Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2016-11-03

iOS

November 03, 2016

Previous Retrospective Actions

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Discussion Topics

• MB: Ran a qualitative survey on iOS

• • Sent to those on the outskirts of the team

• • Purpose was to get a better sense of where the team is at with process and measuring success, by getting open feedback and coding themes

• • Clear and aligned goals
  • Team is quick to respond
  • Mailing list helpful
  • Face to face chats
  • Team is friendly
  • (When in doubt) trusts the team’s judgement

Questions

• MB: How was it without TPG around?

• • Hope to better define engagement

• Reporting action items and followup
  • Maybe fewer, but feels more like we didn’t have a recorder/motivator
  • +1 Corey: having max around frees us up to have the conversations because we have a safety net
  • Josh: good to have someone who is not part of the conversation, focus on logistics
• Josh: might be like mental health prescription: what happens when you stop taking your medicine?

• MB: Are we getting anything out of Combined Apps Standup?

• • Can go a long time without being useful, but then the rare occurrence it’s really handy
    • Corey: if there is a rare occurrence, might as well have a formal adhoc meeting
  • Cultural impact is good, reminded that we have compatriots
  • There used to be a monthly staff meeting for Reading. What happened to it?
  • We used to do ALL meetings together; we brought this one back, and it’s not really hurting us
  • Josh: if the services team becomes it’s own team, we might get tech leads together