Sprint 0 June 14, 2017

On June 14th, the TalentMAP team met to perform a retrospective of the sprint. Each team was dot-voted on using the process of every participant having 6 votes, where the first vote is 3 dots, second vote is 2 dots, and third vote is 1 dot. The themes are ordered based on the number of votes they

I liked...

• Team integration and communication (15)
• Becoming comfortable with agile process (15)
• Team accomplishments (14)
• Project foundation based on user research (11)
• Deeper understanding of users
• Common understanding on DevOps

I wish...

• Clear and more frequent team communication (14)
• Greater visibility into State technologies and process (13)
• More defined project plan/product grooming (10)
• Next sprint is successful and productive (10)
• Continued access to users (5)
• Collaboration tools were accessible by State (3)
• Provide exposer to broader team to users
• Avoid backlog proliferation
• Consolidate backend set up

What if...

• In depth workshops for design and future product development (15)
• Involve broader team in user research activities (12)
• Balance research and design to be more productive (7)
• Commit to containers (9)
• Clear agenda setting, expectations, and outcomes from State (9)
• Provide product owner with laptop with less security restrictions (3)
• Use just CircleCI for DevOps operations (1)
• Establish Code Freeze