Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2016-09-23

September 23, 2016

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Previous Retrospective Actions

 * [DMITRY] Follow up with Sherah about user testing/userzoom
 * [MAX] Follow up on email thread for MCS-regression tag in Phab (talk to Bernd too) DONE
 * [MAX] Check in with JK: what are the explicit Q2 goals? Confusion around MCS. DONE
 * [MAX] Start thread with team to see how we can improve phab tagging next Q DUNZIEZ
 * [DMITRY/BERND] Add tasks to next or following sprint to improve rapid detection of outages DONE

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Significant Events

 * Beta release
 * Return of the Max+
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB1D9wWxd2w
 * Product/tech onsite
 * Sherah has started attending meetings+
 * Dmitry #carless

Lacked

 * A plan for getting UX debt into sprints/planning+

Learned

 * SN: We should be careful about signing up for tasks that are not fully fleshed out by other teams
 * We should resolve whether we're working on fundraising now or not
 * Might be best to talk about DR after initial designs from Nirzar/Design
 * Max is real good at ping-pong
 * (Beta) Users hate easy navigation! (j/k)

Loved

 * Prepopulated retro items+
 * Someone responded to an email over a year after it was sent and said something like "can't wait to try this out!" Wrong. You can wait. You did wait.
 * Tending of open phab tickets +1

Longed For

 * SN: A way to track how many hours we spend on spikes/timeboxes
 * Beta was major distraction (longed for it to be less of a distraction). I'm not sure when the last time I worked on something planned was. No time for 10% time.
 * Fewer open code reviews in app and service repos... There were a lot of patches but not enough reviewers
 * Better meeting planning
 * Better planning meeting. I feel in today's planning meeting we could have copied some tasks over ahead of time.
 * Less buggy beta, fewer last minute changes

Questions

 * Do we use "Design Doing"?
 * We should leverage our *production* alpha users before beta and regularlly? They exist in some number
 * Do we want to bump up min API level to 16?
 * Can we merge the crash report template into the bug report template?

Action Items

 * [MAX] Make a menu link to regression tag on MCS board DONE
 * [STEPHEN] We should resolve whether we're working on fundraising in Q2 or not
 * [dmitry] step up PMage