Reading/Multimedia/Retrospectives/2017-12-21

Previous Action Items

• Cormac: Archive this and last retro
• Ramsey to continue to work with engineering team to set norms around absences and picking up the slack/coverage
• Pam (email): Explore better communication channels for feedback (IRC is the current default)
• Pam and Ramsey to talk about Product->Design->Engineering pipeline, starting with what is missing from user stories, try to get started with a loose process upon which we can iterate

What in the team's process is going well?

• haha, are we suffering from retro burnout? (end of year burnout)
  • ^ This is a good thing?
• We good, yo.
• I think things are fine
• We have a Blocked Column that helps clarify what is actually in-progress! +1

What in the team's process could be improved?

• Cormac & Matthias need +2 on 3d2png repo
• Nothing that I can think of
• As illustrated by recent events, our communication with outside teams as far as staffing/resources/attention may need to be...more aggressive

What in the team's process is confusing?

• Nothing at this moment
• How we acquire talent, even when we don't ask for it Right?

Action Items

• Pam to share out communication channels feedback
• Ramsey to breakdown user stories (we have some epics that could use attention)
• Ramsey to document Product-->Design-->Eng pipeline and share
• Mark: How do we get +2 permissions for Cormac and Matthias on 3d2png repo?
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Project_ownership#Requesting_repository_ownership
    • Submitted: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183480
      • Strong supported https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183480#3854659
• Matthias to archive retro