RN Program View - larralapid/finds GitHub Wiki

RN program View for Shared Understanding:

Timeline & Release Status

  • 1.4 Release targeted for end-January 2025
  • 1.3.2 Release completed November 4th, 2024
  • 1.5 Release planning in progress for April 2025
  • 1.4.1 remaining features completion + hotfix being considered for critical issues - Feb 2025

Organizational Changes

  • Transition of engineering teams to India/Philippines
  • New leadership team established (Jason & Nandita) Now changing to (Jason & Jeffson)
  • Formation of 3 PM PODs aligned to product areas:
    1. Data Input & Integration
    2. Insights & Visualizations
    3. Expert Knowledge/Virtual Agent

Key Process Issues

  1. Requirements Flow:
  • Different approaches to requirements documentation across PODs
  • Late engineering engagement in feature planning
  • Design team role confusion between UI/UX and functional specs
  1. Planning & Estimation:
  • Insufficient early technical input
  • Challenges with capacity planning across teams
  • Difficulty balancing new features vs technical debt
  1. Release Management:
  • UAT process needs improvement
  • Defect management process not standardized
  • Regression testing coverage concerns

Current Team Structure

  • 3 Product Managers
  • 4 Product Owners (1 leaving in December)
  • ~90 people in engineering/QA
  • Distributed team across US, Europe, India, Philippines
  • Significant time zone challenges impacting collaboration

Achievements

  • First client (Church) successfully onboarded
  • Two on-time releases in FY24
  • Product Management PODs implementation

Critical Needs

  1. Technical partnership model with engineering
  2. Standardized ways of working across PODs
  3. Clear roles/responsibilities in the release process
  4. Improved release/roadmap planning process
  5. Better tracking/reporting mechanisms