2016 Sprint 5 Thread
Added by J. Simmons about 7 years ago
Contains stand ups, review, retrospective, etc for fifth sprint of 2016.
Runs 2016.09.22 - 2016.11.17
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RE: 2016 Sprint 5 Thread - Added by J. Simmons about 7 years ago
Pre-week 1 commitments
- J
- Will do - HW-26 (purchase boards) and the first blog post from BIZ-35 (syndocn)
- Bryan
- Will do - nothing (biz travel)
RE: 2016 Sprint 5 Thread - Added by J. Simmons about 7 years ago
Week 1 Stand Up (virtual)
- J
- Did - ordered sample RPi Zeros and CHIPS (RPi Zeros are already here), drafted first blog post from BIZ-35 (syndcon), developed a format for sprint review/planning blog posts
- Will do - work to get first blog post published, start drafting second blog post from BIZ-35 (sprint 4 review/sprint 5 planning)
- Blocked? - still waiting on video review and photos for first blog post; traveling to OHS Thur, so cannot do stand up on Thur night and will be at reduced capacity
- Bryan
- Did - nothing
- Will do - nothing
- Blocked? - biz travel
RE: 2016 Sprint 5 Thread - Added by J. Simmons about 7 years ago
Critical Sprint Status Meeting
- Sprint has failed to go anywhere near according to plan
- J, blocked due to unexpected work travel (~6 of the 8 weeks in the sprint)
- Bryan is becoming available according to plan
- But, most remaining work is really for J
- Conclusion - abort sprint and re-plan
- Leveraging completed work on BIZ-35
- There were three tasks here (J noted that this should have been broken into 3 separate PBIs)
- J recommends publishing first newsletter as a SyndCon newsletter and then do the planned style (sprint to sprint) in the rebooted sprint
- J will coordinate with social media contractor
- Rebooting the sprint
- J suggests
- holding review and retrospective (such as it will be) once his work travel is done
- planning next sprint after that
- setting up the sprint to sprint blog post and next newsletter release with the new plan
- Bryan concurred
- J suggests
RE: 2016 Sprint 5 Thread - Added by J. Simmons about 7 years ago
Sprint 5 Review
Claiming Done
- HW-26 - Purchase alternate controller boards to begin testing
Not Claiming Done
Everything else. :(
- BIZ-33 - Redo books in GNUCash as previous platform ate them
- HW-24 - Update documentation for Holoseat to match current revision, aka the wiki pages
- BIZ-34 - Update documentation so that it is current and all irrelevant documentation is removed
- SW-01 - Update system tray software to be fully commented internally so that others can work on the code easier
- HW-25 - Double check and confirm all documentation of firmware is correct
- HW-27 - Research industrial design contract to move sensor assembly from prototype to finished
- BIZ-35 - Write the post SyndCon and the Sprint 4 to 5 blog posts and get the first newsletter published
Other Notes
- See earlier post about how this sprint was completely screwed up by external factors.
Retrospective
What we did well?
- We did the right kind of planning.
- The first week +/- started off strong (first blog post done, parts ordered quickly, arranged Bryan's work on sprint to start later intentionally)
What didn't go well?
- Both J and Bryan had external factors that prevented them from really working on the sprint much past week 1
- We took too long to acknowledge the sprint was hosed (way too long)
- Once again, we got to a point where stand ups stopped happening, and in turn the sprint came to a stand still
- BIZ-35 was a poorly defined PBI; it was really 3 PBIs, and we would have gotten more credit for completing more of the sub-items
What can we do better next time?
- We must preserve the time for stand ups
- Be willing to bail on failed sprints as soon as we recognize issues
- Watch for compound PBIs!!!
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