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Worked Well

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  • Wikimania!
    • good to have direct contact with users, concrete feedback led to implementation of useful features
    • reminder that we have a huge community
  • Unstructured time provided really good opportunity to get to the bottom of some tricky bugs - also surfaced some semi-glaring omissions ahem gzip cough
  • ^ good breathing room to learn/implement a lot of backend/CI stuff
  • ACTION!: Do we want to do this more frequently during the quarter? [Kristen]
  • Developers being suuuuuper responsive


Worked Poorly

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  • Not being at Wikimania :( +1+1
  • Limn is painful +1000 (+1000000) +++++
    • analytics is working on a db that will replace limn (may take a few quarters, per Moiz)
  • Sprint themes and velocity +1+
    • eg title of Sprint 38 is "a lie"
    • hard to find common theme between iOS and Android work when teams are not in sync with features and velcoity is different
    • team thinks this is not a problem, sharing code is a boon
  • Sprint themes without sharing vision +1
    • eg what are 4-5 themes to focus on to get editing #s up?
    • need more prep for sprints with such important themes
    • Howie wants Dan and Maryana to figure out time allocation for readers v. editors
    • vision should be shared
  • Dan's time allocation to apps+1+1
    • SUL stuff has been eating Dan's time
    • *should* have time to participate in the usual PO responsibilites...actually shoudl be able to be ahead of things
    • SUL off Dan's plate after this quarter
  • No idea of downloads / General Instrumentation
    • iOS download numbers
    • ACTION!: give Vibha & Moiz login access [Tomasz] Waiting on Design iTunes account [Vibha]
    • ACTION!: give Vibha & Moiz access to data about user actions [Dan]
    • ACTION!: monthly data review meeting [Dan/Vibha]
      • outcome should be deciding on basic 5-6 metrics that are consistent on an ongoing basis+1
  • Reaching Users
    • reddit to recruit testers?
    • test scripts/what do we want testers to test?
  • Insufficient testflight users +1 +1 +1 +1+1
    • ACTION!: blog post and social media [Monte/Vibha/Moiz]
    • ACTION!: paid testing services [Tomasz]
  • Tech Debt Sprint based on reviews and crash reports +1 +1+1+1
    • ACTION!: this ties in to unstructured sprint idea above...make it so [Dan/Kristen]
    • one sprint per quarter: unstructured/tech debt then crash reports
    • Note: don't need to wait until a specific sprint to tackle tech debt
  • Trusting each other in the roles we have
    • balancing speed with involvement
    • cards for everything!

Confuses Us

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  • Understanding Dev challenges for specific stories
  • Satisfactory Story breakdown so developers feel like they are ready to go
  • Ideas vs execution
  • analytics commitments to dashboards / sesion / page view data
    • analytics team in general


Previous

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  • Commitment to Page Styling vs increasing active editors +1+1+1+1++1 [DAN] with help Vibha & engineers
  • Unclear what schedule translation updates are happening at, and we only have yuvi with direct access in the system. Do we need more folks with access, or just a clearer schedule with Siebrand? ++1 (Yuvi will transition this to another team member (Siebrand wants only one person to have access in the team), volunteers welcome) [Bernd] volunteers.
  • A mediawiki page describing the app [DAN]++++
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