Retrospective

[iteles]

What went well:

• Really enjoyed sprint planning session, having milestones and a plan - direction is key
• QA was very good (thanks @katbow), verbose style helped learn new things or even just different ways of doing things
  • Asking questions on why things were done rather than specifically saying ‘this is wrong’ was great as sometimes things were done in an unusual way for a reason
• Really enjoyed using pre-commit module for 100% test coverage. Doing tests as we go along rather than having to spend 2 days at the end doing them was much better
  • Also very enjoyable to use a module you wrote yourself
• Generally good team vibes
• Having acceptance criteria was very helpful in understanding what is the minimum we can do to fulfil that criteria and create the first iteration
• Generally we know we prefer more pairing so will look to continue to have a good balance of pairing (especially on more complex features) and individual work for future sprints

Things to be improved

• Would have been good to do the sprint planning before anything started (there were two days of research and planning before @iteles was in the country and available to do the planning)
• Having the bullet points in the readme turned into user stories with acceptance criteria earlier would have been helpful, this level of clarity made a difference and made things more tangeable
• More consistency of timing of standup (@iteles was travelling for two of the days so this had to be move) - allows you to architect your day (and if something you've planned for doesn't happen, it leaves you feeling unproductive)
• More time for a build overall, felt a bit rushed - could have been partially resolved by more accurate time estimates and a buffer for bugs, which would have led to a smaller sprint scope
• Clarity on whether times estimates are paired or individual and what happens if we do something individually that has a paired estimate

[iteles]

@finnhodgkin @ZooeyMiller Good morning friends! Could you please have a quick read of the above and ensure I've captured our retrospective from yesterday accurately?

Thank you!

[finnhodgkin]

Looks like everything we covered 👍

Definitely worth repeating how nice it was working with you all @iteles, @katbow and @ZooeyMiller ❤️.

[ZooeyMiller]

Looks good to me! Sorry I've taken so long to get to this, but agreed with @finnhodgkin, was great to work with you all.