Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2015-12-04

= ANDROID = December 4, 2015

Previous Retrospective Actions

 * Send email about learnings from Proguard / Support lib / MapView [Dmitry] NOT DONE
 * Weekly digest of funny/positive Play Store feedback [Dmitry] DONE
 * "Stars from Midnight"
 * "The Midnight Copy"
 * Email thread: How reading strategy will effect android team [KAITY] DONE
 * Investigate mentorship (and product) opportunities (related to GSOC/Outreachy/Israel) [Q3&4 PLANNING?]

Loved

 * ET: Love the sense of completeness in android app - both in design and stability (+KH)
 * Dmitry’s presentation of the latest with the app (+ response) (mdh)
 * MB: Team covered Elena while she was out

Learned

 * [db] try to have more foresight in anticipating design changes in complex tasks
 * KH Trying to balance long term design thinking with quick improvements

Longed for

 * Bernd +1+1+1+1 (looking forward to return of the bernd!)
 * ET: more time for qa :( - somehow the end of a sprint comes too soon every time

Action Items

 * Send email about learnings from Proguard / Support lib / MapView [Dmitry]
 * Production-release-cadence digest of funny/positive Play Store feedback [Dmitry]
 * "Stars from Midnight"
 * "The Midnight Copy"

= iOS = December 7, 2015

Previous Retrospective Actions

 * Bump up QA column WIP? Evaluate WIP (email) [TEAM] DONE
 * Batch move all alpha tagged, resolved tasks in PM signoff to released column [MAX] DONE
 * Make a devops ticket for investigating travis [BRIAN] DONE

Worked Well

 * Major cleanup of bug backlog YEAH!+1+1
 * Hard stop on beta tickets
 * Board filters+1
 * Putting relevant specs on tickets/PRs (I hope?)
 * I've been liking putting screenshots on pr's

Worked Poorly

 * Scheduling estimation meeting is hard
 * Possible Designers can move their weekly meeting up by 30 min?
 * CI being all weird. But hopefully fixed now
 * Estimation meeting over discussions
 * Loss of focus on beta tasks

Confuses Us

 * WIP limit for "Blocked or Waiting"
 * Are WIP limiters something we don't need?
 * Balancing team need for delivery, org need for user value, personal mental bandwidth for decision making and standards of quality/aspirations
 * points/icons disappearing from phabulabutabulator

Actions Items

 * Design to rejigger design meeting to squeeze in estimation [MAX TO EMAIL]
 * Email thread about subtasks vs. checklists vs. breaking up tasks [MAX TO EMAIL]