CAD Team Retrospective Takeaways

Team Commitments

Goals and tickets are a team commitment, not an individual commitment.
Dev team will take advantage of refinement to dig into language in stories and answer questions/remove ambiguity related to requirements.
Communication between Devs and QA helps keep the process moving smoothly
Questions about prioritization should be discussed daily during standup.
Action Item: Follow up on Accessibility training for Dev and QA.

Define team strategy and expectations for versioning
@Netal Patel and dev team to prioritize working with OutSystems to research/spin up an internal forge
Team to help @Rebecca Schneider make Project Plan a core part of the process
@Netal Patel to investigate Accessibility Training Opportunities between QA, Dev and Accessibility
Team to commit to more active communication and review in retrospectives
Team to commit to bringing up issues proactively

Dev team to walk through the Acceptance Criteria more deliberately in refinement
Dev: User stories needs to be broken down more in refinement and in advance (example: https://yaleits.atlassian.net/browse/CUS-13587 )
Raise red flag further in advance
Estimates need to reflect planning on working on one story at once

Ask more questions in refinement about specifics in implementation
- Example: “Search all text” - is this grant entity only, or all entities?
Involve other technical collaborators during initial planning phase, specifically around system architecture
- IE, Data Services
Versioning must be a part of all development moving forward to help with individual deployments
QA and Dev could include system/browser specifics in bugs/defects
Team needs to document standards and practices around PDFs
Action Item: Standardize and document process for ensuring versioning for all features moving forward

Action Item @Chris Cadden - review the design standard documents in the weekly dev meeting
Action Item: @Chris Cadden to collaborate with @Grecia Briseno to formalize standard documentation of design
Action Item: Dev team to commit to documenting reusable, successful tools in the moment
Action Item: Dev team to review Application Feature Inventory - https://yaleits.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CADKS/pages/4049371146
Action Item: @Nestor Rodriguez Ayala and @Chris Cadden to ensure that all documented standards (check lists and templates) include Security and Accessibility planning. If it does not yet exist, create documentation.

QA and Dev could include system/browser specifics in bugs/defects
Screen size and standard screen resolutions must be standardized & documented for testing and Devs

Action Item: @Selene Gutierrez and QA team to create standard documentation on process and templates/checklist for UAT
Action Item: @Selene Gutierrez , @Rosa Illescas and @Mauricio Espinoza to work with Omar to formalize Security and Accessibility standards
QA team to share their testing process

Impromptu deployments need to be documented, go through the change process, and signed off on internally before communicated to the client.

Action Item: Review Project Plan continuously and integrate dev feedback earlier in the process
@Rebecca Schneider to help standardize and publicize documentation across project deliverables
@Rebecca Schneider to present metrics based on estimation vs. actual during retrospectives moving forward
@Netal Patel and @Rebecca Schneider to define metrics to be reviewed
@Rebecca Schneider to review project plans on Mondays to allow for review and feedback of deployment schedule