Main developers and product owners that will build the GOOS/EOOS digital Technical Support System gathered in NOC offices to launch the AMRIT Scrum Team’s developments. We are open for your contributions, to review our developments and also be part of it!
The first week of November was an important step forward for the project, as it kicked off the IT developments that will be at the heart of the project for the next 42 months. Developers and product owners for the future EOOS Technical Support Center gathered in NOC, Liverpool to set up the foundations enabling these developments.
In Europe and beyond, a number of developers work quite isolated at national level on observing system data, metadata and monitoring tools. There is a large amount of duplication of efforts. AMRIT scrum team will regroup some of these developers in a pool to improve efficiency, synergies, share expertise, code base and contribute to a larger objective of integrated services and tools for observing system operators and governance.
AMRIT will use the SCRUM AGILE method, developing bricks of code during sprints with few developers from the SCRUM pool of developers. The pool is a group of IT engineers from the different partners involved on this projects’ tasks in France, UK, Norway, Italy. This method will allow for common development, which provides one more step towards integration and collaboration. This method also has the benefits of providing increments at the end of each sprint that are reviewed to ensure that the progress is in-line with the needs and specifications.
This meeting set up the methodology, tools, processes and developing platform and the first 2-week sprint started right after to create the community sharing platform. Time was also dedicated to refine the specification of the tools to be developed and build team culture.
Planned developments include an operational, analytical and strategic web based dashboard for ocean observing system operators and a mobile application to support operators in the field. Development bricks, widgets, modules and boards, will be reusable in many national contexts, and continuously improved, including after the AMRIT project.
“This trivial concept of collective IT developments kicked off in Liverpool may have a historical dimension in the global ocean observation context. We will see in a few years if this works out, but all ingredients of the recipe are in place for success, including the motivation of a talented new generation of IT developers, well decided to work together” said M. Belbéoch, leader of AMRIT technical work packages.
If you are willing to be part of the process and dedicate a small amount of time and effort to ensure that what we develop answers your needs, you are more than welcome to join! You can either develop with us, share, integrate and value some developments made, and join the scrum team, or be there as a stakeholder and reviewer. Contact Yves Poncon yves.poncon@locean.ipsl.fr in ARMINES us to find out more.