Intro

• How do we make DU work?

• UB, a strong organization vs. a project host/umbrella

• Different perspectives

Possible outcome of seminar 

• Shared understanding of current situation 

• Ideas how to rebalance projects vs. shared resources/infrastructure 

• Concrete plans for development at DU

Problem

• Planning is usually project based 

• Everything "not-project"-based is (more or less) unorganised 

• Non-project infrastructure could enable more efficient project

  • They could already be essential for projects!

Discussion: the current situation

• What does or does not work for you?
• What are the daily or recurring painpoints?
• What makes a good day at work?

Shared objectives?

• What do we mean by “shared”? 

  • Shared responsibility? 

  • Keeping track of development and maintenance? 

  • Active support? 

• Essentials vs. Nice-to-have 

Shared infrastructure?

• Search cluster

• Goobi?

• API-layer + services

  • Lemmatization

  • Glossary service

• Ansible roles, images etc?

• Accessibility resources/testing etc.

• Monorepo

• Framework for user feedback 

• Utilities (e.g. NPM packages, XML-lib)

Shared organizational objectives?

• How can we support shared resources?

  • Responsibility?

  • Dev cycles?

  • Testing? 

• Shared resources should be in shared, tidy spaces

• Relationship between developers and project members

• Define relationship with IT, what services can they provide? Sometimes unclear and even unstable

• How to make better use of the meetings and standups