Reading/Multimedia/Retrospectives/2018-11-08

2018-11-08

Previous Action Items

• Amanda - Plan to add these things to talk about in person (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Yyij9BAYjtgAIxqtN-z15KiylWNyMuxHEI3vDUswxGA/edit?usp=sharing):

• Future statement implementation (can someone remind me what CDP means?)

• • CDP

• • Cross-Departmental Program

What in the team's process is going well?

• ooh look! I'm turquoise! that's going well

• I (Mark) got into the swing of hiring stuff and finally climbing out of that hole, which means fewer distractions (and soon, hopefully, a new team member)

• Yes, the getting-distracted could have been in "could be improved", but the first time was bound to be bumpy

• QA is going well

• Bugs are getting identified and fixed in reasonably short timelines

What in the team's process could be improved?

• I could do with a list of blockers/almost blockers that's maintained [if it's red/high priority, it should be fixed] ... yeah but that doesn't mean it's a blocker [I only make it red if it is potentially a blocker]

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/ZO1cdTL43EQI/#R are all the open "High" and above tasks in our SDC projects.

• Everything we fix leads us to find another that needs fixing. Feels a little like Eternal September of tasks.

What in the team's process is confusing?

• When do we close a task? Some have product sign-off but are still open? e.g. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205987

Parking Lot

Action Items

• Check in on meeting load/fatigue