Previous Retrospective Actions[edit]

Set up quarterly "unstructured sprint" [Kristen/Dan] not urgent, will carry over. Quarterly planning sprint may be our unstructured sprint :-)
Give Vibha & Moiz iTunes account login access [Tomasz]; Waiting on Design iTunes account [Vibha] DONE
Give Vibha & Moiz access to data about user actions [Dan] OBSOLETE
Set up monthly apps data review meeting [Dan/Vibha] will be resch'ed
Blog post and social media to recruit testers [Monte/Vibha/Moiz/Dmitry]
Explore paid testing services [Tomasz] to be continued
- we will also likely be getting 1 FTE QA tester within a month
- what will iOS/Android split look like? TBD

Worked Well[edit]

Nearby feature completed+1
Beta/prod releases of Android app continue to be painless
Android Alpha self-update notification http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikipedia-android-builds/ Instructions on how to use the testing stuff for Android: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_app+1
iOS 8 fix sprint got a lot of stuff done
Team flexibility about dropping all our work to do iOS 8 compatibility fixes+1
Hijacking app release notes to recruit beta testers!+1
- 20 -> 160 testers!!
- we will switch to official open beta channel when available
3.5 stars
Dan's hacking on the Android code base+1+1
Starting bimontly guerilla research

Worked Poorly[edit]

iOS 8 fix sprint delayed other stuff
god damn Apple took forever to get that update out and now is sitting on the next one. Grr! +1
Lack of certainty about access to analytics -- led to unnecessary work (session eventlogging)+1+1+1+1
- Had a story about logging a normal user session
- implemented with eventlogging, but this info is available via Analytics, duplication of effort
- don't think this will happen again with Analytics; Toby is aware of issues with getting access
- issues around mobile/analytics have been clarified
- Maryana is mobile single point of contact/Dario is analytics single point of contact
Activity based work must be limited, we need to switch to goal based models
If mockups exist please link to them from the Trello cards. That should happen BEFORE we estimate the card, not after I'm halfway done with implementation.+1+1+1
- Bernd learned that there was a design available after he already implmented the card
- there is a board with 'latest designs', but it's a big board
- make sure we link to design board from actual task
- Design review meeting: invite all, move a little earlier? [Dan]
Short-term cancellation of meetings is pretty annoying. Don't wait until last second to move it.
Need more Android-specific designs. I know there is a tendency to apply a one-fits all design for all platforms but it may not always be appropriate. +1+1+1+1+1
- specifically ToC
- Dan and Vibha agree
- second design iteration worked
- create designs fro both platforms (even if one is not goign to work on it) [Vibha]
Copy and pasting retrospective notes changes the font. :(
Feedback from extra beta testers through TestFlight now means we have one too many feedback channels (ship it to OTRS!)+1+1
- Can we get feedback from testflight -> OTRS? [MONTE/DAN]
- If not, we need to figure out how to handle the channels
Violating apple's/Testflight's ToS :) (whoops!)
Delay before we learn about how users are behaving+1
- does anyone care about the numbers after we release stuff?
- need a single page to get these numbers easily, resistance from analytics
- or we need to get more resources
- get clarification from Howie about how we operate [Vibha]
Things sititng in beta without concrete plan +1+1+1
- things that are almost there, but we lose track of them (eg disambiguation)
- need to keep better track of this
- what does it take to get something to production?
- what does Dan need to verify readiness?
- software testing AND usability testing (separate issue, QA can help!)
- let's meet to come up with a plan to tackle this problem/figure out our team practices [Kristen]

Confuses Us[edit]

How do we collect/review suggestions and issues from reviews and beta feedback?
What else might Google want, in terms of improving the app in order to be Featured? (I guess better tablet specific design)
Apple
When are we getting back to goal based work
IOS developer