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- What you have worked on, including references to Jira tickets, short comments and the amount you've worked on each of them.
- What you plan to do next week, including continuations, new tasks, holidays, etc.
- Any serious problems or blocking issues, to raise awareness that you may not be performing as optimally as expected.
Jira +
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work time
Linking the Jira card (by title, ex. HPC-123) and a short description of what you've done.
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But for that to work, the right cards need to be updated as you progress, with comments and changes to the workflow (status, priority, sub-tasks). If engineers don't update the cards, tech leads and project managers have no way to know what has been done.
Three Blocks
Jira +
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work time
Since we're updating Jira cards, we don't need to reference the cards anywhere. Just adding comments to the cards would be enough.
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Also make sure to keep the workflow correct. Only keep "In Progress" what you're actively working on that week, and move to "Upstream Review" what's waiting on the community or back to "TODO" what you have put on hold.
Important: Do not update work hours / points on the Jira cards. Those are completely ignored by everyone and every script. Instead, just keep the right cards in the right columns and that's more than we need.
Plans for next week
Tasks that are "Open" are unassigned meaning no one will work on them any time soon. Once you plan on working with something, assign that card to you (or create a new one and assign it), so that it appears in your "TODO" column.
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