Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2016-03-11

March 11, 2016

Android

Previous Retrospective Actions

• Invite iOS to unified Apps standup [STEPHEN] DONE
• Make retro a speedy hour, carve into “retro” and “beer” [MAX] DONE
• Swap estimation with retro on schedule [MAX] DONE
• Max to chat with team members about 1:1 time [MAX] DONE
• Follow up with team about posting retro [MAX] DONE

Significant Events

• Interim ED+
• First user options beta
  • Still very few crashes, even considering the amount of code added recently

Loved

• Bernd's idea to estimate using upcoming boards (which have been populated via tag)
• Bernd's data client patch and tests
• Tagging MCS items in the sprint
• Subtasking Android-specific tasks when the parent task overlaps with other teams
• I'm a K Maher fan+
• Still very few crashes, even considering the amount of code added recently
• Reduced memory leaks+

Lacked

• Progress on my piece of pagelists/syncing/etc
• Clarity on login/account API changes
• Time/resources for fulfilling dependencies for our Q3 goals

Learned

• It's confusing to have multiple sprint tags on one task
• More about deploying MCS, and what not to do.

Longed for

• A backend for collections / reading lists+

Action Items

• Ping Brad Jorsch about clarity on login/account API changes [MICHAEL]
  • Wait until we've spiked
• Let's chat about how Kanban might change things if we used it instead of Scrum [MAX/STEPHEN]
• Make a phab task to investigate what was going on with wikitionary 404s [MICHAEL]

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IOS

Previous Retrospective Actions

• None

Significant Events

• We released!
• First couple weeks without Brian
• PRESS! <nothing happens when i press here... :(
• New ED
• Featured in 3d touch by apple

Worked Well

• Release Process
• Bug triage fixing
• TSG crankin' 'em out, readily gives process feedback
• Got a great candidate for our open position wot wot! yay!
• Response / fix of Testflight within 24 hours #ZONE
• Phab UI makes tagging easy+1
  • Release boards over universal workboard
• Generally Phab is better - a lot better
• Josh / Max getting our backlogs and epics in order
• We're communicating really well
• Early press
• Support from WMF
• working with another team, iOS x Comms

Worked Poorly

• BriOS uninstalled -1:( revert revert!
• We could be a tad more punctual (ive been particularly terrible at this lately)
• iTunes Connect
• Web changes to CSS +1

Confuses Us

• Accessibility fixes
• OTRS and responding to feedback/tickets
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124936
• Some piwik numbers, specially negative exit rates

Action Items

• Investigate more regular touchpoint with Android (email) [MAX] DONE
  • Maybe one standup per week is combined
  • Also look into more mobile web syncs - android might be more plugged in, but its more the people who are making changes that we should sync with
• Monte needs a repeating do-OTRS invite [MAX]
• Nzr needs his own repeating do-OTRS invite [MAX]
• Week of 21st, need to schedule brownbag [MAX/JOSH]