Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2016-03-11
March 11, 2016
Android
[edit]Previous Retrospective Actions
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Interim ED+
- First user options beta
- Still very few crashes, even considering the amount of code added recently
Loved
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Progress on my piece of pagelists/syncing/etc
- Clarity on login/account API changes
- Time/resources for fulfilling dependencies for our Q3 goals
Learned
[edit]- It's confusing to have multiple sprint tags on one task
- More about deploying MCS, and what not to do.
Longed for
[edit]- A backend for collections / reading lists+
Action Items
[edit]- 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]
IOS
[edit]Previous Retrospective Actions
[edit]- None
Significant Events
[edit]- We released!
- First couple weeks without Brian
- PRESS! <nothing happens when i press here... :(
- New ED
- Featured in 3d touch by apple
Worked Well
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Accessibility fixes
- OTRS and responding to feedback/tickets
- Some piwik numbers, specially negative exit rates
Action Items
[edit]- 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]