S67 Retrospective (August 2023 release)

Date	09 Aug 2023
In sprint	David Trapp Mwayanjana Bolokonya (Unlicensed) Carolina di Lello (Unlicensed) Duncan Brain Sayaka Ono Joyce Sato-Reinhold Denis Dovganyuk Gursimran Singh Iván Perdomo Lite Farm Shang Heng Mak Orangel Marquez Riddhi Battu Shubhleen Kaur Tatiana Chamorro Yu Tian Antonella Sgarlatta, Cristina, Alvaro Flores
At retro
Recording	Posted in Slack

Background

This retro is for the August 2023 release. Sanity began on Monday, July 31st and we released on Friday, July 4th.

Changes to /wiki/spaces/LITEFARM/pages/1339064341?
Changes to kanban structure or workflow? https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/LF/boards/10
Code freeze?
- separating bug squash from sanity?
Tester strategy
S66
- estimated story points
- google meets
- tech debt in every sprint
Friday release (why not wednesday/monday?)
Release more often - maybe instead discuss release more often

Start doing	Stop doing	Keep doing	Shout outs
Setting expectations inside the core team on processes in advance Code freeze before sanity week Fewer testers but more in-depth? Pause and reflect a moment longer before rebooting prod 🤔 Complete translations before sanity week Troubleshoot SurveyStack starting from the more basic elements before jumping into the most complex (codebase, export server, etc.)	Release one week after core feature Deploy twice	Early as possible code freeze Chilled music during retro	Denis Dovganyuk for making me feel so much more at ease about having tested every nook and cranny Joyce Sato-Reinhold for delivering delete crop plans in 1 sprint and handling a huge amount of the cascading effects associated with that feature