Retrospective notes 2023.02.01

Chair	Timekeeper	Note Taker
??	??	David Keymer

Items from last retrospective:

Is point allocation for support appropriate?

• Best to apply points earlier in the sprint

Migrating to new GitHub projects system and separating issues

• Decided not to use GitHub Pages for the moment, but will review at later date

Coffee

• Too tricky to invite MANTID group to coffee (as they work remotely more often), but should be possible with accelerator controls group. FAA talking to Ivan about this anyway

Items from this retrospective:

Try to automate more of release workflow to avoid errors

• Discuss when ticket is next proposed (at following planning meeting)

Shorter sprints to avoid unplanned work?

• Try to be better about adding tickets that anyone can work on
• OK to add urgent tickets any time
• Group would rather not have more context switching with more frequent and shorter meetings
• Suggested splitting tickets down further, but some can't be and so still wouldn't be finished by sprint end
• Decided to keep as is, but bear in mind the option in future

CO2 monitor, is it still effective? Perhaps worrying too much about it?

• Agreed that indication useful for air quality if nothing else
• Dilemma between high CO2 levels and temperature with windows open
• SHE group and/or Estates to be contacted for current policy -> TL to do this.

Recent AwayDay very worthwhile and productive

• Good to have Hannah & Sonya there for alternative perspectives
• Suggestion to discuss long-term plans more often -> TL to elaborate
• Hopefully ideas from the day will be implemented, or at least prioritised with rest of work

Could be more ambitious with migration schedules

• Feeling that the group could get on with the migrations. KB agreed, but reported team too stretched to cope at moment
• Remaining migrations have most equipment catered for, tickets will be proposed as training for new starters. Starting soon with PEARL and HIFI.

General thought that group not currently working on 'large'(er) projects

• TS1 & TS2 coming up soon, so best not to take too much on at moment

Prediction that TS1 coming back will generate many problems for group, having not been run for ~18 months

• Lots of equipment has been switched off and/or disconnected during that time, so group is expecting calls even if the problem is not actually with the control software itself (but shows symptoms of course)