S70 Retrospective

Date	Sep 6, 2023
In sprint	@Joyce Sato-Reinhold @Denis Dovganyuk @Duncan Brain @Sayaka Ono @Javier Antonio Hernandez De Paz @Gursimran Singh @David Trapp @Orangel Marquez @Loic Sans (joined on the 18th)@Kevin Cussen (joined on the 18th)
At retro	@Joyce Sato-Reinhold @Denis Dovganyuk @Duncan Brain @Kevin Cussen @Loic Sans @Sayaka Ono @David Trapp
Recording	Posted in Slack

Background

This retro is for the S70: Thursday, Sep 7th - Wednesday, Sep 20th

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 (S69) retro is here: https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/l/cp/hx3qk3vR

Retrospective

Discussion topics:

Use Jitsi instead of Zoom for internal calls? Reasoning is that it’s supporting open source and Zoom may be harvesting our voice and likenesses
- There exists other tools we could potentially use
  - Workadventure: Virtual Office & Remote Event Plateform | WorkAdventure
- @Joyce Sato-Reinhold: so long as the screen sharing is good, okay to try out others
- @Loic Sans : for design review, we can use Figma’s video call option
Proposal: ~1 Day per sprint no internal meetings
- For Duncan having meetings mid-day is a challenge
- Suggestion: Use Slack statuses more rigorously - turn off notifications and be unavailable for X hours
- Joyce felt that meetings are less distracting than async notifications - if we do a quiet day, it should be quiet across the board
- Sayaka feels there are some unnecessary meetings - if one person is going to tackle a bug, the whole team doesn’t need to be there.

Start doing	Stop doing	Keep doing	Shout outs

Start doing	Stop doing	Keep doing	Shout outs
	Using Stand-up to have longer discussions about functionality or design	Technical documents – this needs its own discussion though probably (creating jira issues from a confluence table for every new row )	@Joyce Sato-Reinhold because of her fearlessness in the face of trouble , every time when I find any bug, she doesn’t need to much time to understand how to fix this problem. And this is very inspiring. @Loic Sans for hitting the ground running the whole team for good decision-making during a period of uncertainty @Sayaka Ono for building so many beautiful UI components (and rolling with it when some of them got axed!) And also for SUCH A GOOD PERSISTED PATHS PRESENTATION

Action items:

Review previous retro’s action items

Who will triage bugs in Kevin’s absence? @Lite Farm

Tuesday after sprint start is a no meeting day and review after 2-sprints (@Lite Farm to add calendar reminder)

Only bugs that are candidates for patching production should be raised on a call (ratified!)

Retrospective on sprint scope technical documents (after Antonella’s arrival?) @Duncan Brain

@Lite Farm to set-up a discussions for proposing / discussing / reviewing sanity strategy