June 2021 Training Team Sprint

The Training team is using the Sprint method to determine what we are working on and to determine our timeframe for delivery.

What is a Sprint?

[Sprints] are fixed length events of one month or less to create consistency. A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.

https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-is-a-sprint-in-scrum

Sprint Content on Learn Goals (Lesson Plans)

Theme: How to contribute to the WordPress Project with screenshots and videos (guidelines for how content within screenshots and videos appear).

Think about these with as much consideration toward accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) as possible.

Ideally, these guidelines could be adopted by other teams as well, turned into a video series of workshops, and help onboard others into several parts of the project. Additionally, it lifts needing to maintain this from our team handbook into content on Learn.

• Sample content – Theme Unit Test Data, GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc.
  https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ Blocks Data, Monster WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. https://trello.com/c/ofOe6QHm/286-sample-content @cousett
• Annotation options https://trello.com/c/nl4zLyUP/287-screenshot-video-annotation-options @cousett
• Zooming in, how to crop for enough focus and context, aspect ratios https://trello.com/c/D3QRGfGd/288-image-video-focus-best-practices @courane01
• When to use browser dev tools inspector to override some information (hiding your name) https://trello.com/c/mP9fKgAv/289-use-browser-dev-tools-to-anonymize-info
• Researching what work other teams have started (researching what Docs and Marketing have gathered) before writing content https://trello.com/c/UIbXLqhu/290-what-other-teams-have-found
• How to Configure WordPress installation for Contributor and Developer Testing – @paaljoachim  and @sarmstead (needs team review) https://trello.com/c/K8EsqWjO/291-how-to-configure-wordpress-installation-for-contributor-and-developer-testing

Sprint Functionality of Learn Goals

• Continue Slides pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. proposal after Learn Working Group consideration
  • https://make.wordpress.org/training/2021/01/29/request-for-testing-slides-plugin/
  • GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue updated: https://github.com/WordPress/learn/issues/127#issuecomment-791417404
• Style a print-friendly style sheet (transcripts and lesson plans)
  • https://github.com/WordPress/learn/issues/155
  • https://github.com/WordPress/learn/issues/186
  • https://github.com/WordPress/learn/issues/148
• Use a blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. layout in a page to create much of the lesson plan page organization https://github.com/WordPress/learn/issues/153
• Coordinate about audit tool feature request with Docs and other relevant teams

Sprint Team Functionality Goals

• Team Contributor Roles
  • Align description to align with The Five Stages of Contribution. See Observations on WordPress Contributor Team Structure – with support from @andreamiddleton
  • Tie some contributor roles to user roles or levels of content access on Learn – Customized User Access roles
• Training Handbook published ( @azhiyadev has this mostly done with great feedback from @webcommsat)
• Support Learn Handbook (already somewhat live thanks to @camikaos)
• Publish initial draft for Brand guidelines, seeking specific feedback. (awaiting further input with #Marketing)
• Conduct a retrospective on the previous sprint.

Stakeholders Meeting

We missed our goal for February on planning a meeting to kick off stakeholders meetings. These would be cross-team collaboration in the organization of our goals. Ideas have included:

• Learn Functionality
  • Automattic sponsored contributors to Learn
• Content Planning
  • Release squad
  • Marketing
  • Docs