Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2016-11-18

November 18, 2016

Previous Retrospective Actions

 * [MICHAEL, STEPHEN] Get password for true crypt volume TO BE CARRIED OVER
 * [MAX] Reschedule grooming (around other rescheduling) DONE: Natalia will be in charge!
 * [MICHAEL] Make a spike ticket to explore the retrofit-mock module's networking error mocking capabilities and add more error cases to unit tests TO BE CARRIED OVER
 * [MAX] Reach out to Josh about shifting from traditional Scrum to a release-board or kanban-esque model DONE

Significant Events

 * Moving on up to kanban+
 * Scrum Master handoff+
 * Firstt full sprint with Rita, I think+

Lacked

 * DB's velocity a bit decreased

Learned

 * Kanban stuff and things
 * No deploys on Fridays (, Saturdays, Sundays)
 * There's more Phab tickets than I thought

Loved

 * Many of the Phab cards lately have been very granular
 * Pretty good momentum and stuff getting done across app and services
 * Minor goals being knocked out+
 * iOS and web working on services
 * Lots of good contributions to services
 * Cool to have our own designer

Longed For

 * More stable CI
 * Mocked service tests
 * Scheduling resolution+

Questions

 * MB: Are we getting anything out of Combined Apps Standup?

Action Items

 * [MICHAEL, STEPHEN] Get password for true crypt volume
 * [MICHAEL] Make a spike ticket to explore the retrofit-mock module's networking error mocking capabilities and add more error cases to unit tests
 * [NATALIA] Reschedule grooming (around other rescheduling)
 * [STEPHEN] Create a tech debt Phab ticket for Mocked service tests

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