Role Assignment Bot

A slackbot to determine who will be the next iteration manager (or, scrum master, roster)

Also, suggest a better name! e.g. @scrumbot

Usecases

• Obtain the list of active members in a group and put it in the queue. @scrumbot init
• Determine who all are eligible to be scrum master.
  • Will be a manual process (with /!add or /!remove)
• Rotate among elgible active members biweekly / sprint duration.
  • Round Robin strategy seems applicable.
  • A reminder to the bot instead of scheduling it. /remind #channel "@scrumbot skip" for every other Friday at 6:00pm
• Change the description to edit the present scrum master.

Edge cases

Not handled yet!!

• What happens if sprint ends early? (1 week)
  • Find possibilities to obtain the exact sprint duration from JIRA. (can be too much of a hassle!!)
• What happens if an assignee wants to replace his/her duty with another member for the sprint?
  • How many times can he/she replace?
  • Need affirmations from both the assigned and the assignee.

Commands

• /!add @user1 @user2 ... = add user(s) eligible to be scrum master in a channel
• /!remove @user1 @user2 ... = remove user(s) eligible to be scrum master in a channel
• /!swap @user1 @user2 = swap user1's turn with user2 for one iteration
• /!view = show current scrum master, followed by others in line
• /!skip = pre-empt current scrum master's turn, and appoint the next eligible
• /!skip n = skip to the nth member

Schema

[
  channel_id:
  {
    members: [{
      name: 'srinjoy.santra',
      email: '',
      // .... basically how slack returns users.list data
    }

    ],
    current: 1
  },
  channel_id2:
]

Deployment

Feel free to join my Slack workspace and test out the bot in #test channel