Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2015-10-09
ANDROID
editOctober 08, 2015
Previous Retrospective Actions
edit- Action! Provide update on device acquisition [ADAM] DONE
- Action! Team to continue compiling thoughts on Content Service in etherpad doc (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mobileapps_content_service_design) [TEAM] NOT DONE, CHANGE OF SCOPE
- Action! Follow up with Nuriya from Analytics on state of stats for link preview + pageviews [DMITRY] DONE
Worked Well
edit- Q1 quarterly review presentation to execs
- Jake Arrieta is a monster
- Working with Zhou on volunteer customer service access to Google play console
- ... but I need to follow up with him
- Clean Code
Worked Poorly
edit- Link preview data not cooperating
Confuses Us
edit- Can haz HockeyApp? maybe later
Top three items, from "Worked Poorly" and "Confuses Us"
editN/A
Action Items
edit- Action! Wait a sprint to see if there is progress on HockeyApp blockers. Use default implementation if not.
iOS
editOctober 09, 2015
Previous Retrospective Actions
edit- Action! Josh to get further clarity on QA availability/schedule for 5.0 [JOSH] DONE
- Action! Discuss how to "implement" product spec as single source of truth for designs & requirements [BRIAN TO START EMAIL THREAD] DONE
- Action! Start email thread clarifying how we see what design is working on [MAX] DONE
- Action! Meeting with design to discuss what is breaking iOS design patterns [BRIAN/KAITY/NIRZAR/TEAM] ONGOING
Worked Well
edit- Talking early and often (on IRC, phab, etc)
- Design doing column
- So much improvement! POINTS BE DAMNED!
- New designs coming together
- tangible changes/builds
- grooming+
Worked Poorly
edit- PM still behind pace for documentation/specs
- Questions from the team: can we get back to iterating/incrementing?
- Pace of Development+++
- Coordinating with Product on potential edge cases and time sinks
- Iterative development (merging work for tickets in chunks, leaving them partially implemented)
- Repeat code reviews
- Nit picking on things outside of "best practices"/standards discussions (guilty as charged)
- Hot-fixing CI
- Ended up breaking code coverage w/o realizing it
- Phab conversations ++
- e.g. mentioning designers w/ questions during implementation. could also be more present on IRC+
Confuses Us
edit- speed vs details balance
- QA column goal++
Top three items, from "Worked Poorly" and "Confuses Us"
edit- Pace of Development+++
- Coordinating with Product on potential edge cases and time sinks
- Phab conversations ++
- QA column goal++
Actions Items
edit- Action! Test drive Google Drive assets/spec management [TEAM]
- Action! Let's ship stuff, not focus too much on perfection/robustness
- Action! IRC norms for Phab communication: Email thread [BRIAN]
- Action! Get more regular updates w/design (standups?) [MAX EMAIL THREAD]
- Or post-estimation kick-off?
- Action! Set a timeline for when the QA tasks are acted on [BRIAN/JOSH]