Readers/Web/Team/Retrospectives/2015-08-18
Notable Events
[edit]- JK came back
- Strategy kickoff
- KL muscles blew up
- Rob still has baby
- JK gets moustache
- Jeff is attending Reading web meetings is Jeff back? it's a process
Absences
[edit]- KL Out 08/10-08/17
- Sam PT
Previous retro actions
[edit]Action! Circle back to team direction discussion post-strategy kickoff at next retro to see how we are feeling then [TEAM] DONE
Action! Email Rachel and Quim re: ECT help with Reading Web team offsite (Phab doesn't seem to be working-privacy settings?) [KL] DONE
Action! Meet to figure out next offsite steps, try to get travel sorted within next ten days [JO/KL] ONGOING
<Iceland or Portugal in October>
Action! Lock down location, $s, and finalize travel [KL]
Action! Review Reading Web Planning board before estimation to see what's coming up and weigh in [TEAM] DONE
Action! Move MFE tasks/bugs to MFE project; create queries for high priority bugs/triage [JOH] ALMOST DONE
Velocity
[edit]8 points (previously ~20) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WhuTM1UBAVwFYJf6C6Rrd_INYlzKTa1oCSQnpvpougg/edit#gid=2
Notes on velocity:
- starting new extensions is hard; Jon pushing for more responsible (?) development
- There were many dependent tasks; slowed down movement of stuff
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Worked Well
[edit]- Sign off notes from Joaquin
- Upstreaming!
- Bartosz upstreaming our ForeignApi code
- mw.storage
- experiments (in progress)
- Killing code
- login code
- alpha code
- Pairing is Caring
- Integrate more with the org when doing QuickSurveys
- Meeting with Bryan about ex-Mobile team why's [send to mailing list! :)] (yep, pending to do)
Worked Not Well
[edit]- Joaquin's internet :P
- Paring is Caring - start time and attendance and possibly a day after kick off is problematic? +++
- Would like to have 1 on 1 sessions scheduled at random-but-agreed-on times
- Still have lots of code debt - namely banner image/header (killing this sprint) and Gather (?) - bugs occurring there since not actively working on it right now - concerning
- Things are very quiet in meetings / in IRC channel during day time +
- No visible site improvements (but I guess this is accepted/understood?)+
- Office move
- Phabricator (dragging, typeaheads, ...)
- Bad spirits due to re-reading old conflictive phab tasks while re-triaging and organizing with negative comments directed at people on the mobile web team and a general sense of disdain felt towards the people on the team. Also old tasks re-prioritized by people not working on them.
Confuses
[edit]- what metric can we use to measure success of reading web +++++
- What is #mobilefrontend-feature-requests for? Can we merge with #mobilefrontend [YES]
- Prototyping and experiment, how will we do it++++
Top three items
[edit]- what metric can we use to measure success of reading web +++++
- JK: until we have an aspiration, it’s hard to know what to measure against
- JK working with analytic on session and user level stuff
- JDLR feeling disconnected from mission because I don’t know how to engage...what are we using quick survey work for?
- AB: surveys will be used for data-driven approach to design changes, informing stra
- JK: We should distinguish between feature-level goals and metrics (survey = info about users) V. top-level (reading = learning, with engagement as a proxy for now)
Action! Document how each feature ties in to our goals? What is the theory of impact for a given scope of work? [Product, techpros]
Action! Documentation for experimental work, including results, rationale [Product, techpros]
- Prototyping and experiment, how will we do it++++
- Need to get prototyping team thinking one quarter ahead
- Paring is Caring - start time and attendance and possibly a day after kick off is problematic? +++
- Would like to have 1 on 1 sessions scheduled at random-but-agreed-on times
- Action! Set up a pairing session with another team member you haven’t paired with [TEAM]
- Don’t forget to plan what you want to work on!!!
- Action! Create a “pair-worthy” tag in Phab [SS]