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title: VHA ART Engineering Sync

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# VHA ART Engineering Sync
_A recurring session to address any current engineering related issues, questions or concerns; as well as a platform to further our collective learning whenever possible._

_Currently set to occur the second Monday of every sprint._
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# Agenda: 2024-08-05

## Discussion Items
    
### 1. Al's Presentation - Engineering Best Practices
- Ref: [Engineering Refinement - HackMD](https://hackmd.io/uM3DM9t3Syu9-2Hpxtfc4g?view)
- Scope of discussion, how in-depth do we get from a technical perspective?
Programming technical refinements involve discussions and activities aimed at improving code quality, performance, maintainability, and scalability.


### Review
* None
### Show & tell
* None
### Notes
* 

### Action Items
* 

### Attendees
* Brandon, Robert (Notetaker), Sean, Prajwal, Clay, Tyler, Alwan, ~~Jonathan~~(Internet issue) Jay, Dilyara

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# Agenda: 2024-07-22

## Discussion Items
    
### 1. Remands as SC Fix Work Progress and New Schema
- Discussion and updates (Robert)
- Review of initial PR (Sean)

### 2. Views and Materialized Views in Rails & Postgres 
- Overview of the difference & pros/cons; especially with regard to Remands work & requirements (https://hackmd.io/@robertpierce/HkUELbndR)

### 3. Al's Questions re: ?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Brandon was just gonna cancel protest after all or they canceling we have a make
### Review
* None
### Show & tell
* None
### Notes
* 

### Action Items
* 

### Attendees
* Alec, Brandon, Robert (Notetaker), Sean, Prajwal, Clay, Tyler, Alwan, Jonathan

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# Agenda: 2024-07-08

## Discussion Items
    
### 1. Engineering Refinement 
- An Overview of the do's and dont's [OverView](https://hackmd.io/uM3DM9t3Syu9-2Hpxtfc4g?view)

### 2. ASR-335 Saved search - change history - Technical Refinement 
- Presenting a Technical OverView of our upcoming work. [Saved Search](https://hackmd.io/vtnhvgX1RKS4FOYEsd5Jqg)

### 3. Remands as SC SMR as we stand
- We will adjust the solutioning to remove the DOO & DTA items from changing or migrating during our Remands feature work.


### Review
* None
### Show & tell
* None
### Notes
* 

### Action Items
* 

### Attendees
* Alec, ~~Brandon~~, Robert (Notetaker), Sean, Prajwal, Clay, Tyler, Alwan, Jonathan

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# Agenda: 2024-05-28

## Discussion Items
    
### 1. Saved Search Solutioning Review and Estimation Rubric
- Estimation Rubric: https://boozallen.sharepoint.com.mcas.ms/:x:/r/teams/VABID/appeals/_layouts/15/Doc.aspx?sourcedoc=%7B798680a2-55d1-4abc-af36-0923ce256e8b%7D&action=edit&wdPreviousSession=0251ded2-8559-f245-966d-5520f3691105
- 4+1: https://app.mural.co/t/bahdigitalexperience6902/m/bahdigitalexperience6902/1714400608583/33865183474ea6f5734947c5eea33d94da63cb0b?fromVisitorModal=true&sender=u50c440590af49e319da38154
- Al's Technical Writeup: https://hackmd.io/@alatbah24/ryB3toQXC


### Review
* None
### Show & tell
* None
### Notes
* 

### Action Items
* 

### Attendees
* Alec, ~~Brandon~~, Robert (Notetaker), Sean, Prajwal, Clay, Tyler, Alwan, Jonathan
* 
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# Agenda: 2024-06-10

## Discussion Items
    
### 1. Fixing Al's Development Environment & Coordinating his story 
- Al's working on advanced troubleshooting; currently reinstalling `rbenv` and ruby versions
- Al will coordinate with Jonathan to continue work on his ticket during his downtime due to his dev system not being available.

### 2. Update on current feature work estimates from team members
- No change in current sentiment that feature work will be completed by end of first week of Sprint 5

### 3. Update from Robert on the path forward for Remands as SC SMR
- We will adjust the solutioning to remove the DOO & DTA items from changing or migrating during our Remands feature work.


### Review
* None
### Show & tell
* None
### Notes
* 

### Action Items
* 

### Attendees
* Alec, ~~Brandon~~, Robert (Notetaker), Sean, Prajwal, Clay, Tyler, Alwan, Jonathan

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# Agenda: 2024-05-28

## Discussion Items
    
### 1. Saved Search Solutioning Review and Estimation Rubric
- Estimation Rubric: https://boozallen.sharepoint.com.mcas.ms/:x:/r/teams/VABID/appeals/_layouts/15/Doc.aspx?sourcedoc=%7B798680a2-55d1-4abc-af36-0923ce256e8b%7D&action=edit&wdPreviousSession=0251ded2-8559-f245-966d-5520f3691105
- 4+1: https://app.mural.co/t/bahdigitalexperience6902/m/bahdigitalexperience6902/1714400608583/33865183474ea6f5734947c5eea33d94da63cb0b?fromVisitorModal=true&sender=u50c440590af49e319da38154
- Al's Technical Writeup: https://hackmd.io/@alatbah24/ryB3toQXC


### Review
* None
### Show & tell
* None
### Notes
* 

### Action Items
* 

### Attendees
* Alec, ~~Brandon~~, Robert (Notetaker), Sean, Prajwal, Clay, Tyler, Alwan, Jonathan


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# Agenda: 2024-05-13

## Discussion Items

### 1. Dynatrace Access and Response
* [Mike Finneran's Dynatrace Spreadsheet](https://boozallen.sharepoint.com/:x:/r/teams/VABID/appeals/_layouts/15/Doc.aspx?sourcedoc=%7B3F3CF533-9C54-4DA0-B83C-A7EF0094CD80%7D&file=Metrics_List.xlsx&nav=MTZfVmlldzFfezJDRkM2MzU3LUJBNkUtNDg1MC1BQzQwLUYzMzA1MUE5OTYzM30&action=default&mobileredirect=true&isSPOFile=1)
* [Access Request in YourIT](https://yourit.va.gov/va?id=sc_cat_item&sys_id=3a3a86891b9e3910e013eca8624bcb1e&cat_id=5def0ce81b352850a25d0d08ec4bcba7&catalog_id=1e105b9c1b062010a25d0d08ec4bcb03) ([Instructions](https://confluence.devops.va.gov/display/VAExternal/Dynatrace+Access+and+Overview))
* [Dynatrace University](https://university.dynatrace.com/ondemand/course/40091)
* [Udemy Dynatrace Course](https://bah.udemy.com/course/dynatrace-learning-tutorial/)
    
### 2. Saved Search Data Structure Discussion

### 3. Recap of AOD Filter investigation


### Review
* None
### Show & tell
* None
### Notes
* 

### Action Items
* 

### Attendees
* Alec, Brandon, Robert (Notetaker), Sean, Prajwal, ~~Clay~~, Tyler, Alwan, Jonathan, Heather, Oluchi, Dilyara

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# Agenda: 2024-04-01

## Discussion Items

### 1. Update & Discussion of Remands as SC Solutioning situation

### 2. Discussion of Reassign cases to CAMO story ownership + tech debt rotation + available dev bandwidth devoted towards technical solutioning

### 3. Review of Al's Brown Bag Presentation


### Review
* None
### Show & tell
* None
### Notes
* 

### Action Items
* (Clay?) Create a bug ticket to write a script to pass on to the System Team to remediate the improperly closed issued problematic data. Test in UAT and possibly ProdTest. Ref original tickets: APPEALS-5034

### Attendees
* Alec, Brandon, Robert (Notetaker), Sean, Prajwal, Clay, Tyler, Alwan, Jonathan, Heather, Oluchi, Dilyara


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# Agenda: 2024-03-18

## Discussion Items

### 1. Review Clay's research task: https://jira.devops.va.gov/browse/APPEALS-41496 (per Heather)

### 2. Q&A / Lessons learned through Internal UAT attempt for SCT Appeals on Thurs/Friday. Tyler walkthrough SCT distribution on Saturn Demo env?

### Review
* None
### Show & tell
* None
### Notes
* 41496 Research Task:
    - Related: Stakeholders request to remove 7 day limit...?
    - Is remediation: user education or data migration effort?

### Action Items
* (Clay?) Create a bug ticket to write a script to pass on to the System Team to remediate the improperly closed issued problematic data. Test in UAT and possibly ProdTest. Ref original tickets: APPEALS-5034

### Attendees
* Alec, Brandon, Robert (Notetaker), Sean, Prajwal, Clay, Tyler, ~~Alwan~~, Jonathan, Heather, Oluchi, Dilyara

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# Agenda: 2024-03-04

## Discussion Items

### 1. Question: Has anyone NOT updated FACOLS dbs locally yet?
- [Updating FACOLS with MST PACT Table changes](https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/caseflow/wiki/Updating-FACOLS-with-MST-PACT-Table-changes)

### 2. How to Debug and Step-Through Rails Codebase
- Alwan ref. article: https://www.writesoftwarewell.com/how-to-debug-and-step-through-rails-source-code/

### 3. Question: What Postgres GUI Tool(s) are we using?
- Recommendations, Pros & cons
- pgAdmin (Prajwal, Jonathan, Alwan)
- TablePlus (Robert, ...)
- DBeaver (Sean)
- Ref: https://postgresapp.com/documentation/gui-tools.html

### 4. Merge conflict resolution strategies & techniques
Any go-to methodologies, tools and tactics?
- Sourcetree (Alwan) - Cool UI tool.

### 5. Workflow Questions: 
- `#TODO` comments during feature work. Carry over? 
- PR `DRAFT` setting until ready to review?

    
### Review
* None
### Show & tell
* None
### Notes
* 
### Action Items
* 
### Attendees
* Alec, Brandon, Robert (Notetaker), Sean, Prajwal, Clay, Tyler, Alwan, Jonathan



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## 2024-02-05
### Attendees
* Alec, Brandon, Sean, Prajwal, ~~Clay~~, Tyler, Alwan, Jonathan, Robert (Notetaker)
## 2024-03-04
### Attendees
* Brandon, Sean, Prajwal,Clay, Tyler, Alwan, Jonathan, Robert (Notetaker), Jay
### Agenda
#### Review
* Status of current tickets
* Current Blockers

#### Discussion
* Queue Tab CONSTANT Wierdness (Tyler)
* CAMO Bulk Assign Race Condition (Tyler)
* Investigate feasibility of refactoring MembershipRequest work for reusability (https://jira.devops.va.gov/browse/APPEALS-35631) (Robert)
    * HackMD Doc: https://hackmd.io/@robertpierce/HJ9ArHaq6

#### Show & tell
* 
#### Notes
* 
#### Action Items
- [ ] Solutioning tasks: Identify models and interactions (Requests model) 


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### 2024-01-22, 0900 CST
### Attendees
* Brandon
* Robert
* Sean
* Robert
* Clay
* Tyler
* Alwan
* Jonathan
### Note Taker
* Robert
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
        * Tyler:
            * Trying to figure out how to create ability to test work on https://jira.devops.va.gov/browse/APPEALS-35191 in the UI so Dillon/QA can test. Craig's input will be needed.
    * Titan
        * Alwan
            * Question about Code Climate tests passing in general and a few ticket failures specifically. Brandon will get with Alwan to review.
* Current Blockers
    * See Tyler's note above.
### Additional Notes
* Discussion of changing the time of this meeting to later in the day on Monday. Current timeslot is not ideal for several reasons.
### Show & tell
* Brief discussion of `git bisect` and Friday's Appeals Brown bag presentation on the topic.
### Action Items
- [ ] Tyler will DM Craig for help on SCT Distributions task. Will update Robert later today.
- [ ] Brandon will get with Alwan to review Code Climate failures
- [x] Robert will reschedule this Engineering Sync meeting to later in the day on the Monday of 2nd week of Sprint.
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### 11/27
### Attendees
* Brandon
* Sean
* Robert
* Clay
* Tyler
* Craig
### Note Taker
* Craig
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
        * Robert:
            * 
        * Tyler:
            * 
        * Brandon:
            * 
        * Sean:
            * 
    * Titan
        * Clay:
            * 
        * Prajwal:
            * 
        * Alwan
            * 
* Current Blockers?
### Additional Notes
* 
### Show & tell
* 
### Action Items
- [ ] 
---
### 11/13
### Attendees
* 
### Note Taker
* 
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
        * Tyler:
            * 31550/31553/31178 Queries and service
        * Brandon:
            * 30942 Facility selection
        * Sean:
            * 30941 Personnel selection
        * Robert
            * 30939 Issue Type selection
    * Titan
        * Clay:
            * 
        * Prajwal:
            * 30889 Timing specification
        * Alwan
            * 
* Current Blockers?
### Additional Notes
* 
### Show & tell
* 
### Action Items
- [ ] Craig- App width with UX
---
### 10/16
### Attendees
* Craig
* Robert
* Brandon
* Sean
* Prajwal
* Tyler
* Clay
* Alwan
* Jay
### Note Taker
* Craig
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
        * Tyler:
            * 31182 Controller routes/methods to process CSV
            * 31068 Add keys to Noncomp
                * refactored the entire store
        * Brandon:
            * 30242 Generate Task Report page
            * 30243 Button to go to above page
        * Sean:
            * 31071 New DB column "decision_date_added_at"
    * Titan
        * Clay:
            * 28453 Banner for non-admin users
        * Prajwal:
            * 28392 Disable Edit Issues button for non-admin users
            * 28454 Email routing and template creation (mid-sprint addition)
                * adding bold formatting may not be possible
        * Alwan
            * Onboarding
* Current Blockers?
### Additional Notes
* 
### Show & tell
* 
### Action Items
- [ ] 
---
### 9/18 Date
### Attendees
* Brandon
* Alec
* Tyler
* Clay
* Faraz
* Sean
* Craig
* Prajwal
* Dilyara
### Note Taker
* Brandon
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
        * Tyler:
            * 
        * Brandon:
            * 
        * Sean:
            * 
    * Titan
        * Clay:
            *  
        * Prajwal:
            *  
* Current Blockers?
* Reassign Cases to CAMO 4+1
    * Overview of 4+1 completed https://jira.devops.va.gov/browse/APPEALS-21854
    * https://app.mural.co/t/bahdigitalexperience6902/m/bahdigitalexperience6902/1694444271608/bf64fda29dc63e245c9a53eb395672c6a337316c?sender=b8b319fd-5cc4-46c9-8600-2f07fb32348c
    * We don't believe there are any instances where a user can edit an issue outside of the the appeal Edit Issues page. It would be nice to confirm this however
    * Discussin regarding routing issues for non-admin users
* Change History 4+1 
    * Discussion about how to best break up the tasks into different enablers
### Additional Notes
* 
### Show & tell
* 
### Action Items
- [ ] 
---
### 8/21
### Attendees
* Craig
* Tyler
* Brandon
* Sean
* Clay
* Jay
* Dilyara
### Note Taker
* Craig
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
        * Tyler:
            * 
        * Brandon:
            * 27985: Add test/stories for RemoveIssueModal
            * 24134: Flaky/skipped test in substitute_appellant_task_copy_spec.rb
                * removing test, see original PR for context
        * Sean:
            * 24145: Flaky/skipped test in establish_claim_spec.rb
    * Titan
        * Craig:
            * 27980: Add error handling to NightlySyncsJob
        * Clay:
            * 23709: Modify back end to accept new EIN field
            * 24156: Flaky/skipped test in login_spec.rb
        * Prajwal:
            * 17424: Add EIN field
            * 24131: Flaky/skipped test in token_spec.rb
* Discussing feature work with external integration or jobs. So we can create a regression test plan.    
* Current Blockers?
### Additional Notes
* 
### Show & tell
* NightlySyncsJob error handling
### Action Items
- [ ] 
---
### 7/24
### Attendees
* Alec
* Sean
* Prajwal
* Dilyara
* Clay
* Craig
* Tyler
* Jay
* Faraz
### Note Taker
* Craig
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
        * Tyler:
            * 19718 Incomplete tasks tab
                * businessline seeds in sanitized json files
        * Brandon:
            * 19548 Alert banner
        * Sean:
            * 19547 Optional decision date field

    * Titan
        * Craig:
            * 26096 Seed data
        * Clay:
            * 23398 POA description for VHA benefit types
        * Prajwal:
            * 23401 POA component on NonComp
* Discussing feature work with external integration or jobs. So we can create a regression test plan.    
* Postman
    * 404 result from bad UUID?
    * Contestable issues 404?
* Current Blockers?
    * Sean's research ticket; code to add?
### Additional Notes
* Selenium
### Show & tell
* 
### Action Items
- [x] Potential for moving BusinessLine seeds out of json files and into another seed file
    - [x] Create tech debt ticket (Craig)
- [x] Confirm POA component for VHA business line only (Craig)
---
### 6/26
### Attendees
* Alec
* Craig
* Faraz
* Dilyara
* Brandon
* Clay
* Sean
* Prajwal
* Tyler
### Note Taker
* Brandon
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
        * Tyler:
            * Picking up research task - 4 + 1
        * Lianna:
            * Picking up research task - 15378
        * Brandon:
            * Pairing on 4 + 1 tasks

    * Titan
        * Sean:
            * [APPEALS-24042](https://jira.devops.va.gov/browse/APPEALS-24042)
            * Has a current css fix, will reach out to UX to see if they approve
            * As long as the fix is approved we can add it in this release
        * Clay:
            * [APPEALS-24120](https://jira.devops.va.gov/browse/APPEALS-24120)
            * Fixing storybook error in demo
            * Component imports failing in build
            * Fix is now working in demo, there is a question about whether or not the assets in demo are prebuilt.
        * Prajwal:
            * [APPEALS-24058](https://jira.devops.va.gov/browse/APPEALS-24058)
            * APPEALS-24058 is in QA currently being worked on. Should be done by the end of day
    
* Current Blockers?
### Additional Notes
* There are some tasks that can be looked into in the tech debt backlog
### Show & tell
* 
### Action Items
- [ ] 
### Date 6/12/23
### Attendees
* Alec
* Craig
* Faraz
* Dilyara
* Brandon
* Clay
* Sean
* Prajwal
* Tyler
* Jay
### Note Taker
* Sean
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
        * Tyler:
            * APPEALS-23493
                * Putting on finishing touches, will be done soon
        * Brandon:
            * Working on getting enviroment setup, will be huddling today with team to get it working

    * Titan
        * Sean:
            * Working on adding code snippets and links to the wiki page for Decision Review Queue, should have a reviewable version on github by EOD.
        * Clay:
            *  Fixing a small issue with APPEALS-18739 and adding code snippets and links to the wiki page for Team Management.
            *  Team Management wiki page is not yet on Github and is still in a word document.
        * Prajwal:
            * APPEALS-22887, APPEALS-18694, APPEALS-18737 will have a PR up for it soon
    
* Current Blockers?
    * APPEALS-22887 is currently blocked by APPEALS-18739 but that will be merged in today and unblocked
### Additional Notes
* UAT data staging effort
* Wiki entry updates
* Brandon env setup issues
    * Sean and Brandon will huddle to work on the env setup issues
### Show & tell
* 
### Action Items
- [ ] 
---
### Date 5/30
### Attendees
* Clay
* Brandon
* Sean
### Note Taker
* 
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
        * Tyler: 3 Stories in flight (will add numbers when JIRA access is fixed)
            * Tix are in Code Review QA
        * Lianna:
            * APPEALS-16536
                * Redo BA/UX Review
            * APPEALS-16537
                * Testing
                * Goal for PR to go up on 5/31  
        * Brandon:
            * Sudo access
            * VA email granted 

    * Titan
        * Sean
            * APPEALS-18736 in QA
            * Working with Oluchi with decision review queue wiki documentation
         * Clay: 
             * APPEALS-18739 in QA
             * Researching Team Management for QA
    * Other
        * Faraz is OOO rest of week QA 
        * Titan's Stories can wait on QA
        * Saturn:
            * 16536 (after BA/UX Review can be merged)
            * 16535 (needs QA)
            * Touchbase with Alec and Jay re: reaching out to another QA person
* Current Blockers?
### Additional Notes
* 
### Show & tell
* 
### Action Items
- [ ] 
---
### Date 5/15/23
### Attendees
* Brandon
* Sean
* Prajwal
* Craig
### Note Taker
* Craig
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
    * Titan
        * 22152 Selenium Webdriver Error
        * 16531 URI.escape warning
        * 18693 Add menu navigation link
            * 18694 A/C met as well, including that in the PR review
    * Other
* Current Blockers?
### Additional Notes
* 15446 Decision Review Screen hotfix deploying to UAT today
* 22152 Selenium Webdriver error; potentially removing the offending test
### Show & tell
* 
### Action Items
- [ ] 
---
### 5/1
### Attendees
* 
### Note Taker
* Sean
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
        * Lianna - Has one last failing test to fix, has a plan to fix it, then PR will be ready. Has a PR to review after the story
        * Tyler - Finished up some research to enable future work, availible for new work
    * Titan
        * Sean - Working on adding a few more tests, then PR will be ready for review
        * Clay - 17253, is in QA. He will pick up reviewing Lianna's PR once it is ready and pick up an item from tech debt
        * Prajwal - Working on a bug ticket
    * Other
* Current Blockers?
### Additional Notes
* 
### Show & tell
* 
### Action Items
- [ ] 
---
### Date 4/17/23
### Attendees
* Jay
* Heather
* Tyler
* Sean
* Clay
* Lianna
* Faraz
* Prajwal
* Craig
### Note Taker
* Craig
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
        * 
    * Titan
        * [Task On Hold Modal](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-17252)
            * Clarification on A/C regarding error message that would appear for invalid hold times and what non-VHA users are using the modal
        * [Expanding Seed Data, Higher Level Reviews](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-19625)
            * Creating HLR's with claimants that are not VeteranClaimants
    * Other
* Current Blockers?
### Additional Notes
* 
### Show & tell
* 
### Action Items
- [ ] 
---
### Date 3/20/23
### Attendees
* 
### Note Taker
* Sean
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
        * No Blockers or issues on any in flight work
    * Titan
        * No Blockers or issues on any in flight work
        * APPEALS-15569: Feasibility of Standardization of Queue Functionality
            *  Consolidating the 'wiring' of the decision review for business lines and conventional queues is feasible
            *  Conventional queues have been built up over time and exceptions are thrown if a task associated with a claim reveiw is passed through the existing workflows. This could be resolved by decoupling the conventional queues from appeals and allow for tasks from all types of recision reviews to be handled
            *  LOE estimation: 1 team, 4 sprints with potentionally an additional sprint for regression testing (if not included in the 4th)
            *  Performing this would allow for us to invalidate some of the stories that have been created for APPEALS-4013, which would slightly lower the LOE for that feature sprint, by 1 team, ~1.5 sprints
    * Other
* Current Blockers?
### Additional Notes
* 
### Show & tell
* 
### Action Items
- [ ] 
___
## Sessions
### 3/6
### Attendees
* Lianna
* Tyler
* Alec
* Bhavani
* Matt
* Clay
* Sean
### Note Taker
* Lianna
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
        * [Team Management](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-9389)
            * Tyler
                * [APPEALS-13136](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-13136) VHA Business Line request approval and denial behavior
                * Need to gets some test files from 13118
                * Need to clear up some logic then should be good to go 
                * Added functionality may cover some criteria in other stories
                * Addressing an edge case
            * Bhavani
                * [APPEALS-13125](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-13125) Updates to existing team management page add/remove user functionality
                * Backend ok
                * Assistance with Frontend requested
            * Lianna
                * [APPEALS-13114](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-13114) Create ability to identify and notify first time users upon login
                * Blocker removed Friday; should be okay will reach out if additional assistance is needed
    * Titan
    
        * [VHA CAMO Return to Board Intake Task Action](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-9214)
            * Sean
                * [APPEALS-10354](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-10354) Specify Location of Documents in Docket Appeal Modal Body
                * Currently in research stage
    * Other
        * Matt
            * Discussion around adding a DB seeds requirement to applicable stories
            * Touch on how we'll be facilitating 508 testing moving forward
* Current Blockers?
### Additional Notes
* Factorybot Overview from Matt (looking at spec/factories/task.rb)
    * Using it to define how object is created
    * Discussed chaining factories
    * Factories helpful for creating multiple instances (rather than single instance)
    * Can be used in the rails console, etc.
    * Matt will post Factory Bot cheat sheet in Slack
    * Helps make 508 compliance testing easier (Faraz)
### Show & tell
* 
### Action Items
- Matt/Alec reference PCAFC example to go through and idenfitfy gaps related to 9214
### 2/21
### Attendees
* Faraz
* Lianna
* Tyler
* Alec
* Bhavani
* Matt
* Clay
* Sean
* Jay
### Note Taker
* Sean
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
        * [Team Management](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-9389)
            * Tyler
                * [APPEALS-13118](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-13118)
            * Lianna
                * [APPEALS-13114](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-13114)
            * Bhavani
                * [APPEALS-13123](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-13123)
    * Titan
        * [Return to Board Intake](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-9214)
            * Sean
                * [APPEALS-9097](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-9097)
            * Clay
                * [APPEALS-9098](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-9098)

    * Other

* Current Blockers?
### Additional Notes
* Tyler 
    * 13118 in progress, waiting on other stories to be done to wire them up together
* Lianna
    * 13114 is getting started and Lianna will have an update by the end of the day
* Bhavani
    * 13123 is blocked by a couple other stories but should be able to start work on it shortly
* Sean
    * 9097 is coming along, should be done in a couple days
* Clay
    * 9098 has a PR up for it
### Show & tell
* 
### Action Items
- [ ]
--- 
### 2/6
### Attendees
* Faraz
* Lianna
* Tyler
* Alec
* Bhavani
* Matt
* Clay
* Sean
### Note Taker
* Faraz
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
        * [Team Management](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-9389)
                
            * Tyler
                * [APPEALS-13120](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-13120)
                * [APPEALS-13115](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-13115)
            * Lianna
                * [APPEALS-13114](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-13114)
                * [APPEALS-13211](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-13211)
            * Bhavani
                * [APPEALS-13212](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-13212)
    * Titan
        * [Splitting VHA Issues](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-11721)
            * Sean
                * [APPEALS-13060](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-13060)
            * Clay
                * [APPEALS-13059](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-13059)

    * Other

* Current Blockers?
### Additional Notes
* Saturn 
- 13120 - Almost done 
- 13115 - Need to work through a few edge cases: VHA subgroups members are not members for the VHA business line.
- 13114 - Will begin soon 
- 13211 - Changes are almost done, error fixed in eng sync 
- 13212 - No blockers, currently being worked on 

* Titan
- 13060 - Currently researching, will begin soon
- 13059 - 


* Show & tell
    * Tyler
    * Matt
    * ???
### Action Items
- [ ] 
___
### 1/23
### Attendees
* Faraz
* Lianna
* Tyler
* Alec
* Bhavani
* Matt
* Clay
* Sean
* Prajwal
### Note Taker
* Matt
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
        * [Team Management](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-9389)
            * [APPEALS-13122](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-13122) Bhavani
            * [APPEALS-13168](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-13168) Tyler
            * [APPEALS-13211](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-13211) Lianna
    * Titan
        * [SSN Search capability](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-8160)
            * [APPEALS-13786](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-13786) Sean
            * [APPEALS-13693](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-13693) Clay
    * Other
        * [Pagination hotfix](https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/caseflow/pull/17952) Matt
* Current Blockers?
### Additional Notes
* Saturn statuses:
  * 13122: Bhavani will aim to have a pull request ready for review today.
  * 13168: Tyler has the baseline done. He will add a bit more polish to it in the meantime while he awaits 13122 to make it over the finish line.
  * 13211: Lianna will be embarking on this story once their laptop woes are sorted out.

* Titan statuses:
  * 13786: Sean has been researching his plan of attack regarding this story. He has requested confirmation for his research.
  * 13693: Clay has a PR up.

* 9653 ended up being more cumbersome than we had estimated due to CSS trickery.
* [FeatureToggle wiki page](https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/caseflow/wiki/Adding-a-Feature-Flag-with-FeatureToggle) is misleading for folks trying to learn how FTs works and how to implement them. It leads them to believe that they need to make changes to the appeals-deployment repo **first** when that isn't the reality.
* List of FeatureToggles on the wiki page are likely not up to date.
### Action Items
- [ ] Alec: document note taker section in template ahead of next sprint's session 
___
### 12/28
### Attendees
* Faraz
* Lianna
* Tyler
* Alec
* Bhavani
### Note Taker
* Alec
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Lianna
        * APPEALS-12481
            * PR has been reviewed, pending some feedback updates
            * Also needs to be merged into the combined pagination branch prior to final approval to ensure the functionality is working properly with our other changes
        * APPEALS-12530
            * Initial research has begun
    * Tyler
        * APPEALS-12467
            * Somewhat dependent on 12481
            * Also dealing with an edge case
                * Circumstances where the search for a claimant name returns a decision review where the search input actually matches the veteran name instead of the claimant
        * APPEALS-12466
            * Not yet begun, but is looking like a relatively low LOE
* Current Blockers?
### Additional Notes
* Bhavani awaiting PIV card but currently working with a PIV exemption, also still working through some React & Redux learning materials
### Action Items
- [ ] 
---
### 12/12
### Attendees
* Faraz
* Matt
* Lianna
* Tyler
* Alec
* Bhavani
* Clay
### Note Taker
* Matt
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * [APPEALS-12463](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-12463) (Tyler)
        * Rails/Arel query
    * [APPEALS-12483](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-12483) (Matt)
    * [APPEALS-12481](https://vajira.max.gov/browse/APPEALS-12481) (Lianna)
* Bhavani onboarding
* Clay onboarding
* Current Blockers?
### Additional Notes
* Goals for APPEALS-12463:
  - Figuring out if we need to account for if decision reviews have active request issues.
  - Figuring out which decision reviews we need to look for tasks to be associated with (legacy appeals?).
  - Ultimately eliminating the $N+1$ query in `in_progress_tasks`.
  - Tyler has gone above-and-beyond to formulate prototype queries that can be used to replace the `select` block within `in_progress_tasks` to offload the various conditionals to postgres.
* 12483 Progress:
  - Having to account for an additional serializer.
  - Will communicate with Lianna to coordinate on queue/utils.js
* 12481:
  - Lianna will be reaching out to Matt at some point to coordinate on queue/utils.js, and the meshing of 12481 and 12483.


### Action Items
- [ ] In the research document for APPEALS-12463, it would be helpful to touch on the CachedAppealService utilized in Caseflow Queue, and reasons for why we would not like to pursue the same approach in the decision review queues.
- [ ] Pair program if we have the bandwith.
---
### 11/28
### Attendees
* Faraz
* Matt
* Lianna
* Tyler
* Alec
* Bhavani
### Note Taker
* 
### Agenda
* Current Blockers?
    * Faraz dev steup
* Current status of Lianna's investigation
* Redux issue Matt & Tyler have been working through
### Notes
*  
### Action Items
* Lianna scheduling working session for decision review queue optimization either 11/28 or 11/29 depending on availability
--- 
### 11/15
### Attendees
* Faraz
* Matt
* Lianna
* Tyler
* Alec
### Note Taker
* 
### Agenda
* Current Blockers?
* Outcomes of Matt's investigation
* Outcomes of Tyler's investigation
### Notes
* Lianna still working through identifying VHA membership in Intake flow
* 
### Action Items

---
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## Meeting Template
### Date
### Attendees
* 
### Note Taker
* 
### Agenda
* Status of current tickets:
    * Saturn
        * Tyler:
            * 
        * Brandon:
            * 
        * Sean:
            * 
    * Titan
        * Clay:
            * 
        * Prajwal:
            * 
        * Alwan
            * 
* Current Blockers?
### Additional Notes
* 
### Show & tell
* 
### Action Items