Jarvis Retro Notes Jan 5th 2018

Jarvis Retro Notes Jan 5th 2018.txt

What Went Well This Week?
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- Lots of points!
- Why?
  - Star performance from Garett
  - Had some carryover stories that finally shipped
  - Many stories were in areas where the team was already comfortable & confident
  - Groomed stories frequently
- Benefitted greatly from Tim's guidance with regards to uTu + project flow
- Working with Markie and Jason
- Garett enjoyed working w/ front-end end
- David enjoyed working w/ data analysis
- Cross-team collab (John helped w/ Connect)
- Database import/export pairing w/ John+Garett
- Ninjas great as always 
- 5 minute speedup on docs+lint stage thanks to --parallel flag! 🎉

What Didn't Go Well This Week?
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- uTu + JARVIS went in the wrong direction with regards to Project Scores due to our failure to grok data, specifically the significance of various project states. Why?
  - There is no direct mapping between "Tim's famous flowchart" and actual code, data, etc
- Communication breakdown!
  - Tim wishes he had been more involved in uTu process
  - The whole time, we'd been wishing for more Tim
  - Why the disconnect?
  - We should not hesitate to kick business-process questions to BenK, Kraig, and Tim
- Yarn bugs! 
  - Yarn is still searching for that stable phase in its life where it's a productive, stale tool

Kaizen
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"Don't be shy about asking Nitro process questions"


Kaizen Followup
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If you'd like to do professional development time, come to Ben with a concrete proposal. 

"Hey Ben, there's this Udemy class on Foo. It's 4 hours long and I get a certificate at the end. Can I do that Thursday afternoon?"

"Hey Ben, FooConf is coming up. Can I go?"   <-- Protip: super cool if you're willing to present, free pass + branding boost


David
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Role on the team: 3 (disappointed by understanding gap re: project states + uTu)
Department/Company: 4.5 (wished for more domain understanding present during meetings w/ uTu)
Vacation: 5
Last Jedi: 3

Garett
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Role on the team: 4.5 (see David's answer)
Department/Company: 4.5 
Vacation: 3.5 (Kelly wasn't feeling well. The antibiotics are helping!)
Last Jedi: (Incomplete)

John
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Role on the team: 4
Department: 3.5 (unsure how to bridge the "Nitro product knowledge gap", would like to make progress on department culture re: professional development time, work hours, etc)
Last Jedi: 4.5
Vacation: 5 (boring in a good way)