Neos Project Retro - Sprint Hamburg - November 2016

We had two retros during the code sprint

  1. First day: retro where the issues we wanted to tackle where already decided upfront by the synchronizers.

  2. Second day: open retro where everybody was able to put in topics.

First day 22th of November 2016

List of participants

  • Dmitri Pisarev
  • Florian Heinze (remote)
  • Gina Steiner
  • Tyll Weiß
  • Karsten Dambekalns
  • Bernhard Schmitt
  • Robert Lemke
  • Wilhelm Behncke
  • Markus Goldbeck
  • Sebastian Helzle
  • Tobias Gruber
  • Berit Hlubek
  • Christian Müller
  • Christopher Hlubek
  • Gerhard Boden
  • Martin Ficzel
  • Sebastian Kurfuerst

Attending the sprint but not the retro:

  • Sreyleak Helzle
  • Max Strübing
  • Bastian Heist

Summary of the retro

After a short welcome we introduced the agenda:

Agenda

Everybody prepared four questions and presentend them in the group. The answers to the questions can be found here: https://discuss.neos.io/t/4-questions-hamburg-sprint-retro/1628

4 Questions

Most of the discussion where held in a fishbowl, this is how this works:

Fishbowl How-To

First fishbowl:

Fishbowl - What should the Neos project provide to you?

Second fishbowl:

Fishbowl - What should we spend time on as a team/project?

Then Tobias and Gina introduced a suggestion how to get binding team decisions.
We decided unisonous that this guideline applies from now on.
Have a look here: Guideline: How to get binding team decisions

How to vote

In the agenda we actually planned five fishbowl but on the fly we decided to combine the fishbowl “Spend personal free time vs. work you don’t like to do” and “Kitchen duties” to one.

Third fishbowl:

Fishbowl - Spend personal free time vs. work you don’t like to do & Kitchen duties

Fishbowl - Kitchen duties (Solutions)

During the retro we decided to switch the order of the last two issues in the agenda. So we first brainstormed about the True North and afterwards did the last fishbowl.

Brainstorming on the True North

Fourth fishbowl:

Fishbowl Quality assurance

Feedback

Second day 23th of November 2016

This retro took only one hours since there the issues could be tackled very fast and efficiently.

List of participants

  • Dmitri Pisarev
  • Gina Steiner
  • Tyll Weiß
  • Karsten Dambekalns
  • Bernhard Schmitt
  • Robert Lemke
  • Wilhelm Behncke
  • Markus Goldbeck
  • Sebastian Helzle
  • Tobias Gruber
  • Christian Müller
  • Gerhard Boden
  • Martin Ficzel
  • Sebastian Kurfuerst
  • Johannes Steu

Attending the sprint but not the retro:

  • Sreyleak Helzle
  • Max Strübing
  • Bastian Heist

Summary of the retro

After a short welcome and a summary of yesterday, we introduced the agenda:

Agenda

With the “Temperature” we found out about the urge to talk about more topics:

Temperature

We decided to invest a short amount of time to talk about four topics. The slot on each topic was timeboxed:

Topics

We thank everybody who attended for the attendance, the collaboration and the amazing outcome!

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Thanks for sharing that info! Interesting to know what you guys talked about :slight_smile: