Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2015-12-04
ANDROID
[edit]December 4, 2015
Previous Retrospective Actions
[edit]- Send email about learnings from Proguard / Support lib / MapView [Dmitry] NOT DONE
- Weekly digest of funny/positive Play Store feedback [Dmitry] DONE
- "Stars from Midnight"
- "The Midnight Copy"
- Email thread: How reading strategy will effect android team [KAITY] DONE
- Investigate mentorship (and product) opportunities (related to GSOC/Outreachy/Israel) [Q3&4 PLANNING?]
Loved
[edit]- ET: Love the sense of completeness in android app - both in design and stability (+KH)
- Dmitry’s presentation of the latest with the app (+ response) (mdh)
- MB: Team covered Elena while she was out
Lacked
[edit]Learned
[edit]- [db] try to have more foresight in anticipating design changes in complex tasks
- KH Trying to balance long term design thinking with quick improvements
Longed for
[edit]- Bernd +1+1+1+1 (looking forward to return of the bernd!)
- ET: more time for qa :( - somehow the end of a sprint comes too soon every time
Top three items, from "4L's" (if short on time)
[edit]Action Items
[edit]- Send email about learnings from Proguard / Support lib / MapView [Dmitry]
- Production-release-cadence digest of funny/positive Play Store feedback [Dmitry]
- "Stars from Midnight"
- "The Midnight Copy"
iOS
[edit]December 7, 2015
Previous Retrospective Actions
[edit]- Bump up QA column WIP? Evaluate WIP (email) [TEAM] DONE
- Batch move all alpha tagged, resolved tasks in PM signoff to released column [MAX] DONE
- Make a devops ticket for investigating travis [BRIAN] DONE
Worked Well
[edit]- Major cleanup of bug backlog YEAH!+1+1
- Hard stop on beta tickets
- Board filters+1
- Putting relevant specs on tickets/PRs (I hope?)
- I've been liking putting screenshots on pr's
Worked Poorly
[edit]- Scheduling estimation meeting is hard
- Possible Designers can move their weekly meeting up by 30 min?
- CI being all weird. But hopefully fixed now
- Estimation meeting over discussions
- Loss of focus on beta tasks
Confuses Us
[edit]- WIP limit for "Blocked or Waiting"
- Are WIP limiters something we don't need?
- Balancing team need for delivery, org need for user value, personal mental bandwidth for decision making and standards of quality/aspirations
- points/icons disappearing from phabulabutabulator
Top three items, from "Worked Poorly" and "Confuses Us" (if short on time)
[edit]Actions Items
[edit]- Design to rejigger design meeting to squeeze in estimation [MAX TO EMAIL]
- Email thread about subtasks vs. checklists vs. breaking up tasks [MAX TO EMAIL]