Sprint Goals
FRMS 3.1 - Close remaining feature stories - Allocated Complete New work added
Yale Directory - Deploy to all environments and get ISO to re-scan - Complete
TAR - Deploy TAR Changes - Complete
YSB - Complete advanced search functionality - incomplete
YSB - Add Advanced Search to Hamburger Menu - DEV CompleteNot QA Complete
YPH-CEA - Identify solution for PDF Report issue - Complete
FMP - FMS1 Update 2/6 - Complete
YIM - Faculty Web Interface Complete - Complete
SoA - Planning Complete - Complete
App Manager - Deploy to Production - Completeissues identified
SDF - Complete Architecture Documentation - incomplete
SDF - AI Mentor Studio Testing complete - incomplete
IIIF - Goal TBD - incomplete
FAS - 2.5.4 Feature Complete - Complete
UI/UX - Review Figma updates - incomplete
UI/UX - Review Poster Board - incomplete
All planned work will be completed by 2/12, including development and testing - incomplete
General team feedback:
Checkboxes and Gherkin Method
Devs - continue to look out. Positive feedback and helpful change
QA - Helpful to imagine possible outcomes
What prevented us from getting the planned work done?
Priorities changed during the sprint - YIM Application - Client needs reprioritized
Not enough research planned for new features
Defects and stories
Issues found pre-deployment - additional testing by Dev and QA in advance of deployment
Support issues came up but tasks were not removed
SDF Work fallen through the cracks due to team turnover - Luis handover
Offboarding process? Documentation as work is completed?
FRMS 3.1 - Close remaining feature stories
Lessons Learned:
Development Team - Versioning can be more complex than a simple check - make sure to estimate accordingly and share with the team.
Review code before estimating
Development Team and QA - Versioning requires additional testing that we are not currently executing
Development Team - Versioning - Post-launch cleanup of versioning needs to be planned for for Dev and QA team (smoke test)
Every release should include a post-launch task of version clean up
QA Team - Prioritize stories that are ready for UAT to provide time for client changes.
Wins:
QA team anticipated possible client feedback and helped work proactively on potential issues.
Yale Directory - Deploy to all environments and get ISO to re-scan
Lessons Learned
Process reliant on external teams & will require CAD to drive
TAR - Deploy TAR Changes - No tickets
Wins:
Slam dunk! Fast deploy with no issues.
YSB - Complete advanced search functionality
YSB: Close all 4.2 tasks -
Lessons Learned 4.2:
Development Team - Removed Button Functionality
Challenge Assumptions and smoke test functionality (Edit and Add button)
Development and QA Team - Pre-deployment validation and smoke testing
Dedicated pre-launch smoke testing of environment to be deployed (load test)
Lessons Learned 4.3:
Development Team - New functionality built for the first time - very difficult to estimate and plan for
How can we “revisit” things - getting things working != the best, most maintainable version
Wins 4.3:
Development Team - Additional research tasks are being identified during refinement to help normalize
Communication around issues has improved
YSB: Advanced Search Hamburger Menu
Tip-o-the-hat: @Kristian Rivera-Santiago for identifying and proactively working on issues that he discovered during development and testing
CEA: Finish Print View -
Lessons Learned:
Team Thoughts: Perfection is not always an attainable or the best outcome
Our team was trying to fix issues that were present in the charting library
Dev and QA team - Opportunities to test lost throughout feature development
As charts were developed, report was not tested
By the time we reached the end, there were significant changes implemented
Dev Team - Planning for Research and creating research subtasks is very important.
Dev Team - Let’s develop best practices around PDF reports and accessibility and implement them during the initial design process
IE, we don’t need to print buttons, drop downs, etc
Dev Team and QA - for highly complex or have gone back and forth to testing many times, 1:1 meetings between testers and devs can be very helpful
Team Thoughts:
Can we get UI/UX feedback on features that have given us trouble?
PDFs, Excel Exports, Charts
FMP - FMS1 Update 2/6
YIM - Faculty Web Interface Complete
YSoA - Planning Complete
SDF: Close all Maintenance Tasks-
What can we do better next time?