Wikimedia Apps/imported/Retrospective-October 16 2014
Previous Retrospective Actions
edit- Contact Maryana/Dario for any analytics-related issues [ALL]
- Jon (new member of PM group) will be joining "in the background" to examine mobile data as part of his onboarding; not sure what long-term plan is yet
- Dan will be meeting with Howie et al later to get clarity on Jon's role
- Make sure that mocks are linked to sprint task from design board [Vibha] DONE, ONGOING
- Invite all team members to design review meeting (leads required, others optional); move meeting to an earlier time if possible [Dan] DONE
- Create designs for iOS AND Android (even if one team will not be working on the feature) [Vibha] DONE, ONGOING
- Figure out how to get feedback from testflight to OTRS [Monte/Dan] TABLED
- investigated, but not solved
- Dan is reading test flight reviews, OK if we don't to respond to all
- Clarify expectations about pre- and post-release analytics with Howie [Vibha] DONE
- Meet to discuss a better process for tracking what features are in beta and what it takes to get them to production [Kristen] DONE
- see Dan's email about release process/timing
Outstanding items from previous (previous) retrospective:
- Set up monthly apps data review meeting [Dan/Vibha] TABLED
- Jon will be addressing some of this, let's see how it goes
- discuss analytics needs with Lila; can we clarify if there are resources for apps?
- first we need to know what we want: eg one-click access to all apps schema data
- Blog post and social media to recruit testers [Monte/Vibha/Moiz/Dmitry] IN PROGRESS
- Dan is reviewing
Worked Well
edit- being at the office! +1+1+1
- Having developer team come talk to users with design and research +1
- house of air!!!!111+1 <--designers you missed out
- iOS refactored code is much cleaner +1+1
- Android refactored code is awesome+1+1
- Unstructured Sprint +1+1
- Dan had fun doing more coding for Android
- Hacks that come out of unstructured time +1+1++1
- Monte and Dmitry doing a blog post
- brainstorming about the future of Wikipedia on mobile devices with everyone
- Quarterly planning +1+1+1
- might be useful to do this earlier
- longer offsite would be great
- Dan in the process of handing off SUL work to Keegan +1 +1
Worked Poorly
edit- analytics bla bla bla +1
- iOS refactoring has run overtime +1+1+1
- see " IOS devs are overworked"
- NO REGRETS!
- Android refactoring run a bit overtime
- missing Yuvi
Confuses Us
edit- analytics - consult with tomasz?
- IOS Recruitment? IOS devs are overworked +1+1+1+1
- mobile web recruitment done, iOS now priority
- Tomasz agreed to 2 iOS devs
- Apple. :P More release woes as their system updates and occasionally breaks. +1
- "Project Lead for Mobile" vs "Product Owner for Mobile Apps"
- Meeting with Howie to clarify
- Owning technical research
- tech lead owns? can delegate
- wikidata is a concern overall, acknowledged by sr mgmt+1+1+1+1+1+1+1
- see Maryana's wikidata asks
- has been shared w/directors, damon, lila
- need to keep the pressure on
- generate laundry list of use cases that are dependent on wikidata
- brign up w/directors on one-on-one
- bring to Damon
- structured data shoudl be #1 priority, even over mobile
- it's our need to make mobile work well! keep talking up structured data needs
- start implementing things to drive development on their end