Android Retrospective by app.postbank

Retro December 2016

app_postbank — 2017-02-01 09:53:02 UTC

Today

app_postbank — 2017-02-01 09:53:17 UTC

Start

app_postbank — 2017-02-01 09:53:56 UTC

Keep Doing

app_postbank — 2017-02-01 09:54:03 UTC

Stop

app_postbank — 2017-02-01 09:54:09 UTC

Verena

2017-02-01 10:06:44 UTC

- Team Reduction
- Regression Wave (big topics)
- Non sorted/priotized board with parallel projects
- cannot add too much since I only joined partially/later

app_postbank — 2017-02-01 10:06:49 UTC

prod mpay enrolment

Mateusz

2017-02-01 10:06:49 UTC

Farhan

2017-02-01 10:07:14 UTC

- the big merge
- "Hamster" sprints :)
- team reduction...
- a bit foggy situation regarding process
- too many epic branches --> too many bugs
- team splits and then knowledge transfer is very difficult
- iOS stories were not always adapted correctly for android e.g. Release Tour

app_postbank — 2017-02-01 10:07:16 UTC

team reduction

app_postbank — 2017-02-01 10:07:24 UTC

Team reduction

huge Mpay problems

too many projects in parallel

The neverending sprint

Sarah

2017-02-01 10:07:28 UTC

-team reduction
-no further realization redesign
-too many prepared designs

2017-02-01 10:07:39 UTC

- Team reduction

app_postbank — 2017-02-01 10:07:43 UTC

open scope

Rostyslav

2017-02-01 10:13:06 UTC

- switching between "teams" (syncbox <--> regression)

app_postbank — 2017-02-01 10:18:26 UTC

"process" discussions -> release trains (defined time, variable scope)

less topics on preparation (concept & design)

Farhan

2017-02-01 10:22:04 UTC

+ Team communication
+ Being patient

2017-02-01 10:22:35 UTC

- Documentation quality drop, at least based on Multibanking track, already done by iOS team.

2017-02-01 10:22:49 UTC

- Given workload in time (number of tracks), rushed QA activities with lesser quality of test documentation, especially in context of regression scopes (which for mPay are basically not existing).

2017-02-01 10:23:07 UTC

- Issues based on lacking discipline in Branching model.

2017-02-01 10:23:24 UTC

- Communication issues due to not single language used describing app specific components and mechanisms.

2017-02-01 10:24:25 UTC

Android UI tests are behind iOS by huge margin. We should work again on it.

2017-02-01 10:24:41 UTC

Too many unfinished things (Multibanking, Syncbox, mPay)

2017-02-01 10:24:52 UTC

Great team communication in Android team

2017-02-01 10:25:36 UTC

Define project specific DSL

Benedikt

2017-02-01 10:26:22 UTC

Farhan

2017-02-01 10:27:48 UTC

= single feature release focus
= one epic per sprint and whole technical team on one epic

app_postbank — 2017-02-01 10:40:21 UTC

working on smaller pieces

Verena

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Neverending Sprint

app_postbank — 2017-02-01 10:49:06 UTC

- Commit only on things that can be closed in the sprint (incl. testing, design review, bug fixing)
- Say "NO!"
- End of the Week -> Discuss about "Spare time at the end of the sprint"

Documentation quality drop

app_postbank — 2017-02-01 10:54:37 UTC

- keep documentation clear for only Android (screens, only Android related spec)
- link to old stuff, make clear when transit to iOS documentation

Define project specific DSL

app_postbank — 2017-02-01 10:54:43 UTC

- document in confluence
- use it in all documents / artifacts
- schedule separate meeting on this

Team splits and knowledge transfer

app_postbank — 2017-02-01 10:54:56 UTC

- requires time
- all team members should now each others code and know on what the others are working (in detail, spend more time on this)

Too many parallel projects

app_postbank — 2017-02-01 10:55:16 UTC

- focus on one project (e.g. 1 epic per sprint)
- Discuss with Postbank that it is more efficient to focus on 1 topic at a time