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Sprint Retrospective
- What went well?
- Managed to complete sprint despite people out of the office or occupied with other projects
- Routine/process is coming together
- Risk manifest itself, but still got a lot of stuff done
- Encountered and overcame non-trivial hurdles
- Nice balance of skills in the team
- Developed working relationship with the Nebula team
- What went wrong?
- Over-committed to the point of frustration
- Knew there were risks, had a plan b, wanted to push to get things done but couldn't because of people out of the office
- Shutting down on the 20th and going with plan B, instead of trying to push through until the last moment possible
- Technology is new and moving - figure out if we need the newest and greatest
- Nebula
- a log file filled up that slowed things down
- Couldn't run tests in parallel for a week
- We have a definition and estimation problem
- Estimation is hard because the definition isn't well defined
- Account for unforeseen issues
- Tasks sat in review
- Workflow not universally understood and accepted
- Over-committed to the point of frustration
- What could we do to improve?
- Better job of defining the tasks
- Each person defines their own tasks
- Better job of estimating the tasks
- Don't commit unless you know exactly what needs to be done
- Commit must include review tasks
- Part of your job is to review other tickets
- Pair reviewing when possible
- Don't pull an item into Sprint until all developers understand the work that needs to be done
- This will help with handing off tickets (or taking on additional work)
- This will help with reviews
- Better job of defining the tasks
- Commitments:
- Keep doing
- Keep following and refining the process (everything being done)
- Start doing
- Better planning
- Account for review gap
- Account for planning gap
- Each person defines their own tasks (provide time in the sprint for this)
- Better estimating
- Better planning
- Stop doing
- Overcommitting
- Everyone review the workflows, meet and refine as needed
- Keep doing