Agile services

Our agile services support our ScrumC process, and our OKRs.

Roadmap

Because GitLab isn’t optimal to view all OKRs, we’ve built our own web-based Roadmap to visualise them. It helps us to see:

• When we want to achieve something

• Where we’ve probably over-committed (i.e. too many OKRs in one date range)

• Who’s in charge of a specific OKR

• Who’s probably overloaded (i.e. too many OKRs on one person)

Retro tool box

Our Retro tool box is a dashboard for our Retrospective, which pulls the following data from GitLab:

• Stale branches, which should be deleted (i.e. merged but not removed, or long unmerged)

• Open merge requests, which need attention, or have grown idle

• Unfinished stories, which are still planned, or in doing

• Flagged stories (e.g. ad-hoc stories), which landed during the sprint

• Old issues, which have been open for too long

Noddl

Noddl is our in-house developed, collaborative huddle notes tool for our team Retrospective, and any other meeting or workshop where we collect ideas together. It’s responsible for:

• Boards: Create boards, optionally split into areas (e.g. «went well» & «to improve»)

• Notes: Add coloured sticky notes, and arrange them on the board

• Collaboration: Work on a board together in real-time

• Guests: Invite guests without an account, e.g. customers in a workshop