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November 20, 2024 - December 3, 2024

Sprint 113 Summary

Summary

Highlights

In this sprint, our team successfully completed a range of initiatives focused on enhancing system performance, improving security, and refining user experience. Key highlights included:

  • Application Health Monitoring:
    • Migrated the PLG stack to production, ensuring greater stability and reliability.
  • Operations & Maintenance:
    • Conducted a comprehensive audit of backend logging to prevent the exposure of sensitive information.
    • Delivered a service blueprint to optimize user workflows and reporting processes.

Roadmap Progress

[OMITTED] This will be included in future sprint summaries.

Tasks

User Experience Improvements

TaskValue PropositionStatus
#3155 - [Spike] Prioritized ErrorsEstablishes a technical strategy that ensures STT users can consistently access error reports, regardless of parser error count, while improving backend performance and UX without halting parsing.QASP REVIEW
#2137 - Update footer designs to address additions like vulnerability disclosureStreamlines the footer's HTML structure by consolidating all links into a single list element, improving maintainability and ensuring consistency across the layout without impacting the visual presentation.RAFT REVIEW
#2217 - As a 'Data Analyst', I would like to only view sections that need submissionEnhances the user experience for STT Data Analysts by displaying only relevant sections for data submission, reducing confusion and increasing efficiency by hiding unnecessary sections they do not need to interact with.RAFT REVIEW

Improved Developer Tooling

TaskValue PropositionStatus
#1786 - As a developer, I want linters to run automatically before git pushAutomates the linting and secret checks during the commit process, ensuring code quality and preventing sensitive data from being pushed to repositories, thereby enhancing security and consistency in development workflows.RAFT REVIEW
#3223 - Automate buildpack states via TerraformEnhances the team's ability to manage and track CloudFoundry deployments more effectively, improving state visibility, reducing unnecessary redeployments, and ensuring better control over infrastructure, while maintaining seamless integration with CircleCI and updating relevant documentation.IN PROGRESS & MOVED TO NEXT SPRINT

FRA Reporting Requirements MVP

TaskValue PropositionStatus
#3267 - FRA Research RecruitmentEnsures the efficient and organized tracking of research recruitment, enabling timely communication with targeted participants and documenting any changes to recruitment criteria, ultimately supporting the successful execution of FRA research sessions.IN PROGRESS & MOVED TO NEXT SPRINT

Application Health Monitoring

TaskValue PropositionStatus
#3222 - PLG Production MigrationMoved the PLG stack from the development environment to production, ensuring that both dev and staging apps remain observable while providing a more robust and scalable monitoring setup in production.COMPLETE
#3254 - AlertManager Cloud.govEnsures that Alertmanager is successfully deployed to production, enabling efficient monitoring, management, and silencing of alerts, while providing accessible alert management functionality for administrators and developers across all environments.QASP REVIEW
#3243 - Promtail PipelinesEnhances the Grafana logging dashboard by implementing Promtail pipelines to extract and enrich log metadata (such as log level, message, and app name), enabling more powerful and flexible querying of logs in Grafana.RAFT REVIEW

Operations & Maintenance

TaskValue PropositionStatus
#3224 - Audit LoggerEnsured that no personally identifiable information (PII) or sensitive data is logged to the console, enhancing security and compliance with privacy regulations.COMPLETE
#3230 - [Design Deliverable] Service BlueprintProvided a clear visual map of Yun's data and reporting workflows, enabling us to identify gaps, validate user needs, and improve the TDP and DIGIT's reporting processes through informed design and research. Keeping the blueprint up-to-date will be an acceptance criteria (AC) for changes that impact the data flow moving forward, aiming to improve the accuracy of the documentation over time. COMPLETE
#3278 - Revise Validation Logic for TANF Active Case Items 27, 29, 26AIII, and 32DResolves unnecessary error messages for STTs by updating the validation logic to correctly accept a value of 0, ensuring smoother data submission and reducing confusion or incorrect rejections of valid entries.QASP REVIEW
#1337 - As a sys owner, I want to be emailed when sys admin permissions have been assigned.Ensures that Lauren is notified via email whenever a "System Admin" role is assigned or unassigned, improving auditing capabilities and enhancing oversight of critical user role changes.RAFT REVIEW
#3316 - v 3.7.5 Release Notes and Knowledge Center UpdatesEnsures STTs receive timely and accurate release notes via both the TDP portal and email, improving communication, transparency, and user understanding of recent updates and changes.IN PROGRESS & MOVED TO NEXT SPRINT
#1577 - Upgrade react-scripts to 5.0Ensures that the project is using the latest stable versions of react-scripts and file-type, addressing potential breaking changes and improving overall stability and functionality while maintaining compatibility and compliance with modern standards.IN PROGRESS & MOVED TO NEXT SPRINT

Regional Staff Access to TDP

TaskValue PropositionStatus
#3249 - As regional staff, I want to be able to see the status of my STTs submissions and view their error reports.Empowers regional staff with the ability to directly access submission statuses and error reports for their regions, reducing delays and the central office's workload, while improving overall transparency and efficiency in managing STT data submissions.IN PROGRESS & MOVED TO NEXT SPRINT