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November 18, 2016

Previous Retrospective Actions

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  • [MICHAEL, STEPHEN] Get password for true crypt volume TO BE CARRIED OVER
  • [MAX] Reschedule grooming (around other rescheduling) DONE: Natalia will be in charge!
  • [MICHAEL] Make a spike ticket to explore the retrofit-mock module's networking error mocking capabilities and add more error cases to unit tests TO BE CARRIED OVER
  • [MAX] Reach out to Josh about shifting from traditional Scrum to a release-board or kanban-esque model DONE

Significant Events

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  • Moving on up to kanban+
  • Scrum Master handoff+
  • Firstt full sprint with Rita, I think+

Lacked

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  • DB's velocity a bit decreased

Learned

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  • Kanban stuff and things
  • No deploys on Fridays (, Saturdays, Sundays)
  • There's more Phab tickets than I thought

Loved

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  • Many of the Phab cards lately have been very granular
  • Pretty good momentum and stuff getting done across app and services
  • Minor goals being knocked out+
  • iOS and web working on services
  • Lots of good contributions to services
  • Cool to have our own designer

Longed For

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  • More stable CI
  • Mocked service tests
  • Scheduling resolution+

Questions

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  • MB: Are we getting anything out of Combined Apps Standup?

Action Items

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  • [MICHAEL, STEPHEN] Get password for true crypt volume
  • [MICHAEL] Make a spike ticket to explore the retrofit-mock module's networking error mocking capabilities and add more error cases to unit tests
  • [NATALIA] Reschedule grooming (around other rescheduling)
  • [STEPHEN] Create a tech debt Phab ticket for Mocked service tests

ASCII ART!

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