Readers/Web/Team/Retrospectives/2015-08-04

= Notable Events = Wikimania ended

Team heath check

= Absences = Joaquin vacation 3 days

Sam out

= Previous retro actions = KL to follow up on lost etherpad :-(

= Worked Well =
 * Tulum
 * Working with Dan Duvall on QA stuff - getting mobile setup on JJB [jenkins job builder]
 * Jon's attention to browser tests
 * Sprint speed raising, more story points
 * Joaquin PMing, making the tough calls
 * QA Day
 * Standup Re-jig (+++ no meeting fridays! 👏👍)(not for me :-(keep calm and interview more candidates)
 * Working with Adam to push forward on strategy process
 * Sleeping

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=Worked Not Well =
 * Mosquitoes +++& horse flies (and sand fleas? I rememeber those in Tulum...)(just saw giant turtles on the sand, no fleas)1st world problems
 * Dev & master branch separation (should we do it?)+
 * Joaquin wants to knwo how the team feels abotu this, needs a maintainer/owner
 * Dev team really silent through retro creepy silence
 * Vagrant is at 100% cpu. Created a task, no one replied. Did you follow up in person? No(vagrant destroy; git pull on vagrant folder, vagrant up - created a new instance multiple times, didn't help either.)(will kill your data on the wiki)(update virtualbox, & guest additions of the virtual image should match version done that)(<- thinks i tried) ping bd808 or Dan Duvall for needed follow up+
 * Offsite planning [12th or 19th October seems to be the best date]+++﬩

= Confuses = = TOP ITEMS =
 * state of offsite: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106357
 * Phab megaboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/readership-web/board/
 * Nothing worked well or not well or confuses anybody this sprint
 * Lack of a long term goal to guide us (what are we for?)++++⥾
 * Dropping cards that we couldn't finish at the end of the sprint. Context switching cost?++
 * Can't use my personal address on irccloud because i connected the wikimedia team
 * Lack of a long term goal to guide us (what are we for?)++++⥾�
 * RM: Still feels like we're the mobile team...when do we get more global
 * JOH: quick surveys are one of the first thigns we're doing on mobile and desktop to gather reading data
 * JDLR: feel slike we're preparing for something...but not sure what it is; eg what are the surveys for? Where do we see ourselves in a year's time; "switching master -> dev bramnch" not inspiring; feels liek we'r not using our full potential
 * JOH: was hard to be at Wikimania and have no good answer for what the team does
 * AB: agree it woudl have been nice to get strategy sooner; if you feel concerned about where we need to go as an org/vertical, please get involved; a time to have your voice heard and question assumptions. Open question around what feature to rally around in Q2.
 * Action! circle back to this topic post-strategy kickoff at next retro to see how we ar feeling then. [TEAM]


 * Offsite planning [12th or 19th October seems to be the best date]+++﬩
 * Action! Email Rachel and Quim (Phab doesn't seem to be effective) [KL]
 * Action! Meet to figure out next steps, try to get travel sorted within next ten days [JO/KL]
 * Note Baha location in October


 * Dropping cards that we couldn't finish at the end of the sprint. Context switching cost?++
 * The work was more complicated than originally estimated; we made a spike to try to unblock the progress
 * Pages for staging task was backlogged for now until we can get enough information to reestimate/reschedule
 * Action! Review Reading Web Planning board to see what's coming up and weigh in [TEAM]
 * Phab megaboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/readership-web/board/
 * What goes in the planning board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading_web_planning/? EPICS
 * Action! Move MFE tasks/bugs MFE project; create queries for high prio bugs/triage [JOH]