Wikimedia Apps/Team/Android/Development Cycle

The Android team recently moved away from Scrum towards Kanban to manage their development process.

Rituals

Name	Frequency	Duration	Description	Goals	Resources	Attendees	Notes
Iteration Review/Kickoff	Biweekly on Monday	25 min	Team meets to review the last two weeks of development and clarifies goals for the next two weeks of work.	Review outstanding stories Estimate unestimated stories on the kanban board Move stories from the To Do and Needs Design/Design Doing columns to Ready for Dev, if applicable Check in on what's Blocked/Waiting Move out obsolete stories Set expectations for the iteration	Kanban board	Product Owner Engineers Designers Facilitator
Story Prioritization (Planning)	Biweekly on Monday	50 min	Team meets to plan the coming two week's work. Planning involves reviewing and estimating stories on the kanban board.	Estimate new stories that were added to the kanban board from the backlog Move new stories from the To Do and Needs Design/Design Doing columns to Ready for Dev, if applicable	Backlog Kanban board	Product Owner Engineers Designers QA Facilitator
Retrospective	Weekly on Monday	50 min	Team meets to discuss topics proposed by team members, mostly process-related.	Discuss what's working well Discuss what could be improved Establish next steps to implement change		Product Owner Engineers Designers Facilitator
Combined Apps Standup	Weekly on Monday	15 min	Apps teams, Android and iOS, meet to exchange quick status updates. Everyone but Facilitator answers three questions: What have you been up to since the last standup? What do you expect to be working on until the next one? Do you have any blockers? After giving their update, each person chooses who goes next by saying the other person's name.	Share what you've worked on Share what you'll be working on Share what's blocking you		Product Owners Engineers Designers Facilitator
Standup	Weekly on Wednesday and Friday	15 min	Team meets to exchange quick status updates. Everyone but Facilitator answers three questions: What have you been up to since the last standup? What do you expect to be working on until the next one? Do you have any blockers? After giving their update, each person chooses who goes next by saying the other person's name.	Share what you've worked on Share what you'll be working on Share what's blocking you		Product Owner Engineers Designers Facilitator
Grooming and Triage	Weekly on Wednesday	25 min	Team meets to either clean up the kanban board or triage tasks in the backlog.	Groom tasks on the kanban board or Triage tasks in the backlog	Backlog Kanban board	Product Owner Engineers Designers Facilitator	Optional