2026-01-06 Product/Community Team

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Agenda

• Admin
  • Agency Product / Community committee presentation schedule
  • TRB Lunch
  • Zephy Impactful Research Award
• Phase 11B Task Status Confirmation and Next Steps
  • CS
    • Consolidated Error Definitions (Issue #692) DONE
    • Trace files from the same run should have hash identifier (Issue #899) AWAITING REVIEW
    • Clean Up Command Prompt Logging (Issue #408) DONE (only for non-Sharrow?)
  • Driftless
    • SANDAG Sharrow Performance Optimization (Issue #38) AWAITING REVIEW / TESTING BY SANDAG?
  • RSG
    • Consistent Alternatives File Formatting (Issue #846) UNDER REVIEW
    • Trip Scheduling Choice Reproducible Random (Issue #891) AWAITING REVIEW
    • Fix Shadow Price Zones Reopening (Issue #820) NEED TEST
  • WSP
    • UV Testing and Users Guide (Issue #995) ADDITIONAL ROUND COMPLETE? AWAITING REVIEW?
    • Global Option to Skip Households If Choice Simulation Fails (Issue #892) AWAITING REVIEW
    • Example SANDAG Model Update (Issue #34) AWAITING REVIEW / TESTING BY SANDAG?
• Product / Community Team Discussion Follow Up
  • Responsibilities
    • Feature requirements development
    • Coordination with the executive team
    • Invoice review
    • Deliverable review?
    • Roadmap updates?
    • GitHub issue management?
  • Coordination approach
    • Insufficient time during meetings
    • Additional meetings?
    • Asynchronous coordination?
  • Consultant membership / participation
  • Potential solutions
    • Executive team conduct intensive review of team structures and responsibilities post-TRB
    • Empower team leaders with executive authority for routine decisions?
    • Implement co-leader decision-making for straightforward issues?
    • Escalate complex or ambiguous issues to full team discussion?
    • Recognize that ActivitySim's issue volume (approximately 10 per month) doesn't require intensive administrative infrastructure
    • Document decision / process flow
• Testing Policies and Strategies
• All Hands Meeting Rebranding and Policy