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title: Vortex Retro 2019-07-31

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# Vortex Retro 2019-07-31

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## What is Going Well?

- Happy with the work that got done [kc]
- Matti's contributions have been big [nc] and I've just really enjoyed working with him [ad]
- Team velocity seems to be on a good trend [lm][em]

## What Could Be Improved?

- Talking through sprint stories at standup, things seem to be falling through the cracks. [kc][nc]
- The time between dev complete and QA testing [nc]
- Stories without descriptions or any AC [kc]
- Developer status at the end of the day on sprint closure days [lm]
- Working through bug backlog.  We will start metrics for bugs more than 6 weeks old[lm]
- Reduce snow-plowing of stories and bugs [lm]

## What Do We Need to Discuss?

- PR prefix(es) still needed? [nc]
- New sprint, all stories should get a verification task [nc][lm]

## Actions

- **Previous** - Add subtask in stories with “Needs DB reset” [dev team]
- **Previous** - Add Green build statuses to PRs [lm]
- **Previous** - Upgrade Github to current release [lm]
- Add link to build for verification tasks [lm, em]
- Tweak/Add any steps to reproduce or test as developers finish stories. [dev team]
- Developers to update Louie on last day of sprint. [dev team]
- Add bugs to current sprint when we have extra time. [all]
- Auto linking between Jira and Github, possibly replacing tags in title [lm]
- Add verification tasks for all stories at beginning of sprint [lm, em]
- Action Item review meeting mid-sprint. [all]

[previous]: https://hackmd.io/@n8io/retro-2019-07-17
[next]: https://hackmd.io/@n8io/retro-2019-08-14
