S97 Retrospective

 

Date

October, 9th 2024

In sprint

@Denis Dovganyuk @David Trapp @Larisse Cavalcante @Duncan Brain@Joyce Sato-Reinhold @Loic Sans @Divya Chayanam@Anto Sgarlatta @Sayaka Ono

At retro

@Denis Dovganyuk @David Trapp @Larisse Cavalcante @Duncan Brain@Joyce Sato-Reinhold @Loic Sans @Divya Chayanam@Anto Sgarlatta @Sayaka Ono

Recording

Not recorded

Background

This retro is for S97:

Thursday, September 26th

Wednesday, October 9th

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 (S96) retro is here:

Discussion topics:

  • Holiday break

    • Previously, we have done 2 weeks. Are we planning to do that again this year?

    • Confirmed: Thurs Dec 19 - Jan 1st (taking exactly one Sprint); return Thurs Jan 2nd

    • Related: support coverage over these two weeks

      • Could be paired with a modification of the automated response… maybe… so email doesn’t have to be checked daily

        • But would need to be translated

        • Several email addresses' responses would need to be adjusted

    • Technical coverage / on call during the break? Have we done this before?

      • We will coordinate phone numbers

  • Malayalam translations?

    • Still at 83% translated / 70% approved; @David Trapp still in communication with + supporting translators daily

      • Can more onboarding material help decrease the follow-up support?

      • Context for more strings

    • Non-latin scripts taking a lot more of @Loic Sans's time in InDesign

    • What is going to happen for future releases, e.g. Animals?

      • Can Malayalam run on a different (longer) deadline than the other languages?

  • Team update on language SOP

Start doing

Stop doing

Keep doing

Shout outs

Start doing

Stop doing

Keep doing

Shout outs

  • Learn what Hollywood square is:

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  • Manage roadmap & backlog features in Productboard and link to Jira issues

  • Putting pop culture discussions in retro

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  • Technical scoping to meet deadlines between @Anto Sgarlatta @Divya Chayanam @Loic Sans @David Trapp

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Action items:

Review previous retro’s action items
LF Support team to coordinate coverage over holiday break @David Trapp
@Joyce Sato-Reinhold to put holiday in the calendar

Rollover action items from last time

Finalize and scope approach to feature releases without translations as a blocker @Divya Chayanam @Anto Sgarlatta
Continue SOP for languages @David Trapp @Divya Chayanam
@Divya Chayanam when completed to quickly show team irrigation in Product Board
@Divya Chayanam to (at some point) migrate feature request tickets into Product Board