CPS Retro - 02/07/2024

Participants

  • @Toine Siebelink 

  • @Lee Anjella Macabuhay

  • @Halil Cakal 

  • @Gerard Nugent 

  • @Sourabh Sourabh 

  • @Seán Beirne 

  • @Priyank Maheshwari 

  • @Daniel Hanrahan 

Retro Points

Some things to think about:

  1. What did we do well, that if we don’t discuss we might forget?

  2. What did we learn?

  3. What should we do differently next time?

  4. What still puzzles us?

  5. Which tools or techniques proved to be useful? Which not?

  6. What is our biggest impediment?

  7. If we could change 1 thing, what would it be?

  8. What caused the problems that we had recently?

  9. Which things went smoothly? Which didn’t?

 

Retro Summary

Actions from last retro

See Actions: CPS Retro - 04/06/2024

 

Owner

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Notes

Team Rating

Owner

Action

Notes

Team Rating

@David Donnelly 

(Escalation) To communicate with E to define roles/responsibilities in terms of epics/stories/prioritization decision making .

 

For next retro , hopefully to be resol;ved by meeting for next retro

 

@Daniel Hanrahan 

@Kolawole Adebisi-Adeolokun 

 

Cross team meeting on new way of implementing user story breakdown

To be done for next retro

> Didn't have time

 

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Clarify names on the tests (i.e. Integration tests) and create guidance for team

To be done for next retro

@Levente Csanyi - renaming folders right now 

 

@Daniel Hanrahan 

still need to follow up on use of Acceptance tests 

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TEAM

@Toine Siebelink 

@David McWeeney 

@Lee Anjella Macabuhay 

@Halil Cakal 

@Gerard Nugent 

@Sourabh Sourabh 

@Seán Beirne 

@Priyank Maheshwari 

@Daniel Hanrahan 

@Levente Csanyi 

 

 

On user stories - 

  • (E) be clear on acceptance criteria before starting especially when working with bugs

  • use right level of Jira creation i.e. 'user stories' 'sub tasks'

  • description on Gerrit for code reviews

> (E) has been better on writing acceptance criteria ; 

Steps to reproduce still needs to be provided though!

 

On bugs -

say 'NO' more often especially when there is not enough information!

**see note on point above

On release notes -

Update release notes with commits if possible

  • Note to add it on acceptance criteria (if it makes sense)

 

What went well ?

 

What didn't go well ?

 

Actions

Owner

Action

Notes

Due Date

Owner

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Notes

Due Date

@Lee Anjella Macabuhay 

@david.donnelly 

Call 'retrospect' like meeting with (E) to discuss ways of working with CPS team. 

CPS team has repetitive points from previous retrospective meetings that relates to the E team

Example of points to discuss

  • Priorities and planning

  • Ways of working with developers

 

Lack of communication and involvement needs to be resolved here.

Next retro

Jul 30, 2024 

@david.donnelly 

Follow up to ask Peter K or (E) regarding new team integration (for datajob)

 

 

@Toine Siebelink 

Update the wiki page for information about tests

There is an existing page regarding tests but has not been updated for a while.

Next retro

Jul 30, 2024 

@Kolawole Adebisi-Adeolokun @Daniel Hanrahan 

Cross team meeting on new way of implementing user story breakdown

From previous retro 

Next retro

Jul 30, 2024 

@Daniel Hanrahan 

Clarify names on the tests (i.e. Integration tests) and create guidance for team

From previous retro

Next retro

Jul 30, 2024 

 

Call outs

Discussion Notes:

  • Retros will now stay to be every 4 weeks but will now be for only 1 hour

    • Discussions shall be only about 'things we can control in the team'

  • Team reshuffling will be epic-based

  • Code structure will now be 'feature based'

    • This should be noted on grooming of user stories

    • Code reviewers should also review where code is placed

  • On accepting bugs, there shall be no exceptions on any items that needs to be provided before work is started on it (i.e. steps to reproduced should not be missed)

  • Keep everyone in team on loop on grooming, proposals and reviews regardless if they're working on the story or not (example. cm notification subscription missed to discuss points with other team that are not working on the epic story which led to not having a 'third eye' on the design)

 

Next Retro Date:

Jul 30, 2024