Wiki > Project overview > Notes from Retrospectives > Sprint Ending 2018-12-20

General

• Should we add the impact of our tickets to help us prioritise them?
  • Decided to try initial sort by urgent and important quadrants.

Mad

• Review column has been very full
  • Remember to put one in, take one out
  • Has been hard because some people have been stuck on long tickets
• Muon separator became a black hole of time
  • Can we highlight time spent on this? [Kevin given action]
  • Deadline set was not realistic, in that they still haven't plugged in the kicker. This is something to learn for future projects
• Hard to track progress through projects.
  • We should investigate story mapping to illustrate the stories we are working on and their progress
• Hard when you go down to an instrument to decide whether a device is connected properly. Talked about cable mapping tools and getting electronics to fill in forms
  • Decided to start recording it whenever we go down to an instrument on IOC specific pages.

SAD

• Tickets which scope creep are bad, it is hard to recognise when items are going to creep
  • Be mindful of estimates, if you are meeting then bring it up immediately
  • Stop scope creep for IOC by adding an analysis step (Keithley 2001 was example)
    • [John to add to process between sprint prep and planning if that is ok this feels like when we should do this]

Glad

• Friday and Tech debt days were good, it was good to see them in the sprint again
• New instrument migrations were good. Process is now a fine art
• Instrument demos were useful with good feedback
• Live view was "ridiculously useful"
• ENGINX thought their requests had been well managed
  • All instrument scientists were happy seeing improvements in IBEX