fixing a security group ingress issue in an AWS CDK-based pipeline + ECS
Migrate an infrastructure repo from AWS CDK v1 to v2 and refactor the VPC setup in it
Work on Redis migration in Terraform-based setup
Perhaps start to look at migrate/import some infrastructure (from AWS CDK & CloudFormation) into Pulumi as a proof of concept. Probably not this week though.
There is a lot of migrating in your week, @eriklz - what's your preferred method to stay on top of your project progress when you have multiple projects taking place simultaneously?
I try to do a brief planning in the beginning of each week, and try to allocate some time slots for each task - with time to spare. I check on priorities/impact if I do not know them already.
That may sometimes be a challenge, since there may be stakeholders which have nothing to do with each other.
I am using Todoist to keep track of tasks for myself, since reporting/tracking of each task may also be in different systems (for different customers).
Also, I am using Obsidian for some general note-keeping for myself as well.
Thank you for sharing! Very helpful to read your breakdown.
How long do you find your planning takes you? I've tried to implement weekly planning multiple times over the past few years and I've found I can completely overthink it to a point where I realize I'm still planning my week halfway through Monday afternoon!
Maybe 20-30 minutes at most.
But it is not starting from scratch really, I try to apply the Getting Things Done methodology and I add new tasks along the way continuously, also do a brief of tasks at the end of the week. So the planning part is mostly a somewhat quick check on priorities and fairly rough estimate, and where the focus should be.
Things will certainly change and new items pop up anyway, so does not help to overdo it. :-)
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There is a lot of migrating in your week, @eriklz - what's your preferred method to stay on top of your project progress when you have multiple projects taking place simultaneously?
I try to do a brief planning in the beginning of each week, and try to allocate some time slots for each task - with time to spare. I check on priorities/impact if I do not know them already.
That may sometimes be a challenge, since there may be stakeholders which have nothing to do with each other.
I am using Todoist to keep track of tasks for myself, since reporting/tracking of each task may also be in different systems (for different customers).
Also, I am using Obsidian for some general note-keeping for myself as well.
Thank you for sharing! Very helpful to read your breakdown.
How long do you find your planning takes you? I've tried to implement weekly planning multiple times over the past few years and I've found I can completely overthink it to a point where I realize I'm still planning my week halfway through Monday afternoon!
Maybe 20-30 minutes at most.
But it is not starting from scratch really, I try to apply the Getting Things Done methodology and I add new tasks along the way continuously, also do a brief of tasks at the end of the week. So the planning part is mostly a somewhat quick check on priorities and fairly rough estimate, and where the focus should be.
Things will certainly change and new items pop up anyway, so does not help to overdo it. :-)