Retrospective (and more) action items

Retro Action Items - 08/10/2021

1. Research Spreadsheets around MDBT
2. Setup Dovetail for capturing general user feedback (Akua)
3. Explore how to use Wiki to track releases (Dev Team)
4. Review Vulnerabilities Wiki Page (https://github.com/CMSgov/eAPD/wiki/Development-vulnerabilities)
5. Find time to discuss how Validation designs fit into future development (Team)

Retro Action Items - 07/26/2021

1. Document External Dependencies (Bill)
2. Evaluate/Remove legacy/old unused code (Tif)
3. Find a new time for retro (Jerome/Tif)

Retro Action Items - 07/12/2021

1. Team communication exercise to interns (Tif)
2. Jerome to press button for releasing version 3.0 to production

Retro Action Items - 06/28/2021

1. Keep/start pre-grooming tickets in dev and design sync. Leads will come together with Jerome for refinement ceremonies.
2. Address warnings / errors in the react console

Retro Action Items - 06/14/2021

1. Try auto-merging dependabot warnings

Retro Action Items - 06/1/2021

1. 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
2. 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
3. Add a Ready for QA pipeline in zenhub completed
4. Add a Blocked pipeline in zenhub completed
5. Hear more on Risk Based Testing potentially during Cake Layer 2 kickoff

Retro Action Items - 05/03/2021

1. 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

1. 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

1. Put a regular leads meet back on the calendar in progress
2. Have a team working agreement workshop - completed 4/30
3. Continue onboarding new team members - including sharing out the roadmap as part of Cake Layer 2 Kickoff

Retro Action Items - 4/19/2021

1. Revisit the team working agreement exercise completed
2. Solidify QA workflow completed
3. Continue reviewing issue templates completed 3.5 Issue template for bugs/defects to include reproduce-ability completed
4. 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
5. If there's question on impact, scale, priority of an issue, confirm with Product ongoing
6. Can probably drop front-end label/tag completed
7. Consider changing the time of team design sync waiting for Jerome return
8. Find alternative ways to recruit for research sessions than the all states list serve completed

Action Items - 4/5/2021

1. 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

1. Extend parking lot time 15 minutes to allow for more discussion completed
2. Create issue for conducting Table Top Exercises for Go Live completed

Action Items - 2/8/2021

1. Be more mindful of scheduling in general, to help alleviate distractions
2. Follow up with QA on the vision of implementing QA best practice for our team

Action Items - 1/15/2021

1. 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
2. Write articles of our experience in the areas of Design, HCD, and Tech - In Progress
3. Identify Tech Debt assessment criteria similar to bugs

Action Items - 12/15/2020

1. Limit use of yellow - completed on 12/15/2020
2. Revisit working session/possibly conduct retro during working session - completed in January 2021 by moving Retro to Monday's working session
3. Possibly reschedule retro - completed in January 2021 by moving Retro to Monday's working session

Action Items - 11/03/2020

1. Leverage existing processes such as backlog refinement and sprint planning to assess opportunities to split issues to epics ongoing

Action Items - 08/25/2020

1. 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
2. Revisit Roadmap as a team - completed on 10/29/2020

Action Items - 08/11/2020

1. Add Testing as an upcoming working session topic- completed on 08/11/2020 via updating 08/17/2020 working session agenda
2. Revisit template use now that ZenHub has been migrated to CMS - on hold

Action Items - 07/14/2020

1. 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

1. Schedule 25 mins of working session time to discuss and experience a screen reader - completed on 07/13/2020
2. Spin up issue to initiate Release Strategy discussion- completed on 07/01/2020

Action Items - 06/16/2020

1. 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

1. Update future retro meetings' time - completed on 06/02/2020
2. 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

1. Create Effective Issues - completed on 11/03/2020- Jerome to review Dev and Design templates proposed by Team Leads
2. Communication exercise - completed on 06/01/2020 via Mural
3. 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

1. Resolve pr approval bottleneck - completed on 7/22/2020 - Team composite has been modified to support pr approval

Action Items - 04/21/2020

1. 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