Community Tech/Retrospectives/2015-08-24
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What has gone well?
[edit]- It's nice to have Phab tickets to work off of, easy to pick one and go
- Phab is not as light as trello, but seems better integrated
- "Will learn to like phabricator"
- Standups are good to keep on track
- Like the frequency
- Had time to look into interesting stuff and contribute to CoC discussions
- Glad we have a manager and Team Practices support!
- Security training was a lot of fun and useful
- I have learnt a lot of new stuff - bots/gadgets as part of the research/spike cards
- Communication with different teams as part of the spike card research process has gone well - I now know more people from more departments
- Collaborating with TCB team (although not a whole lot yet)
- Hoping to review TCB code and vice versa
- "2 week cadence seems about right"
- So far it seems like we all can agree on things and work with each other, which is good.
- Interaction with the community has been positive so far
- Getting feedback from community members and stakeholders in Phabricator has worked surprisingly well
What could have gone better?
[edit]- We need to work out a process for Community Liaison support, so the Community Liaison knows how to best support the team.
- Not enough work for this sprint +1
- I didn't keep the spike card timeframe (half a day/a day) really in mind which led me to do fewer spike cards than I could have done. I got lost in trying out the actual extensions instead of just finding out stuff about them and leaving that there.
- Feel a need for a meeting to discuss things more than the standups - find myself asking on IRC more
- more 1:1s?
- We could have had better acceptance criteria for the spike cards (i.e. more clear instructions about the expected outcomes of the investigations)
- Would like to connect better with other dev
- Weekly 1:1 are good, but maybe more?
- Still stalled on SecurePoll stuff, partly because of feedback and partly because of inertia
- Getting useful feedback from the Editing team has been a bit painful
- Would be nice to have coding work
- Would like to start 1:1s
- "Feel a little lost in phabricator"
- "Could not use phab productively without configuring my notifications"
- I (Ryan) feel like I haven't been doing a lot of engineering managing (been doing more product mgmt)
- Find the balance
What else is on your mind?
[edit]- At standups, does it make sense to ask Johan, or should he just observe?
Action Items
[edit]- Standups (chickens and pigs)
- CL communication as part of workshops?
- Backlog ran empty
- Find way to have more communications outside of the standups (one-on-ones)
- TImeboxing spikes: Worked well, or didn't?
- Process for dealing with unfinished work from previous sprint
- Communications w/Editing (and other) team
Retro the Retro
[edit]- Hopefully next time less remote, but went well considering
- Etherpad process went well
- Possibly vote and deeper discussions at some point