S71 Retrospective

Date	Oct 4, 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	@David Trapp @Lite Farm @Loic Sans @Sayaka Ono @Duncan Brain @Anto Sgarlatta (Welcome!) @Denis Dovganyuk
Recording	Posted in Slack

Background

This retro is for the S71: Thursday, Sep 21st - Wednesday, Oct 4th

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 (S70) retro is here: S70 Retrospective

Retrospective

Discussion topics:

New opinions on Jitsi?
- No new opinions - continue testing internally
- Google Meet wasn’t great for several reasons - background sounds, poor screen share quality / experience
- Sayaka will try the desktop app next time
New opinions on “No meeting Tuesday”
- Get better with your Slack statuses people! Clarify if you’re completely heads down, open to meet, etc.
- Proposal to expand from sprintly to weekly

Start doing	Stop doing	Keep doing	Shout outs

Start doing

Stop doing

Keep doing

Shout outs

Hollistic approach to design - hopefully realized with livestock
Use Slack statuses more proactively for your “availability” during the day - if you’re aware from your device for > 20 minutes, please note for the team
Using the word “Graos” (Graceful chaos) more often

Respecting the stand-up meeting process
No meeting Tuesdays

@Anto Sgarlatta for hitting the ground running and doing a fantastic job!!!

@Loic Sans for picking up the work from the previous designer mid-sprint and responding to/solving ALL of our design issues
To everyone for welcoming me into the team
To the dev guys for taking the disruption of a new designer mid sprint so nicely.
@Loic Sans for very thoughtful designs and flexibility for jumping into an active development process
@Denis Dovganyuk for consistently figuring out how to crater beta so that a user doesn’t do that for us on prod

Action items:

Review previous retro’s action items

Evaluate moving no meeting day from sprintly to weekly – WEEKLY!

Actually stand up during stand-up? – moved to next sprint

@Lite Farm to add Jitsi link to stand-up to gain sustained experience with the tool – the hunt for a Zoom alternative continues. Jitsi is no good @Loic Sans and @Joyce Sato-Reinhold had horrible experiences with the desktop app

Who will triage bugs in Kevin’s absence? @Lite Farm – will happen in backlog refinement meeting with @David Trapp present

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

added to tomorrows tech daily agenda to discuss meeting time

Write-up for how to handle sensitive bugs both from core team and community @Duncan Brain