Wikimedia Apps/imported/Retrospective-October 16 2014

= Previous Retrospective Actions =

Outstanding items from previous (previous) retrospective:
 * Contact Maryana/Dario for any analytics-related issues [ALL]
 * Jon (new member of PM group) will be joining "in the background" to examine mobile data as part of his onboarding; not sure what long-term plan is yet
 * Dan will be meeting with Howie et al later to get clarity on Jon's role
 * Make sure that mocks are linked to sprint task from design board [Vibha] DONE, ONGOING
 * Invite all team members to design review meeting (leads required, others optional); move meeting to an earlier time if possible [Dan] DONE
 * Create designs for iOS AND Android (even if one team will not be working on the feature) [Vibha] DONE, ONGOING
 * Figure out how to get feedback from testflight to OTRS [Monte/Dan] TABLED
 * investigated, but not solved
 * Dan is reading test flight reviews, OK if we don't to respond to all
 * Clarify expectations about pre- and post-release analytics with Howie [Vibha] DONE
 * Meet to discuss a better process for tracking what features are in beta and what it takes to get them to production [Kristen] DONE
 * see Dan's email about release process/timing
 * Set up monthly apps data review meeting [Dan/Vibha] TABLED
 * Jon will be addressing some of this, let's see how it goes
 * discuss analytics needs with Lila; can we clarify if there are resources for apps?
 * first we need to know what we want: eg one-click access to all apps schema data
 * Blog post and social media to recruit testers [Monte/Vibha/Moiz/Dmitry] IN PROGRESS
 * Dan is reviewing

= Worked Well =


 * being at the office! +1+1+1
 * Having developer team come talk to users with design and research +1
 * house of air!!!!111+1 <--designers you missed out
 * iOS refactored code is much cleaner +1+1
 * Android refactored code is awesome+1+1
 * Unstructured Sprint +1+1
 * Dan had fun doing more coding for Android
 * Hacks that come out of unstructured time +1+1++1
 * Monte and Dmitry doing a blog post
 * brainstorming about the future of Wikipedia on mobile devices with everyone
 * Quarterly planning +1+1+1
 * might be useful to do this earlier
 * longer offsite would be great
 * Dan in the process of handing off SUL work to Keegan +1 +1

= Worked Poorly =
 * analytics bla bla bla +1
 * iOS refactoring has run overtime +1+1+1
 * see " IOS devs are overworked"
 * NO REGRETS!
 * Android refactoring run a bit overtime
 * missing Yuvi

= Confuses Us =
 * analytics - consult with tomasz?
 * IOS Recruitment? IOS devs are overworked +1+1+1+1
 * mobile web recruitment done, iOS now priority
 * Tomasz agreed to 2 iOS devs
 * Apple. :P More release woes as their sstem updates and occasionally breaks. +1
 * "Project Lead for Mobile" vs "Product Owner for Mobile Apps"
 * Meeting with Howie to clarify
 * Owning technical research
 * tech lead owns? can delegate
 * wikidata is a concern overall, acknowledged by sr mgmt+1+1+1+1+1+1+1
 * see Maryana's wikidata asks
 * has been shared w/directors, damon, lila
 * need to keep the pressure on
 * generate laundry list of use cases that are dependent on wikidata
 * brign up w/directors on one-on-one
 * bring to Damon
 * structured data shoudl be #1 priority, even over mobile
 * it's our need to make mobile work well! keep talking up structured data needs
 * start implementing things to drive development on their end