2020-08-18 Retrospective Spitfire

Owned by Oleksii Petrenko
Last updated: Aug 18, 2020
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Date
Participants

Oleksii Petrenko Khalilah Gambrell Carole Godfrey Natalia Zaitseva  Denys Bohdan maksym_dryha Владислав Велицкий Yelyzaveta Khokhlova  


Retrospective


What did we do well?

  • Appreciate FE team for accessibility checks in to the process
  • Flexibility with requirements
  • A lot of FE work in backlog with tech debt
  • RMB has been migrated to OpenJDK11  
  • Great job of the team
  • New team member
  • Natalia provide great job with spike and make excellent documentation
  • Smooth on-boarding process

What should we have done better?

  • Issue with MOD-USER-IMPORT: Expectation of user is contradict with team's one
  • Max is leaving - Max pain for the team :(
  • Validate prepared stories quicker when it is deployed to Snapshort environment

Actions

  • Validate prepared stories quicker when it is deployed to Snapshort environment → Khalilah Gambrell patty.wanninger
  • Issue with MOD-USER-IMPORT: Expectation of user is contradict with team's one
    • Validate requirements by User Management SIG group or PO(Ian Walls) from MOD-USER-IMPORT before presenting them to the team → Khalilah Gambrell

July 2020

  • Bugfix release cause misunderstanding when working with different jira projects and different git projects.
  • Post new process instruction to Spitfire channel
  • Need stabilize release process

June 2020

  • Prepare possible plan for extending current testing approach → Denys Bohdan maksym_dryha Владислав Велицкий  
    • Verify affected areas manually → Team
    • Report issues to stripes team while development → Team
    • Check all acceptance criteria while dev testing → Team, Khalilah Gambrell
    • Sync with BE team and dependency detection → Team
  • Part of definition of done (Include accessibility testing to testing activities by FE team) → Oleksii Petrenko
  • Run accessibility checker more frequently and include it to CI pipeline (Run once in the sprint by FE team) → FE team
  • Clarify more carefully hidden scenarios in acceptance criteria → Team, Khalilah Gambrell
  • Create stories more carefully to avoid situation that we missed some at the end → Team, Khalilah Gambrell
  • Include to release preparation plan interface update for 2 weeks before release deadline (Bump up latest version of interfaces were too later) → Oleksii Petrenko