Summary as of Wednesday 11th February 2026

Future research and recruitment

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Sprint: 165(Emperor_Tamarin11026.jpg)

Attribution:

Interesting facts about Tamarins: The adult males, subadults, and juveniles in the group assist with caring for the young, bringing them to their mother to nurse.

Sprint Completion(A total of 21 out of 36 stories, tasks, and bugs were completed during this sprint, with priority given to bug fixes.)

1) Four standard protocols tickets completed during the Sprint, behind a feature flag. 2) Three tickets were done for the NTS DOCX document behind a feature flag. 3) HBA replacement was tested end to end and deployed into production. 4) We added the 2027 Bank holidays to ASPeL as part of product maintenance 5) We added rules for ‘new’ and ‘added’ flags on change highlighting in PPL. 6) We fixed the new comment display in the fate of animals section.

Bugs done or closed this Sprint

New Sprint 166 (uakari)

Attribution:

Interesting facts about uakaris:They are small, quiet, intelligent and active animals.

Our goals for Sprint 166(uakari):

1)Complete at least 3 of 6 CAT-E Pil improvement tickets on the board 2.Complete all AWS Tech debt tickets currently on the board 3.Complete a standard protocols content ticket to test with users, behind a feature flag 4.Complete at least 1 named person improvement ticket on the board 5.Implement elastic search to stabilise and improve ASPeL database searches. 6.Complete the accessibility ticket on the board to improve user experience on ASPeL 7.Get ASRU to define a substantial amendment 8.Design the UI to mark a PPL as substantially amended

Things to bear in mind

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