Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2018-05-07

May 7, 2018

== Previous Retrospective Actions ==

• Dedicate 5 min in eng sync to talk about vol patches and process

• Schedule a biweekly engineering roundtable, or at least get the devs together to talk about making a regular meeting

• @mention Rita in tickets that will need design review once they've passed code review

• Dmitry: go back over past tickets to calibrate estimates (update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/Story_estimation )

• Charlotte: Set down estimate norms (planning meeting)

• Lani and Max: Update task templates to use Deadline form DONE

• Bump original thread with instructions

"1-2-3 PASTE"

== Keep ==

• The great velocity - It’s been awesome!

• Gathering qualitative user feedback on features +1

• Looking at items in the code review column regularly, a little every day+1

• Fleshing out new feature tickets in a good level of detail ahead of when they’ll be needed

• velocity

solid velocity

team huddles / check-ins +1

- @rho on phab on design sign-off tickets+1+1+1

- sharing WIP design prototypes+1

== Stop ==

• insects.

== Start ==

• Learning Flutter

• https://flutter.io/setup-macos/

• I/O sessions: https://events.google.com/io/schedule/?section=may-8&topic=flutter

• Re-organizing ready to dev

• use more ConstraintLayout

== Questions ==

== Action Items ==

• Lani and Max: Bump original thread with instructions to add Deadline form to Star menu

• Dmitry to write a new paragraph on wiki page about best practices re: ConstraintLayout

• Dmitry: Schedule one-off meeting to discuss what was learned at Google I/O

• Maybe invite Volker and Jon Robson, or at least note what we might want to discuss with them later