S58 Retrospective

Date	Mar 8, 2023
In sprint	@Mwayanjana Bolokonya (Unlicensed) @David Trapp@Lite Farm @Duncan Brain @Carolina di Lello (Unlicensed) @Gursimran Singh @Sayaka Ono@Javier Antonio Hernandez De Paz @Joyce Sato-Reinhold
At retro	@Lite Farm @Mwayanjana Bolokonya (Unlicensed) @David Trapp @Javier Antonio Hernandez De Paz @Duncan Brain @Carolina di Lello (Unlicensed) @Sayaka Ono @Joyce Sato-Reinhold

Background

This retro is for S58: Thursday, February 23rd - Wednesday, Mar 8th

Please add comments before the meeting! We’ll take a few minutes to add additional comments and discuss, then put together action items to operationalize suggestions.

Last sprints (S57) retro is here: S57 Retrospective (2023-02-22)

Retrospective

S57 Discussion topics:

Thoughts on an official process for verification refactoring? @Duncan Brain
- Especially for transferring ownership tickets and non-trivial refactors? (for example Irrigation task refactor, sensor readings refactor) it can be hard to pick up someone's work at 95% complete and to know what the last 5% is without specific guidance.
- Problem: it’s hard to know what the right scope for a refactor is since it can be like peeling an onion
- Proposed solution for refactors require the following definitions:
  1. Any bugfixes that need to be made as part of scope
  2. Latitude to make wider ranging architectural changes within a certain estimation (e.g. 1 - 3 points)
  3. Documentation in additional tickets of any other bugs / recommendations found that weren’t in addressed in i or ii
Update on automating reviews

Start doing	Stop doing	Keep doing	Shout outs

Start doing	Stop doing	Keep doing	Shout outs
		Excellent job from the programming team. Love opening Beta and seeing a bunch of new things.	@Duncan Brain !!! Phenomenal job Zohoing!!! think, by the end we’ll have an incredibly useful new tool to assist with contact and donor management, outreach success, and user communication. @Duncan Brain for facilitating sprint planning and collab last sprint @Javier Antonio Hernandez De Paz for patiently correcting my mistakes on a ticket and referring applicants for the Tech Lead role @Mwayanjana Bolokonya (Unlicensed) for 100% Verification → Validation ratio this sprint (so far) @David Trapp for developing partnerships like a BOSS @Sayaka Ono for being an incredible team player and always having time to support her colleagues @Joyce Sato-Reinhold for really owning SSO. What seemed to be a small-ish change has blossomed into numerous well defined and scoped problems. Way to follow through and bring the team along with your evolving understanding. @Sayaka Ono and @Duncan Brain for the tech lead search support

Action items:

@Lite Farm to write-up script to auto-assign PRs to “Reviewers” team

@Lite Farm refactor process