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Executive Summary ​

  • Major platform sprint landed: SXSW jumped +85 stories week-over-week (377/846, 45%) after clearing the review backlog—exactly as predicted. Velocity is strong. The apparent +134 scope growth is a tracking maturity improvement, not requirements churn (see below).
  • BU boards show real activity: CESW +2, W1DA +3, ECMDSW +4 stories completed with healthy in-progress pipelines (39, 20, 11 respectively). Tracking visibility problem solved.
  • Arrow core streams still frozen: Graph (51/63) and Frontend (376/426) show zero ticket movement for fourth week despite active repository commits—work is happening on BU boards instead.
  • Staging restart planned: BU Shopware environments intentionally paused — targeting mid-July for staging, mid-August for production. Not a blocker.
  • Infrastructure closes gap: +2 stories (80/101, 79%) with active Homans migration work (1/8) finally starting.

1. Shopware Platform - SXSW Initiatives ​

Current State: 377/846 stories complete (45%)

Week-over-Week: +85 stories completed, +134 apparent scope expansion (vs. +17 stories/+4 scope last week)

The massive story completion surge validates last week's prediction—the 81-item review backlog cleared. The +134 scope increase is not requirements churn—it's a tracking maturity improvement. The team promoted subtasks to stories and stories to epics for better visibility:

  • 14 new BU environment epics (SXSW-945–979) created for Staging + Production setup across all 7 BUs
  • SXSW-902 (Shopware Core Functionality) added with sub-stories
  • Together these account for 126 of the 134 "new" stories—118 of which are in Discovery
  • The old single BU environment epics (SXSW-430–436) are now marked Done/Rejected, replaced by this granular structure

Real velocity: +85 stories completed against existing work. The "scope expansion" represents previously-invisible work (subtasks) being formalized into trackable stories. This is a positive signal—the team is maturing their planning, not adding scope.

Pipeline Analysis:

  • 61 items now in review (down from 81)
  • 15 in active development (up from 14)
  • 299 still in Discovery (up from 228—mostly the 118 new env stories)
  • 7 blocked (down from 10)

By Initiative (only showing movement):

  • Infrastructure: 98/226 stories (43%, was 48%)—regressed due to scope increase
  • Cart & Checkout: 41/136 (30%, unchanged)—critical path still lagging

Action Required: None on scope—this is healthy planning maturation. Continue tracking the 118 Discovery stories to ensure they get sized and prioritized before the cutover window.

2. BU Boards - Confirmed Activity ​

CE Shopware (CESW): 216→218/348→356 (+2 stories, +8 scope)

  • 39 items in progress (unchanged)
  • 132→140 open items
  • Repository shows 30 commits from 3 authors (Scott Kovach, Emil Stewart, Blake Saunders)
  • Active work on Registration/Leads (CESW-246), Inventory (CESW-393), Auth0 integration

Domain API (W1DA): 99→102/205→245 (+3 stories, +40 scope)

  • 20 items in progress (unchanged)
  • Massive 40-story scope increase suggests Domain API requirements expanding
  • Active: Shopware Module Split (9/12), Distance Units (DOMAIN-261, 3/15)

ECMD Shopware (ECMDSW): 12→16/24→32 (+4 stories, +8 scope)

  • 11 items in progress
  • Highest completion rate: 50%→50% maintained despite scope growth
  • Infrastructure (9/17), Catalog (4/7) progressing

Analysis: The BU boards show healthy velocity with work actually landing. The 48-story combined scope increase across these three boards partially explains the SXSW scope growth—BU-specific requirements are being discovered and formalized.

3. Arrow - Domain API / Graph ​

Current State: 51/63 stories complete (81%)

Week-over-Week: Zero movement for fourth consecutive week

Repository Status: No commit data (clone timeout)—but last week showed 100 commits from 8 authors

Reality Check: The W1DA board is a separate project (SupplySync) that also leverages the Domain API—active work is happening there on shared graph capabilities. The 12 remaining stories on this ARROW board represent work that will resume once W1DA's current sprint completes.

Recommendation: Finish W1DA work, then migrate remaining Domain API stories back to the ARROW board for unified tracking.

4. Arrow - Frontend / Open Components ​

Current State: 376/426 stories complete (88%)

Week-over-Week: Zero ticket movement for fourth consecutive week

Key Win: Successful full-stack demo last week — Arrow Frontend → Domain API → Shopware end-to-end connectivity confirmed. Did not get through checkout, so happy path is not yet complete.

Repository Activity: 7 commits from 4 authors (Mitchell Cowie, Pablo Romero, Gabriel Guzmán)

Commit velocity down (41 last week → 7 this week)—team shifting from feature work to deployment/infrastructure.

Remaining 50 Stories: Customer-facing features (Order Approvals, AHRI PDP, Compare, Quick Order, Part Finder) plus checkout completion. Given the successful demo, these are real remaining work items, not orphans.

Next milestone: Complete checkout flow to achieve happy path end-to-end. Also actively working on a secondary skin (Homans + Peirce) to validate the multi-BU theming approach.

5. Arrow - Infrastructure / Cross-cutting ​

Current State: 80/101 stories complete (79%)

Week-over-Week: +2 stories completed (first movement in weeks)

Key Progress:

  • Demo Environment Bugs: 23/28 (82%)
  • Homans to Arrow migration: 1/8 started—finally breaking ground on this epic
  • Gemaire Support: 5/6 (83%, was 4/6)

Environment Status: The 6 CI/CD deployment tickets (SXSW-484–489) remain in Blocked status by design — staging restart is planned for mid-July.

6. BU Environment Deployment ​

Arrow Shopware Environments: Intentionally paused. The team made a deliberate decision to hold staging deployments while the Domain API and frontend stabilize. Plan to restart:

  • Mid-July: Staging environments for all BUs
  • Mid-August: Production environments

This is sequencing, not a blocker. The tickets (SXSW-484–489) remain in Blocked status as a tracking artifact but are not impeding active development work.

Arrow Magento: Progressing normally through Ordin with Gemaire/CE reaching Staging.

Shopware Core: All BUs paused pending the same mid-July restart for staging environments.

7. BU Frontend Implementation ​

Peirce Phelps: 7/8 complete (Account still WIP)—unchanged for 3+ weeks

Gemaire & Carrier Enterprise: All 8 areas in WIP—unchanged

All Others: Not started

Analysis: Frontend work appears stalled across all BUs. The 7 repository commits this week don't align with ticket movement, suggesting either: