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Retrospective: Sprint Mac and Cheese

Emoji :clipboard: Overview

Reflect on past work and identify opportunities for improvement by following the instructions for the Retrospective Play.

Date

Aug 14, 2024

Team

CAD Team

Participants


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Emoji :goal: Goals

YSB: Complete first two levels of AI mentor studio issues. – Complete!

YSB: Complete Accessibility & Performance Testing – Complete!

YSB: Release 3.1 – Complete!

FAS: Send Divide General Funding - Startup/Research Feature to UAT – Complete!  (Ready for UAT, Final story may be sent to Linda after her PTO)

CEA: Finish Front End Updates – Dev complete! 

CEA: Complete QA Process for Stories coming from Caprese Salad –Initial review complete – Defects found, but Goal completed!

SDF: Complete all defects in Sprint – Incomplete – Blockers removed and team ready to complete remaining defects by mid-next sprint

  • Team met 8/13 to discuss next steps and confirm work to be completed.  The expectation of having this work done as first priority is clear.

FMP: FMS Med 3 - Identify and contact users & send instructions to Help Desk – Complete!

YAM: Figure Out Breakdown of the Counts – Blocked - Need Additional input from Daniel

Arts Cal: Architecture Document – Complete!

 

Emoji :thought_balloon: Retrospective

Add your Start doing, Stop doing, and Keep doing items to the table below. We'll use these to talk about how we can improve our process going forward.

Shout Outs

Struggles

Ideas

Commitments

Chris for all the help!

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Not taking QA Availability into account in sprint Planning Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:

Change how we do UI/UX stories. Carrying over many incomplete stories that are outside of our controlEmoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:

Team commits to having larger conversation about story size:

Ask Kim to help deliver larger stories (IE, making “Create, edit, view, delete” functionality all one story, eliminating separate popup stories)


Devs collaborate to create more/specific subtasks


This will also help with proper time tracking

Becky always stays positive and makes things happenEmoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:

Stories not ready

Plan for QA availability even if it means going slower Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:

Becki to commit to re-investigate Game Lunch

Rosa and Selene for helping prioritize work focused on releasesEmoji :check_mark:

Defects are created that block the original story, when they are not defects but improvements

Slightly larger tickets to cut down on duplication of Code Review, Unit Testing, Deployment, etc. subtasks which add up to extra money spent for clients. Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:

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Make more subtask instead of more stories when possible Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:

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Ask Kim to help deliver larger stories (IE, making “Create, edit, view, delete” functionality all one story, eliminating separate popup stories)


Devs collaborate to create more/specific subtasks


This will also help with proper time tracking

Ask Netal to investigate team outing!

Nestor for all his great work on the CEA visual refresh!

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Sometimes the Acceptance Criteria is ambiguousEmoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:

Peer review and feedback on Goals/performance throughout the year Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:

Investigate re-ordering statuses in the dropdown menu

Chris for thoroughly documenting the charting options for CEA clientsEmoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:

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Scope misunderstanding between clients and team for CEA project.Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:



QA for finding all the defects on CEA ASAP Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:

Dev work and QA work still not sync’d up for closure during sprint on certain tickets (leaving story points on the table) Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:



always available to help and support in anything OutSystems related or YSB

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Other projects too

Sometimes we are underestimating dev time for some stories/task



for all the mentoring and tutoring for my FY25 goal!Emoji :check_mark:

Lots more overhead/admin time with new ticket refinement process – less time for actual dev work.Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:Emoji :check_mark:



for tackling FRMS on this sprint in OutSystems

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Not enough QA resources to cover all the project work added into the sprint. Emoji :check_mark:











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