023

Introduction

RoadMap: Define what you want, know your energy and yourself

Things to accomplish:

  • Create a REST API application with SpringBoot
  • Create the first CI/CD pipeline for a Spring Boot project
  • Complete my tasks for the Team Project in Sprint 2
  • Deeper understanding of the DevOps methodology

TO-DO: list all the tasks that you have to do by concepts, technologies, tools, etc…

  • Categories:
    • Class Project (CP)
    • Team Project (TP)
    • Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
    • DevOps Learning (DOL)
    • Planning & MindSet (PMS)
    • MSX-related tasks (MSX)
CATEGORY TASK WEIGHT INTRODUCED ON
CP Create Library REST client 5 Week 1
CP Unify User HTML forms 5 Week 1
CP Unify Publications creation 8 Week 1
CP Migrate H2 to another DB 13 Week 1
CP Create missing Unit Tests 8 Week 1
CP Update soft. script with Postman 8 Week 2
CP Swagger and Mockito into Library 8 Week 2
CP Enable logging in Java 8 Week 2
CP Quarto: automate weekly planning 13 Week 2
CP Integrate MongoDB to project 8 Week 4
CP Finish MongoDB tutorials 8 Week 4
CI/CD Learn GitHub Actions 13 Week 1
CI/CD Install Jenkins 8 Week 1
CI/CD Create staging environment 13 Week 1
TP Finish User Entity 13 Week 1
TP Create missing Unit Tests 8 Week 1
TP Enable logging 5 Week 2
TP Create REST API 5 Week 2
DOL Deploy workloads on Kubernetes 13 Week 1
DOL Learn about OpenStack 21 Week 1
DOL Learn about OKD 21 Week 2
DOL Learn about Python and Django 13 Week 2
DOL Learn about Argo workflows 21 Week 2
DOL Learn about SQL and Postgres 21 Week 2
DOL Learn about Terraform 21 Week 3
DOL Learn about Ansible 21 Week 3
DOL Install a SMTP server 13 Week 1
DOL Finish Penpot deployment and documentation 5 Week 3
MSX Test wired adapter 5 Week 3
PMS Weekly planning 8 Week 1
PMS Weekly retrospective 8 Week 1
PMS MindSet & Lectures 5 Week 1

Spring goal: categorize and filter them by importance and urgency based on your roadmap

  • Important and urgent:
    • CP: Swagger and Mockito into Library (W8)
    • CP: Integrate MongoDB to project (W8)
    • CP: Finish MongoDB tutorials (W8)
    • TP: Finish User Entity (W13)
    • TP: Update functional diagrams (W8)
    • DOL: Learn about observability (W13)
    • DOL: Learn about OKD (21)
    • DOL: Learn about Python and Django (13)
    • DOL: Learn about Argo workflows (21)
    • DOL: Learn about Terraform (21)
    • DOL: Learn about Ansible (21)
    • PMS: Weekly planning (W8)
  • Important but not urgent:
    • CP: Create missing Unit Tests (W8)
    • CP: Create Library REST client (W5)
    • CP: Migrate H2 to another DB (W13)
    • CP: Update soft. script with Postman (W8)
    • CP: Enable logging in Java (W8)
    • TP: Create missing Unit Tests (W8)
    • TP: Update UMLs (W5)
    • TP: Enable logging (W5)
    • TP: Create REST API (W5)
    • CI/CD: Learn GitHub Actions (W13)
    • CI/CD: Create staging environment (W13)
    • DOL: Deploy workloads on Kubernetes (W13)
    • DOL: Learn about SQL and Postgres (W21)
    • DOL: Learn about OpenStack (W21)
    • MSX: Test wired adapter (W5)
    • PMS: Weekly retrospective (W8)
    • PMS: MindSet & Lectures (W5)
  • Not important but urgent:
    • DOL: Install a SMTP server (W13)
    • CI/CD: Install Jenkins (W8)
  • Neither important nor urgent:
    • DOL: Finish Penpot deployment and documentation (W5)
    • CP: Unify User HTML forms (W5)
    • CP: Unify Publications creation (W8)

Decision-making: plan your week

Each week, define tasks for each energy slot of the day (3 each day, 5 days a week). At the end of the week, review it to see how many of the tasks have been accomplished. Once done, plan the next week taking into account the feedback from the previous week:

WEEK 3 MONDAY (W34) TUESDAY (W26) WEDNESDAY (W32) THURSDAY (W34) FRIDAY (W37)
Morning – PMS: Weekly planning (W8) CP: Integrate MongoDB to project (W8) CP: Enable logging in Java (W8) TP: Finish User Entity (W13) CP: Swagger and Mockito into Library (W8) TP: Update functional diagrams (W8)
Afternoon – DOL: Learn about Python and Django (13) DOL: Learn about observability (W13) DOL: Learn about Argo workflows (21) DOL: Learn about OKD (21) TP: Enable logging (W5)
Evening – TP: Update UMLs (W5) CP: Create missing Unit Tests (W8) CP: Finish MongoDB tutorials (W8) TP: Create missing Unit Tests (W8) PMS: Weekly retrospective (W8)

Ultimate goal: metrics

Make a retrospective of the previous week, analyse the results of the planning and take action.

  • Number of planned tasks per category:
CATEGORY NUMBER OF PLANNED TASKS NUMBER OF COMPLETED TASKS
Class Projects (CP)
Team Project (TP)
CI/CD
DevOps Learning (DOL)
Planning and MindSet (PMS)
MSX-related tasks (MSX)

Completed tasks

Think about the complexity of the completed tasks and if they matched the expectatives:

  • If the task was easier than you thought, move it to lower energies spaces
  • If the task was harder than you though, think about spitting it into less complex tasks

Monday:

  • Holiday

Tuesday:

  • Morning: Weekly planning done. Started MongoDB tutorials
  • Afternoon: Nothing done
  • Evening: Nothing done

Wednesday:

  • Morning:
    • Cloud MongoDB integration into LibraryManagement project (only BookImage objects)
    • Finished Python + Django REST API tutorial, endpoints tested using Postman
  • Afternoon: Finished Practical Observability course
  • Evening: Finished Practical Observability course

Thursday:

  • Morning: Team meeting, compared current tasks progress and defined new workflow approaches for frontend tasks
  • Afternoon: Worked on Team project tasks
  • Evening: Worked on Team project tasks

Friday:

  • Morning:
  • Afternoon:
  • Evening:

Unfinished tasks

Think about the reasons why these tasks aren’t done:

  • Did you lack some kind of resource (knowledge, tools, etc…) to even start it?
  • Did you find any obstacle that slowed down your progress? The obstacle can be either internal or external, related or unrelated to the task
  • Is this task something that you’ve been dragging along for some time? Is it really necessary?

Monday:

  • Holiday

Tuesday:

  • Nothing done, no reason at all

Wednesday:

  • Replaced tasks with the pending ones from Tuesday

Thursday:

Friday:

Retrospective

Based on the previous analysis, identify the weak points of the previous planning, discard useless tasks, reassing new weights to pending tasks and schedule your next week:

  • Best decision of all week
  • Avoided pits
  • What have you reorganized during this week?
    • Self-learning sessions
  • Core concepts learnt during this week / What have you learned?
    • Basic principles of system observability
    • Integrate MongoDB into Java projects
    • Python + Django API
    • Team management (OpenProject)