2023 01-05 Meeting Notes

2023 01-05 Meeting Notes

Date

Jan 5, 2023

Attendees

  • @Margaret Mellinger (Unlicensed)

  • @Beth Shields (Unlicensed)

  • @Kenna Warsinske

  • @Christa Wright (Unlicensed)

  • @Michael Boock (Unlicensed)

  • @Tu Lam

  • @Sarah Imholt (Unlicensed)

  • @Ryan Ordway

  • @Ryan Wick (Unlicensed)

  • @Cara Key (Unlicensed)

  • @Brandon Straley (Unlicensed)

  • @David Manela (Unlicensed)

  • @Hui Zhang (Unlicensed)

Regrets

Corey Gillen, Marc Rempel

Goals

  • Agree on project goals for the next 6 months

  • Come to a shared understanding about product owners 

Agenda

Time

Item

Who

Notes

20 minutes 

Review a draft of projects for the next 6 months  - what's missing? Think about priorities and what resources we might need to be successful

Beth,

 

10 minutes

Discussion around assigning "product owners" or "application service managers"  to our various applications.  What does it mean to us to have someone in that role?  how  is it different from the technical lead?  

Margaret

Outcome-review the list for updates, contact the non-technical leads to let them know they are assigned.  Also think about reorganizing this page. 

10 minutes 

Discussion on meeting cadence. Question - should we move the department meeting to 1 or 2x per month? We already talked about adding local standups, and the infrastructure group meets regularly.  Are there other meetings that would be helpful?  Are there ways we might restructure our department meeting to make it more than a round-robin?  

All 

Keep a weekly meeting.  This is the social interaction time for the department.  Could we turn on our cameras? 

5 minutes 

We talked about changing our department name and the vote was for Library Information Technology. Still good?  If so, Margaret will announce to library and take the next steps. 

Margaret

Department Logo

10 minutes

LastPass conversation - should we change to Bitwarden or 1Pass or?  Change all passwords? Discuss a change process for passwords and decide how to implement it. 

All 

Ryan and Christa are investigating  HashiCorp's Vault

Change all passwords - in phases 

1) anything with web access 

2) others are set up with local access only and will be changed later

 

We should have documentation for how o update any passwords associated with each of our apps, and which ones have passwords shared. 

5 minutes 

Next steps, action items 

 

 

Action items

@Margaret Mellinger (Unlicensed) change the department name 
Beth and Margaret revisit application inventory
Change all passwords - this is a long process
Kenna will change the LP password 
Margaret will investigate Bitwarden and Keeper, Ryan and Christa will investigate HashiCorps Vault
Develop part of the disaster plan that identifies the process.  
Margaret will ask UIT peeps if they have any disaster plan