Wikimedia Apps/imported/Retrospective-September 18 2014
Previous Retrospective Actions
edit- Set up quarterly "unstructured sprint" [Kristen/Dan] not urgent, will carry over. Quarterly planning sprint may be our unstructured sprint :-)
- Give Vibha & Moiz iTunes account login access [Tomasz]; Waiting on Design iTunes account [Vibha] DONE
- Give Vibha & Moiz access to data about user actions [Dan] OBSOLETE
- Set up monthly apps data review meeting [Dan/Vibha] will be resch'ed
- Blog post and social media to recruit testers [Monte/Vibha/Moiz/Dmitry]
- Explore paid testing services [Tomasz] to be continued
- we will also likely be getting 1 FTE QA tester within a month
- what will iOS/Android split look like? TBD
Worked Well
edit- Nearby feature completed+1
- Beta/prod releases of Android app continue to be painless
- Android Alpha self-update notification http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikipedia-android-builds/ Instructions on how to use the testing stuff for Android: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_app+1
- iOS 8 fix sprint got a lot of stuff done
- Team flexibility about dropping all our work to do iOS 8 compatibility fixes+1
- Hijacking app release notes to recruit beta testers!+1
- 20 -> 160 testers!!
- we will switch to official open beta channel when available
- 3.5 stars
- Dan's hacking on the Android code base+1+1
- Starting bimontly guerilla research
Worked Poorly
edit- iOS 8 fix sprint delayed other stuff
- god damn Apple took forever to get that update out and now is sitting on the next one. Grr! +1
- Lack of certainty about access to analytics -- led to unnecessary work (session eventlogging)+1+1+1+1
- Had a story about logging a normal user session
- implemented with eventlogging, but this info is available via Analytics, duplication of effort
- don't think this will happen again with Analytics; Toby is aware of issues with getting access
- issues around mobile/analytics have been clarified
- Maryana is mobile single point of contact/Dario is analytics single point of contact
- Activity based work must be limited, we need to switch to goal based models
- If mockups exist please link to them from the Trello cards. That should happen BEFORE we estimate the card, not after I'm halfway done with implementation.+1+1+1
- Bernd learned that there was a design available after he already implmented the card
- there is a board with 'latest designs', but it's a big board
- make sure we link to design board from actual task
- Design review meeting: invite all, move a little earlier? [Dan]
- Short-term cancellation of meetings is pretty annoying. Don't wait until last second to move it.
- Need more Android-specific designs. I know there is a tendency to apply a one-fits all design for all platforms but it may not always be appropriate. +1+1+1+1+1
- specifically ToC
- Dan and Vibha agree
- second design iteration worked
- create designs fro both platforms (even if one is not goign to work on it) [Vibha]
- Copy and pasting retrospective notes changes the font. :(
- Feedback from extra beta testers through TestFlight now means we have one too many feedback channels (ship it to OTRS!)+1+1
- Can we get feedback from testflight -> OTRS? [MONTE/DAN]
- If not, we need to figure out how to handle the channels
- Violating apple's/Testflight's ToS :) (whoops!)
- Delay before we learn about how users are behaving+1
- does anyone care about the numbers after we release stuff?
- need a single page to get these numbers easily, resistance from analytics
- or we need to get more resources
- get clarification from Howie about how we operate [Vibha]
- Things sititng in beta without concrete plan +1+1+1
- things that are almost there, but we lose track of them (eg disambiguation)
- need to keep better track of this
- what does it take to get something to production?
- what does Dan need to verify readiness?
- software testing AND usability testing (separate issue, QA can help!)
- let's meet to come up with a plan to tackle this problem/figure out our team practices [Kristen]
Confuses Us
edit- How do we collect/review suggestions and issues from reviews and beta feedback?
- What else might Google want, in terms of improving the app in order to be Featured? (I guess better tablet specific design)
- Apple
- When are we getting back to goal based work
- IOS developer