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
Thanks for getting these notes out Dan.
Team, After chatting with Dan we came up with the following lists of new testing devices needed
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/DevicesWeWant
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
Currently the Design team has
* 1x Nexus4 * 1x iPod Touch * 1x iPad Mini
I checked in with Jared and he's set aside a budget for purchase of additional devices. Please check in with him for these.
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.
CC'ing Amir to see if its easier for him to pick one up locally (my preference) of if we should ship one.
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.
Two new iPod touches are sitting with me. I'll release them plus some other devices once i finish my audit.
--tomasz