pager-duty

README

Nextmv PagerDuty scheduling template

The PagerDuty scheduling problem assigns users to shifts (days) for incident response on-call duty. In our example problem we have the following setting:

• We have a number of days to schedule.
• We have a number of users. Each day should have a user, but not every user needs to be assigned to a day.
• In addition users can be unavailable for certain full days.
• Users can have preferences as to what days they prefer.
• Our objective is to find a plan that balances on-call responsibility across users and maximizes happiness. Happiness is measured as the number of times the user had their preferred day assigned.

This template uses our custom modelling framework to model and solve such a scheduling problem.

The most important files created are main.go and input.json.

• main.go implements a shift scheduling solver for PagerDuty.
• input.json is a sample input file that follows the input definition in main.go.

Before you start customizing, run the command below to see if everything works as expected:

nextmv sdk run . -- -runner.input.path input.json \
  -runner.output.path output.json -limits.duration 10s

A file output.json should have been created with the best found schedule.

Next steps

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Documentation

Overview

package main holds the implementation of the pager-duty template.