Reading/Multimedia/Retrospectives/2018-09-13

2018-09-13

Previous Action Items

• NONE

What in the team's process is going well?

• We meet all the time! :D

• Our schedule is lined up nearly perfectly to meet deadlines, with (a little) wiggle room for interrupts

• Work is getting done and we seem even better at multitasking and switching from one thing to another even though they may be unrelated
  • Front-loading as much as possible and identifying roadblocks
  • Tolerance for Ramsey's presentations at a moment's notice
  • We are starting to document things more, helping with handoffs and sharing knowledge

• Cat facts
  • Improve: Repeat cat facts???

• We talk to each other :)
  • Some folks outside the team were disorganizedly concerned, and we managed to talk to each other about what to do, actionize, etc
    • We can talk frankly about stuff
  • Me changing time zones has helped me have convos with Cormac & Matthias more easily/frequently

• Teamwork (really appreciated meeting with Ramsey & Amanda to chunk out Depicts)

What in the team's process could be improved?

• Test coverage
  • Hope to talk about this in Jan as we release more substantial changes
  • And if so we should add it to the roadmap
    • +1!

• Need more time for Game of Thrones

• Stakeholder review meeting
  • How did we get there? [Can't control people's attention, or lack thereof]
    • Encourage people to come to us when they have a question
    • Might have to deal with this sort of thing sometimes
  • Was it useful, and should we do it more regularly?
    • Was useful to have a guiding presentation from Ramsey, plus Q&A as a group

• Design documentation on Phab... been noodling on it for a while & have been consulting a few folks, but want to do more documentation once I have a better idea of what & how for the spec/design workboard (chunking out Depicts will help this along a ton)

What in the team's process is confusing?

• Amanda popping into standups and such inconsistently?

• "Restore revisions" spec has been vague - slow to get into

• How is Google Meet working for folks?
  • A few teams are exploring non-Google alternatives because they miss Hangouts
    • What are these alternatives?
  • [Mark] I find it sufficient, even if some of the keyboard shortcuts are a little more tedious (in Hangouts, tab+space would join a meeting, in Meet you really need to use the mouse unless you want to tab for 2 minutes or so)
  • meh to Meet

• One "real" retro since June 21
  • Are they necessary?
  • Are we missing something from them?
  • Maybe a chance to reflect on what retros are for, and affirm that we are getting that value otherwise

Parking Lot

Action Items

• Pam and Max to talk Phab and tracking design documentation

• Amanda to come to retros, caelndar-RSVP hygiene