2018-12-20

General

  • Should we add the impact of our tickets to help us prioritise them?

    • Decided to try initial sort by urgent and important quadrants.

Mad

  • Review column has been very full

    • Remember to put one in, take one out

    • Has been hard because some people have been stuck on long tickets

  • Muon separator became a black hole of time

    • Can we highlight time spent on this? [Kevin given action]

    • Deadline set was not realistic, in that they still haven’t plugged in the kicker. This is something to learn for future projects

  • Hard to track progress through projects.

    • We should investigate story mapping to illustrate the stories we are working on and their progress

  • Hard when you go down to an instrument to decide whether a device is connected properly. Talked about cable mapping tools and getting electronics to fill in forms

    • Decided to start recording it whenever we go down to an instrument on IOC specific pages.

SAD

  • Tickets which scope creep are bad, it is hard to recognise when items are going to creep

    • Be mindful of estimates, if you are meeting then bring it up immediately

    • Stop scope creep for IOC by adding an analysis step (Keithley 2001 was example)

      • [John to add to process between sprint prep and planning if that is ok this feels like when we should do this]

Glad

  • Friday and Tech debt days were good, it was good to see them in the sprint again

  • New instrument migrations were good. Process is now a fine art

  • Instrument demos were useful with good feedback

  • Live view was “ridiculously useful”

  • ENGINX thought their requests had been well managed

    • All instrument scientists were happy seeing improvements in IBEX