Spitfire Development Team

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Meet the Team

Khalilah Gambrell	kgambrell@ebsco.com	Product Owner	United States (US)
Christine Schultz-Richert	cschultz-richert@ebsco.com	Product Owner	United States (US)
Radhakrishnan Gopalakrishnan (Vijay)	RGopalakrishnan@ebsco.com	FSE	United States (US)
Kalibek Turgumbayev	kalibek_turgumbayev@epam.com	Solution Architect	Kazakhstan (KZ)
Pavlo Smahin	pavlo_smahin@epam.com	Team Lead (Java)	Ukraine (UA)
Viacheslav Kolesnyk	viacheslav_kolesnyk@epam.com	Java Developer	Poland (PL)
Mukhiddin Yusupov	mukhiddin_yusupov@epam.com	Java Developer	Uzbekistan (UZ)
Svitlana Kovalova	svitlana_kovalova1@epam.com	Java Developer	Ukraine (UA)
Denys Bohdan	denys_bohdan@epam.com	JS Lead Developer	Ukraine (UA)
Dmytro Melnyshyn	dmytro_melnyshyn@epam.com	JS Developer	Ukraine (UA)
Valery Pilko	valery_pilko@epam.com	QA	Georgia (GE)
Natalia Zaitseva	natalia_zaitseva1@epam.com	Scrum Master	Ukraine (UA)

Below you can find vacation email template that you can use.

You should cc: PO - Khalilah, SM - Natalia, Front-end Lead - Denys or Back-end Lead - Pavlo, DM - Oleksii Petrenko and your Resource Manager

all request should be sent in advance, the only exception is emergency requests for 1-2 days

for a 1 week vacation the request should be sent, preferably, 2 weeks before.

for long term vacations (2 weeks) the request should be sent, preferably, one month before.

for vacations 3-4 weeks the request should be sent, two month before.

Vacation template

Hi team,

I would like to take a vacation

on 12 - 17 of November 2022

and

on 17^nd of December 2022

Please approve if there are no objections.

For the items to be fetched and shown on the board the following requirements should be met:

Item must have 'epam-spitfire' label in case it in posted in some other project;
Item must have 'back-end' or 'front-end' label to be caught by quick filters;
Item should have Development Team = Spitfire (to be filtered out from manual testing queue).

User Story or Bug can be added to Sprint only if it conforms to the following criteria of Definition of Ready:

Requirements are clearly expressed by PO, reviewed/groomed and well understood by dev team;
Acceptance criteria are clearly defined and confirmed by PO and dev team;
Estimation in Story Points is added;
There are no blockers, dependencies, prerequisites preventing the team from completion of the story/bug (if there are any - they must be clearly indicated and story/bug must be moved to Blocked status);
Story conforms to INVEST requirements (if possible):
- Independent
- Negotiable
- Valuable
- Estimatable
- Small
- Testable