Hi everyone,
The Mobile Apps team met for our monthly retrospective. With Tomasz out at
Google I/O, I temporarily filled in as scrum master in addition to my
product owner role.
The full notes are archived on
mediawiki.org
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/imported/Retrospective-June_26_2014#Confuses_Us>
.
Action points from this meeting:
- We're suffering from device shortage. Dan will follow-up with Tomasz
(in his role as Director) about this. In particular:
- The designers would like more Android devices so they can
familiarise themselves with Android design patterns.
- We'd like the language team, a very mobile-heavy team, to have iOS
devices so they can diversify their own testing of the app.
- Dan uses his iOS phone and Android tablet for all testing. He'd
like iOS tablets and Android phones to be more available in the office so
he can test on more platforms.
- Product and engineering have felt kind of separated from design, and
vice-versa. We all think we can make refinements to break this divide.
Vibha is going to own this improvement, but we all agreed trying to get iOS
out of the door is higher priority right now.
- We're focussed on the current sprint very well, but our planning for
two or three sprints into the future is poor. I think the blame is on me
for this here. Dan is going to own improving the backlog even further so
the roadmap is clearer.
- We need to meet sooner rather than later to discuss the iOS release
and whether we're comfortable going ahead with it, and what our criteria
for whether it's "ready" are. Dan will set this up.
- We need to talk about how often we release. Yuvi will lead a
discussion on mobile-l.
Thanks everyone!
Dan
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Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager for Platform and Mobile Apps
Wikimedia Foundation