2014-04-16 Dev tools and data/resource management¶

Retrospective notes¶

Timing

• Longer review meeting (always goes into overtime) → extended to 1.5 hours.
• Later review meeting (Pacific Time friendly) → moved.

Kick-off

• Focus on assigning stories

Demos presented by individual developers

• Explicit preparation
• Make screen shots along the way (even during development!) so you have material to present
• Add "screen shots" to before-you-merge checklist?

Backlog visibility

• Update the story progress better! Lots of stuff sticks at "New" when it's actually inprogress or done.

FINISH EARLIER DANGIT¶

• Tuesday night is the end. In Wednesday sprint review, "almost done" is pronounced "not done".

Branches and stories

• Review comments generally go on stories
• But if you have a big story, you might not want a giant branch/review/merge
• Then you shouldn't have a big story! Recognize that, and split the story.

Take your tasks! Unassigned tasks are everybody's problem, according to redmine's "my tasks" view.