Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2016-01-20
ANDROID
[edit]January 15, 2016
Previous Retrospective Actions
[edit]Significant Events
[edit]- All hands/Dev summit
- Bowling
- Holidays
- MCS pre-generation started (main pages get stale without it)
- Wiktionary patches merged!+++
- Grooming kicked off and becoming regular. Triage column geting shorter. :)
- Android piloting Phlogiston
Loved
[edit]- MediaWiki, etc (non-Android) tech talk
- all hands +1+
- Meeting people face-to-face for the first time +
- Giving Stephen an idea of how tall everyone really is -+ (I'm actually standing right now, can you tell?)
- Meeting people face-to-face for the first time +
- working with people IRL for a bit
Lacked
[edit]- bowling skills of my youth
- action items from Dev Summit
- Dedicated QA resources
- Still struggling to meet our sprint-to-sprint commitments
- kan to the ban
Learned
[edit]- Dmitry is a wicked, vengeance-driven+1 bowler
- Gather might be lacking some features for saved pages. Still to be confirmed. Gather is currently only on enwiki and hewiki, plus en.wikivoyage.
I doubt it supports cross-wiki lists. ( (+-1)
Longed for
[edit]- Releases each iteration/sprint
- -1 not until this is better automated
- More face-time with Android IRL+
Top three items, from "4L's" (if short on time)
[edit]Action Items
[edit]- Need further discussions with Gather folks on how to proceed, email thread [BERND/DMITRY]
iOS
[edit]January 20, 2016
Previous Retrospective Actions
[edit]- Send out thread about subtasks vs. checklists vs. breaking up tasks [NIRZAR] NOT DONE
- Figure out how to use release tags going forward [MAX/JOSH] DONE
- Setup a calendar event to notify us 1 & 2 months before so we can have our iTC ducks in a row [BRIAN] DONE
Significant Events
[edit]- All hands/Dev summit
- IRL planning/sandwich/navigation clarity/bowling
- Sherah joined
- Mass beta MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
- Quarterly Review
Worked Well
[edit]- Navigation meetings at dev summit +1
- Monte's weekend projects+1
- Video! NEEDZ MOAR GOTH
- Bowling+1+1
- Big sandwich
- Cap on featureset for 5.0 production
- i.e. we defined one—sticking to it will be the challenge
- Feedback survey+1
Worked Poorly
[edit]- Lacking #Easy-tagged tasks in our backlog
- We have a person willing to contribute 3-4hrs/wk but we don't know what they should work on
- Communication w/ services/infra team about AuthManager changes
- Project management and planning bandwidth(+BG)
- What are the bottlenecks & time-sinks?
- Anything we can do to self-organize and give you space to think at a higher-level?
Confuses Us
[edit]- State and category columns on one board
- Resolving tasks that don't go through flow
- BG: Only concern is order of operations: prototyping/design -> acceptance criteria -> estimation -> dev
- Connecting our planning meeting aspirations with Phab reality
- We should talk QA changes
Top three items, from "Worked Poorly" and "Confuses Us" (if short on time)
[edit]Action Items
[edit]- iOS to get their own retro etherpad [MAX]
- Send out thread about subtasks vs. checklists vs. breaking up tasks [NIRZAR]
- Note for next retro: Do we need to chat with Adam B about communication around services/infra team re: AuthManager
- Discuss process moving forward for boards, planning, etc [MAX/JOSH/TEAM]
- Email thread to discuss "State and category columns on one board" [MAX]
- Note for next retro: Are we capturing our decision-making in task form? Phab execution, etc?
- ACTION: Schedule time after planning meetings to capture discussions into actions [MAX/JOSH]