Hi everyone,
I just chatted to Vibha about how to improve how we iterate on designs.
Right now our process is that we decide what cards need designs in the
story review meeting, then we review the designs and estimate them in the
estimation meeting. This often leads to designs that need reviews going
unestimated, which leads to blocked cards sneaking into the current sprint.
To alleviate this, we're going to try having a design review meeting every
other Wednesday (i.e. the day before the estimation meeting). Vibha, I, and
the lead engineers will be present, and that'll be the time for the
engineers to give her feedback and generally reduce the number of cards
that go unestimated.
Monte, Vibha and I have chatted and we all agree it sounds like a worthy
investment of 30 minutes. We'll continually reassess whether the meeting
remains productive.
We won't do the meeting this week due to the quarterly planning. Please can
everyone review the designs on Trello for Sprint 35, as we're unblocked on
everything except two cards, which Vibha's working on now. :-)
Thanks!
Dan
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Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager for Platform and Mobile Apps
Wikimedia Foundation