We've held on to our daily standup meetings, which are helpful. It's kept me sane through a tumultuous time. A good practice to keep going anyway, keeps the team together and lets us talk about things.
And they are on time! :)
I also really like that they are written down, for posterity as well as transparency and focus.
The backlog curation meeting also helps, especially on this team where bugs have sat for a long time without attention
Could we do with more of that? It doesn't feel to me like we're making a huge impact on the backlog (though maybe we're not supposed to be) <-- This sounds like "improved" :)
We seem to actually like each other...most of the time. :)+1
Communication seems to happen freely+1
We have a very good "alpha" which portends good things
Ramsey: Not sure that MM has done before. When new designer shows, we will have a new process. Will it be Google? Maybe. Maybe InVision. A lot of design research stuff to happen first, too. Google Drive will have a flat, non-directive set of results.
Amanda: New designer is SDoC-committed, with heavy emphasis on MM, but the design process they have for that will likely mirror what is on MM.
Is this specific to 3D?
Yes, and a spec exists, but it is prelim and needs to be changed.
As Max mentioned, we should have a planning meeting - no real sprint structure ATM
cf. quarterly planning (which has been ad-hoc for as long as I can remember, but could be better?)
Can we create a longer feedback loop/cycle?
We have a workboard, but it doesn't seem to be treated as a Kanban board. It's possible to use a Kanban without a planning meeting. Workboard is too big for planning meetings.
It's not clear what MM is working on vs everything in the board.
Having a planning meeting would let us prioritize current tasks as well as plan for more than one day out.
Ramsey would need to be there, probably engineers
How is this different from grooming?
Subtle difference, but we could repurpose grooming for planning.
Is there a kickoff meeting?
Reading Web has kickoff, grooming, retro, prioritization.
How much is life in MM going to change when SDoC gets going?
Now, we just try to fix as much wrong with Commons as possible.
Need to balance bugs with SDoC dev
+1 Some Phabricator cleanup is probably in order
Ramsey wants to clean up the cruft
Separating workboards probably solves some of this
Don't want to miss anything
Want to make sure other teams are aware of their responsibilities
There are always more ideas than time
We want to project an image of cleanliness, esp with regards to SDoC
Actually doing work will be a big part of this
Age of task in the backlog may be a way to remove tasks
Separating team work from volunteer work
Code review practices are a little lax (I am as guilty of this as anyone) +1
Patches sit for a long time, and we don't get things done
That information gets lost
Missing patches because they were tagged in some backlog somewhere
Need a team expectation of when code review happens
Gerrit lets you create combinations of dashboards
Can we check this regularly?
If we have a workboard, this may be solved
Unless you have patches that are not associated with a ticket
Or somehow related
We knew it would likely be the case, but integrated design could help....now we will hold tight for that.
How do we want to do roadmap and quarterly planning for The Future™?
The grooming sessions are a little hard to follow for me atm, though I'm hoping that'll improve as I learn my way around better
I'm a bit unclear on the SDoC stuff - Ramsey doing a great job of keeping us up to date on what's happening, but I'm not really succeeding in keeping a good picture of the state of the nation in my head
Should I be looking at the SDoC drive all the time? Is this what I do without a process?+1
Amanda: I started sending update emails, but stopped because was overwhelmed with execution, will start sending updates again
How will CL support be integrated once 3D is done?
For SDoC we have Sandra, currently OOO
She lists her stuff on Phab
Non-SDoC stuff might go through Chris
E.g. designs go out to community
The CLs have a new process this FY for how to request help from them
Open question: Who asks for help for non-SDoC stuff?
