Shared Team Values/Principles/Good Practices

[josecelano]

From the internal weekly meeting: https://github.com/orgs/nautilus-cyberneering/discussions/66#discussioncomment-7534160

Hi all (@da2ce7, @cgbosse, @mario-nt, @grmbyrn, @WarmBeer) for the next meeting I would like to add a topic for discussion. I would like to share my view on prioritising tasks and how I try to contribute.

How to prioritize

1. Security bugs
2. Fix pipeline
3. Take care of the Community
   3.1 Reply to new issues
   3.1 Reply comments
   3.2 Review PRs
   3.3 Merge PRs
4. Take care of the Team
   4.1 Reply team members waiting for feedback, review, …
   4.2 Help team members
5. Bugs
6. Keep things clean:
   6.1 Fix broken things
   6.2 Implement small issues (those taking less than 1 day)
   6.2.1 Update dependencies
   6.2.2 …
   6.3 Review and close stale issues
7. Outcome mindset
   7.1 Deliver things before starting new ones. “Good code is worthless in Git” (the sentence is not mine).
8. New features

In my daily routine, I always check that there is no higher-priority task.

How to develop (values/principles/good practices)

• We all are maintainers. Keep an eye on everything, not only your current low-level task.
• Be part of the community. GitHub is not a TODO list.
  • Ask for feedback
  • Give feedback
  • Write good issues/comments
• Sostenible work
  • Don’t leave unfinished things
  • For big changes, make parallel changes. Be always production-ready
  • Don’t break things in a way that takes too much effort to restore them
  • Parallel and small changes.
    - Introduce changes progressively.
    - They are easier to rollback
    - They are easier to integrate (merge).

Resources

I think some companies are doing a great job explicitly defining their values/principles/practices, like for example, Audiense. See https://github.com/AudienseCo/engineering-principles.

Audiense Values

• 🏋️‍♀️ Strive for awesomeness
• ✋ Take ownership
• 🤜 🤛 Best as a team
• ✅ Do what I say I will do in the right way
• 🤩 Pursuit of happiness
• 👂 Everyone's voice is valued
• 🪟 Strive for a culture of transparency

Lean (Software/Product) Development Resources:

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eferro_lean-softwareproduct-development-resources-activity-7128692853869850624-ZKd7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop