S80 Retrospective

Date	Feb 14, 2024
In sprint	@Anto Sgarlatta @Joyce Sato-Reinhold @Denis Dovganyuk @Duncan Brain @Sayaka Ono @David Trapp @Loic Sans @Kevin Cussen @Navdeep Dhammu @Calum Murray
At retro	@Duncan Brain @Lite Farm @Loic Sans @Sayaka Ono @Denis Dovganyuk @Anto Sgarlatta @Joyce Sato-Reinhold
Recording	Not recorded

Background

This retro is for the S80: Thursday, February 1st - Wednesday, February 14th

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 (S79) retro is here: S79 Retrospective

Discussion topics:

How are once a week stand-ups working for folks?

Scope of Monday discussion is the week or the day?
- Bot always daily? Meeting is weekly?

Monday morning prompts could be helpful
Daily dev meeting is helpful
Does non-dev have a similar concept?
What do we do when Monday is a holiday? Same thing on Tuesday?

Game day

Start doing	Stop doing	Keep doing	Shout outs

Start doing	Stop doing	Keep doing	Shout outs
Scope of Monday discussion is the week and @Lite Farm will put together a new bot for prompting this When Monday is a holiday, we’ll do the weekly check-in on Tuesday Game day at 12PM PT the day of grooming, no organizer (see game options)		Dev stand ups +1 No all team stand up except for Mondays +2 Planning poker with voting

Action items:

Review previous retro’s action items

@Lite Farm to put together a proposal on how team meeting cadence looks

Rollover action items from last time

@Denis Dovganyuk to begin labeling bugs with “Inconsistent reproducibility” and “Usability”

@Lite Farm to schedule a team discussion on the appropriate mechanisms for verifying a release will be successful (e.g. bug free)

Look into Jira: is there a way to calculate and track the portion of time spent on feature vs tech debt @Anto Sgarlatta

Make sure each sprint has a few tech debt tickets, even when the focus of the sprint is feature development @Anto Sgarlatta

@Anto Sgarlatta to discuss current implementation of app styling with @Loic Sans during next 1-on-1

Begin a Confluence doc on things you want to learn and things you’re interested in teaching and then schedule sessions around them @Anto Sgarlatta

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