Background Basics

What is Amphora Ops?

Amphora Ops holds the organisation's work in one place and fills in what really happened from our own systems.

What does Amphora Ops hold?

Amphora Ops holds the organisation (units, positions and their holders), its processes, its projects with milestones and tasks, and the decisions asked to people. A holder can be a person, an AI bot, a service or an outside party.

Sources:Amphora Ops specification

Where do its facts come from?

From what happens in our own systems: messages between the team's bots and people (only who, when and to whom, never the text), code changes, test runs and status updates. Every change is kept as an event, so the history stays.

Times are measured only between real events. Where an event is missing, Amphora Ops shows instead of a guess.

Sources:Amphora Ops specification

Can I change something on the web?

No. The web views are read-only: nothing you click changes data. Changes come from the team's work itself, and from plain-language requests in the team's channel, which the bots record.

Sources:Amphora Ops specification and acceptance checks

Which view answers which question?

ViewQuestion it answers
OrgWho holds which position, and since when?
Main processWhere does work wait between need and live?
ProcessesWhich processes do we have, and what is still missing from each?
ServicesWhich services do we offer?
BoardHow does each project and release stand?
DecisionsWhat is asked of whom?
Sources:Amphora Ops specification and acceptance checks