2024-03-27 - Development Team Engagement

Jeremy Huff - Agenda is to talk about how to improve the communication between the Development Team and the TC to increase their engagement. In the future there has been attempts to increase the Dev team engagement before via the Tech Leads groups. 

Matt Weaver - [ will add from the recording ]

Olamide Kolawole - Something that's missing is the incentives - which can be defined clearly so that the Dev teams know by attending TC Meetings they will get the said incentives. Ensuring that the TC meeting consists of topics more relevant directly to the works of the Developers.

Maccabee Levine - Olamide's point is strong. Asking the Devs already joining or are willing to join about what they would like that TC needs to address from their prerspective

Olamide Kolawole - Issues like streamlining of re-building environments, having updated documentations, maintenance of vagrant boxes, etc. could be possible topic points

Marc Johnson - [ will add from the recording ]

Jeremy Huff - The topics which Olamide mentioned, it would be good if we could try to address them. There are some painful aspects of being a developer in FOLIO so it would be great if a few of those topics are pushed forward

Jenn Colt - Opening up a possibility to clear up some Wednesday slots and address a few of those topics with the Dev teams. Maybe hand over the topic selection to the Dev team.

Jeremy Huff - +1 to Jenn's Idea. Which types of mechanisms can be used to discuss about the topics.

Marc Johnson - The Tech Leads group was doing something which Jenn suggested but there was limited attendance and engagement. We can try that again or something else to achieve something similar. But coming back to Olamide's incentive suggestions, that seems like a good way to go.

Jeremy Huff - As TC we might be able to get people together to facilitate a change.

Maccabee Levine - taking one Wednesday meeting a month dedicated for the developer teams to come and discuss about topics that can be added to the queues

Marc Johnson - previous experience has proved difficult to gather participation from the dev teams in such meetings

Olamide Kolawole - Even in some dev team meetings, participation is a challenge. Like the idea about having a developer advocate involved.

Maccabee Levine - Agrees with Olamide about the benefits of having a Developer Advocate on board and involved.

Jeremy Huff - Timeline of when the Developer Advocate is getting on boarded?

Jenn Colt - The offer is being discussed and will be made soon.