Retrospectives: 20210505

Participants: Birte Thornquist, Nicholas Haggerty, Kalyan venkat, Nils Magne Lunde, Petter, Sven, Victor Nystad, Wenche Tollevsen

😃 Went well

• Work done so far is very good! ( Nils Magne Lunde )
• We have a News article page! ( Birte Thornquist, 2 Up Votes )
• Morning stand-up ( Nils Magne Lunde, 1 Up Vote )
• We are almost there with the news archive pages in nextjs app ( Kalyan venkat )
• Much improved editorial experience for the news article template. And some aspects added which we have lacked. ( Nicholas Haggerty )
• Participating in morning technical meeting improves communication and understanding. ( Petter )
• Feedback from Sanity on slack ( Sven )
• Progressing the archiving news aspects and realizing we may be able to bring over all news as static pages so we dont have to build published news pages again ( Nicholas Haggerty )
• Great help from team members in understanding new tech stack ( Kalyan venkat )
• The efficiency of the team when things are properly planned and discussed ( Nils Magne Lunde )
• The milestones (versions of pages) is a good structure ( Birte Thornquist )
• We communicate more and better ( Wenche Tollevsen, 1 Up Vote )

📈 To improve

• Communication ( Sven )
• Technical planning (overall picture) ( Victor Nystad, 2 Up Votes )
• Lack of properly defined test plan/strategy ( Nils Magne Lunde )
• Difficult to make plans/milestones. So many things to take into consideration. ( Nils Magne Lunde )
• 100s of things I could improve what is good enough ( Wenche Tollevsen )
• Review process (feedback coming in too late) ( Victor Nystad )
• Collaboration ( Nicholas Haggerty )
• Add more comments with updates on cards progress if they are In progress for days and weeks. ( Wenche Tollevsen )
• The slowness of the team when things are not clear or properly planned and discussed (which I guess is to be expected) ( Nils Magne Lunde )
• Too much noise with Sanity bugs recently ( Wenche Tollevsen )
• Funding issues! ( Nils Magne Lunde )
• Improve my self in the new technology stack ( Kalyan venkat )
• Still hard to see when people are working on Envis or not ( Wenche Tollevsen )
• Elements outside the projects making it difficult to plan and adding stress to the delivery ( Nicholas Haggerty )
• Wish I had more time to look into testing :/ ( Wenche Tollevsen )
• Would have preferred to have at least one more developer on the team who’s an employee ( Victor Nystad )
• Noise reduction (funding re-organisation etc.) ( Victor Nystad )
• A better process in the discovery phase between design/dev ( Birte Thornquist, 1 Up Vote )

☑ Action items

• Work on technical planning for the project [ Status: Open, Responsible: Not Assigned ] ( Nils Magne Lunde )
• Define test strategy [ Status: Open, Responsible: Petter ] ( Nils Magne Lunde )
• Regular demos [ Status: Open, Responsible: Not Assigned ] ( Nils Magne Lunde )
• Comment on cards [ Status: Open, Responsible: Not Assigned ] ( Nils Magne Lunde )
• Make sure to communicate to other team members when actively working on the project [ Status: Open, Responsible: Not Assigned ] ( Nils Magne Lunde )
• Make retrospectives longer. 1 hour is not enough! [ Status: Open, Responsible: Nils Magne Lunde ] ( Nils Magne Lunde )