Find time to discuss how Validation designs fit into future development (Team)
Retro Action Items - 07/26/2021
Document External Dependencies (Bill)
Evaluate/Remove legacy/old unused code (Tif)
Find a new time for retro (Jerome/Tif)
Retro Action Items - 07/12/2021
Team communication exercise to interns (Tif)
Jerome to press button for releasing version 3.0 to production
Retro Action Items - 06/28/2021
Keep/start pre-grooming tickets in dev and design sync. Leads will come together with Jerome for refinement ceremonies.
Address warnings / errors in the react console
Retro Action Items - 06/14/2021
Try auto-merging dependabot warnings
Retro Action Items - 06/1/2021
Parking lot time should be used for unblocking > solutioning, with some exceptions as needed and time allows or doesn't allow, or if there is a whole team topic that needs discussion. ongoing
If solutioning on a zenhub issue is needed, it should be done in a separate meeting with the folks who need to work together on an issue. That can be held in parking lot time if no other parking lot topics need to be discussed. It is not expected that the whole team remain on the call. ongoing
Add a Ready for QA pipeline in zenhub completed
Add a Blocked pipeline in zenhub completed
Hear more on Risk Based Testing potentially during Cake Layer 2 kickoff
Retro Action Items - 05/03/2021
Review open issues that have been long standing during backlog refinement/sprint planning. If appropriate, we may need to split up issues into more manageable chunks of work. It's also OK to keep as is -- if appropriate. - ongoing
Working Agreement Workshop Action Items - 4/30/2021
Product and design lead to write up agreement for team sharing. In PM's absence, temPM/Design Lead will write up and share out to the team for editing and comments. waiting for Jerome return to finalize
Leads Meeting Action Items - 4/21/2021
Put a regular leads meet back on the calendar in progress
Have a team working agreement workshop - completed 4/30
Continue onboarding new team members - including sharing out the roadmap as part of Cake Layer 2 Kickoff
Retro Action Items - 4/19/2021
Revisit the team working agreement exercise completed
Solidify QA workflow completed
Continue reviewing issue templates completed
3.5 Issue template for bugs/defects to include reproduce-ability completed
If only one person can reproduce an issue, it might not be a priority (check with product, use "hard to reproduce" tag if appropriate) ongoing
If there's question on impact, scale, priority of an issue, confirm with Product ongoing
Can probably drop front-end label/tag completed
Consider changing the time of team design sync waiting for Jerome return
Find alternative ways to recruit for research sessions than the all states list serve completed
Action Items - 4/5/2021
Make sure issues that get auto-added to multiple sprints are addressed in some way - potentially in sprint planning ongoing
Action Items - 2/22/2021
Extend parking lot time 15 minutes to allow for more discussion completed
Create issue for conducting Table Top Exercises for Go Live completed
Action Items - 2/8/2021
Be more mindful of scheduling in general, to help alleviate distractions
Follow up with QA on the vision of implementing QA best practice for our team
Action Items - 1/15/2021
Consider breaking out bug template from dev template -completed Team opted not to do so for now, but rather use existing Dev template as suggested
Write articles of our experience in the areas of Design, HCD, and Tech - In Progress
Identify Tech Debt assessment criteria similar to bugs
Action Items - 12/15/2020
Limit use of yellow - completed on 12/15/2020
Revisit working session/possibly conduct retro during working session - completed in January 2021 by moving Retro to Monday's working session
Possibly reschedule retro - completed in January 2021 by moving Retro to Monday's working session
Action Items - 11/03/2020
Leverage existing processes such as backlog refinement and sprint planning to assess opportunities to split issues to epics ongoing
Action Items - 08/25/2020
Follow up on improving weak emoji game in CMS Slack- completed on 08/28/2020 via adding all of emojis that the team has identified in 18F Slack to CMS Slack
Revisit Roadmap as a team - completed on 10/29/2020
Action Items - 08/11/2020
Add Testing as an upcoming working session topic- completed on 08/11/2020 via updating 08/17/2020 working session agenda
Revisit template use now that ZenHub has been migrated to CMS - on hold
Action Items - 07/14/2020
Update team on next retro format as well as proposed cadence of retro format variation - completed on 07/27/2020 via working session
Action Items - 06/30/2020
Schedule 25 mins of working session time to discuss and experience a screen reader - completed on 07/13/2020
Spin up issue to initiate Release Strategy discussion- completed on 07/01/2020
Action Items - 06/16/2020
Share path forward regarding conveying urgency or the lack thereof with entire team - completed on 06/16/2020 via Slack update
Action Items - 06/02/2020
Update future retro meetings' time - completed on 06/02/2020
Track action items and status in a manner in which the team is full aware - completed on 06/02/2020 via creation and ongoing maintenance of this page in the centralized team Wiki
Action Items - 05/19/2020
Create Effective Issues - completed on 11/03/2020- Jerome to review Dev and Design templates proposed by Team Leads
Communication exercise - completed on 06/01/2020 via Mural
Mindful about breaks - ongoing - breaks are being offered during meetings which are scheduled longer than 1 hour as well a breaks in between meetings when schedules allow
Action Items - 05/05/2020
Resolve pr approval bottleneck - completed on 7/22/2020 - Team composite has been modified to support pr approval
Action Items - 04/21/2020
Balance design strategy with upcoming update experience layer - completed on 7/23/2020 - Jenn and team has completed foundational cake layer 2 user research and updated/presented the modified roadmap based on that feedback on 7/23