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Retrospective



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What did we do well?

  • Continue
    • Keeping tickets up to date
  • Appreciate
    • Revenue Project work
  • Revenue Project Work
  • Keeping tickets up to date
    • What if we can update the ticket every 2nd / 3rd day?
      • Update:
        • When we have an update +1
        • Blocked:
          • Update to the reporter that we are still waiting on XYZ
      • Benefit: 
        • Farhanah won't be tagged and pinned
        • It's a good general practice to keep the ticket updated.
        • Khubsurat +1
        • No update is a bad update (smile)


  • Not only technical help but we need other help on the blocked ticket.
  • Blocked or
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    What should we have done better?

    • Start
      • How to effectively share standup status?Know what are our expectations of our Technical Manager?
      • Monthly 1-hour meeting with both Sustaining teams 
      • Not tracking Blocked/Waiting on Reporter times
      • Expectations from New Product Manager (Abstract)
      • Backlog Grooming → Backlog → Prioritized 
      • Use "Internal Only" with Jira
      • Use Engineering Calendar for Annual Leaves. 
      • Daily standup 
    • Stop
    • Others
    Know what are our expectations of our Technical Manager?Daily Standup 
    • More
      • Importance of Giving and receiving feedback
      • Follow Security Fix Process 
    • Others
      • Schedule and plan for Triage Board.
      • Waiting on Reporter
  • Follow up in person / Ping individuals on slack
  • New Feature help and help setup knowledge share with the team
  • Updates from Cambridge +1
  • Code Review when needed
    • Or redirecting to someone with better context
  • Monthly 1-Hour meeting with both Sustaining teams 
    • Every 1st Monday of the month
    • It would be basic knowledge sharing
    • One hour session from 6 – 7 pm. 
    • We can document that meeting for reference
  • Not tracking Blocked/Waiting on Reporter times
    • Context switching is very difficult for anyone in a team that a ticket.
    • We can assume, if some ticket is blocked for ~5 days, it means, its not high enough priority for them. 
    • Need to think more about this to make it less painful for the dev team.
  • Expectations from New Product Manager (Abstract)
    • Help us showcase and present our team in Cambridge.
      • Know our painful areas with a higher number of bugs (Maybe from the reports) and get in touch with the dev team
      • Plan and address hot areas. 
      • Help develop a healthy environment around Sustaining Team. 
    • Actual vs Expected Behavior 
    • Prioritize CAT-3s in the backlog to Prioritize state. 
    • Find areas our team can work, i.e. find and suggest area which our team take on and improve
    • Help develop a good healthy relationship with course teams and Ed services so that have visibility on our processes. 
      • They feel empowered to respond to tickets
  • Backlog Grooming
    • Prioritized tickets should be groomed. 
    • Who would be moving cat-3s to prioritized?
  • Use Jira ticket security level to "Internal Only". 
    • All Jira tickets cloned into EDUCATOR are internal only.
    • Verify ticket security during triage. 
    • If a ticket has sensitive information that should be Internal Only. 
  • Use Engineering Calendar for Annual Leaves. 
    • Social / Ethical Work
    • How to effectively share standup status?
      • When we are sharing the status in the channel, what measure we should take that everyone picks up quickly what are you doing?
        • General Rule:
          • Ticket Link / Number – Working on this
      • Ticket Number + Ticket Title
      • Jira Integration with Standup Room +3
    • Importance of Giving and receiving feedback
      • Listen Tool: Souce is Retro. 
        • Start Using it.
          • Immediate Feedback. 
          • Direct Feedback
          • Specific Feedback
        • Once In a month. (2 Retros) +3
      • Reminder inside Listen Tool
      • A reminder in Standup channel.
    • Daily Standup +2
      • English Language
      • Standup for the Mavericks. 
      • On Time
    • Social / Ethical Work
    • Actions:
      1. Priority to people who are on foot above all other transportation means. 
        • Rabia: -1
        • Asad: 1
        • Dawoud: 1
        • Awais: 1 + (-10):


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