Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2018-10-11

October 11 2018

== Previous Action Items ==

• Dmitry: document new best practices wrt network, rx java [carry over] - still in progress

• Charlotte: think about fun knowledge sharing for All Hands [carry over] - lightning talks

• Charlotte: follow up with JK re: discussion with Margeigh and Nirzar - carry over

• engineers: do code review every day, check comments - yes!

== Keep ==

• Cleaning up the tasks on the J board. +1+

== Stop ==

• Getting sick whilst travelling. Seriously.+100

• Navigation redesign getting merged into the master branch and preventing rollout of notifications+100+87+

• lack of communication, not keeping features in their own branches

• not used to working with 2 releases at once

• not aware of urgency around releasing nav

== Start ==

• A somewhat more regular cadence of releases - and re-scoping work so we can do that if possible.

• when start new release board and put tasks on it, name a target date for release and only take on tasks we're reasonably confident we can do by that date

• helps w/ dependencies on other teams (qa, research, etc)

• should check in with this along the way, esp during prioritizating meetings

• this topic comes up a lot; we should think more retrospectively about previous releases

• try this on the L board, see how it goes?

• Releasing

• Being on the product-all mailing list if you aren't already (email mneisler@wikimedia.org to be added)

• check that you are getting emails from this list

• Expensing a tea kettle for my desk. ;)

== Questions ==

• Design schedule?

• Carolyn filling in until end of year, Robin will start attending, Carolyn and Rita will be onboarding him

• will be official in Jan

== Action Items ==

• everyone: check that you're on the product-all list