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# Vortex Retro 2019-09-25

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## Prior Action Items

- **Ongoing** - Reach out to Zeal devs early and often. [dev team]
- **Longstanding** - Action Item review meeting mid-sprint. [all]
- **Longstanding** - Auto linking between Jira and Github, possibly replacing tags in title [lm]
- **Longstanding** - Add Green build statuses to PRs [lm]
- **Longstanding** - Upgrade Github to current release [lm]

## What is Going Well?

- Thoroughness of AC much improved [nc][rc][ms]
- Team Velocity [lm]
- So many done stories coming into Review meeting [kc]
- Having Carter in Planning/Review meetings [kc][mm][ms]

## What Could Be Improved?

- Brittle DX on Windows causing major slowdowns [nc]
- Dev complete stories sitting idle for several days [nc]
- Measuring velocity per-developer instead of per-team introduces the wrong kinds of incentives and is counter-productive [rc][nc][ms]
- Getting test protocols in verify tasks completed early [lm]
- Not overloading verification at end of sprint [mm]

## What Do We Need to Discuss?

- Do new TickerTape features automatically apply to both Reports and Excel export? [rc][ms]
- Workspaces in yarn and their effect on build [mm]
- Move verify tickets to following sprint to reduce buildup and pressure on verification? [mm]
- Tagging BEC team on code reviews [lm] (http://svusftcgit/Vortex/vortex-frontend/pull/247) [rc]
- Designs are there for reference no for exact implementation [kc]
- React router upgrade to hooks [mm]
- Onboarding doc and code style styleguide to prevent some of thethe issues we saw [mm]

## Action Items

- Add two swim lanes in Jira "Ready for Build" & "Ready for Test" [lm]
- Story to add summary analog data to Excel Export [lm]
- Onboarding Doc [mm][dh][lm]

[previous]: https://hackmd.io/@n8io/retro-2019-09-11
[next]: https://hackmd.io/@n8io/retro-2019-10-09
