Goal: 

• Our team is getting more comfortable with the time-based release cadence, and I believe we can now focus on automating or streamlining the effort we put into z-stream releases.

Acceptance Criteria:

• z-stream process analyzed
• Process streamlined as much as possible.  Determine what we will keep as is, change, discontinue or automate
• Tasks created in Jira to track what can be automated (if extended time needed to complete the automation)

Z stream Process Tasks to Analyze:

• Release schedule updates in Smartsheets for PP (Keep)
• Send out communications for shipped/delayed.  (Keep)
• Version Report for upcoming zstream releases (Keep)
• PP weekly status updates.  Does anyone in OpenStack look at these updates or will program doc updates suffice? (Keep/Discontinue/Automate?)
• Reviewing, following up, and managing the Jira Release Criteria dashboard (Keep/Discontinue/Automate?) 
• FIB, On Errata, Jira status.  Do we continue nagging teams to check there issues or have issues miss the release because of bad Jira data or missing/incorrect FIB?
• Critical Gaps bugs.  Do we want to make sure critical gaps are fixed in the release or have a plan?  Or not necessary for z streams? Or pus responsibility on POs/SMs? 

• Provide milestones in the program doc or just link to a smartsheet calendar (Keep/Discontinue/Automate?  Possibly automatic calendar)
• Follow up on critical gaps and untriaged bugs for zstream releases (Keep/Discontinue/Automate?)
• Track issues on the Blocker and Exception Board (Keep.  Figure out how to automate or streamline for quicker turnaround)
• Following up with the requestor to answer initial questions on the newly created ticket. (Automate? Jira Slack integration?)
• Following up with the CORE team to approve/reject the request. (Discontinue.  Enforce SLA for CORE team or POs?)
• Following up if additional information is needed for CORE or the requestor. (Discontinue.  Enforce SLA?  Stricter criteria in request?)
• Tracking the request to completion. (Discontinue.  Enforce SLA?  Stricter criteria in request?  Open issues called out in CORE or PO meeting?)
• Setting the bug/feature to approved or rejected (Keep. Should this be done by PO now?).

• Should we think about a RACI to help new POs/SMs and ultimately improve Jira hygiene?