Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2016-11-18

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November 18, 2016

Previous Retrospective Actions

• [MICHAEL, STEPHEN] Get password for true crypt volume TO BE CARRIED OVER
• [MAX] Reschedule grooming (around other rescheduling) DONE: Natalia will be in charge!
• [MICHAEL] Make a spike ticket to explore the retrofit-mock module's networking error mocking capabilities and add more error cases to unit tests TO BE CARRIED OVER
• [MAX] Reach out to Josh about shifting from traditional Scrum to a release-board or kanban-esque model DONE

Significant Events

• Moving on up to kanban+
• Scrum Master handoff+
• Firstt full sprint with Rita, I think+

Lacked

• DB's velocity a bit decreased

Learned

• Kanban stuff and things
• No deploys on Fridays (, Saturdays, Sundays)
• There's more Phab tickets than I thought

Loved

• Many of the Phab cards lately have been very granular
• Pretty good momentum and stuff getting done across app and services
• Minor goals being knocked out+
• iOS and web working on services
• Lots of good contributions to services
• Cool to have our own designer

Longed For

• More stable CI
• Mocked service tests
• Scheduling resolution+

Questions

• MB: Are we getting anything out of Combined Apps Standup?

Action Items

• [MICHAEL, STEPHEN] Get password for true crypt volume
• [MICHAEL] Make a spike ticket to explore the retrofit-mock module's networking error mocking capabilities and add more error cases to unit tests
• [NATALIA] Reschedule grooming (around other rescheduling)
• [STEPHEN] Create a tech debt Phab ticket for Mocked service tests

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