SolDevelo Onsite Meeting - Seattle Aug 2016

Attendees:

Paweł Gesek
Sebastian Brudziński
Krzysztof Kaczmarczyk (Deactivated)
Pengfei Cui (Deactivated) (thoughtworks)
Krystian
VR team

Objectives:

Shared understanding of the narrative and design for the 3.0 beta features
Review state of affairs (are the current process, communication, velocity) and identify strategies/approaches to address any issues/challenges
Size the backlog

Activities:

Overview and big picture (put context around 3.0)
Size remaining backlog (key part is overview of remaining pieces)
- Review and dive into details around user mapping (needs to be built and ready before)
Sprint planning and showcase together
Co-work (problem solve - discuss a design decision or something to work together)
Review relevant risks and make joint mitigation strategies
Get to know each other (fun time)
Potentially look at the broader roadmap
Specific topics to address throughout the week:
- Talk through documentation (readthedocs) together
- Discussion around 'taking new tickets' and picking up work. Building culture around asking questions and confirming understanding prior to starting on work.
- UI working session (workplan discussion, decide which parts to work on first and triage)

Schedule:

Day	Schedule	Agenda	Lead	Description
Monday	9:00 - 11:45	Overview and Big picture Review objectives and agenda Review the state of affairs	Jake Watson (Deactivated) Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated) Paweł Gesek	Jake: Go over the long-term features and roadmap Mary Jo: Discuss the upcoming week activities and topics Pawel: Review what has been completed (Where we are at) Jake: Go over the current dev process and discuss what is working and what is at risk or challenging
	12:00 - 1:00	Lunch at the office
	1:00 - 5:00	Design and Working Sessions: User Personas Roles Based Access Control Requisitions → Orders workflow		Review the user personas to understand who we are building the system for. Review roles based access control Walk through requisitions to export to order step-by-step and produce UML and sequence diagramming
Tuesday	9:00 - 10:00	AWS guest speaker	1Strategy	Strategies to utilizing AWS
	10:15 - 12:15	Continue the design and working sessions GS1 High-level and Product Model Presentation		Josh Zamorto lead us through Products Discuss the new products model
	Lunch	At Pike's Place Market	Team	Everyone free to go grab whatever they want.
	1:30 - 3:00	Co-work	Josh Zamor Chongsun Ahn (Unlicensed) Ben Leibert Sebastian Brudziński Paweł Gesek Krzysztof Kaczmarczyk (Deactivated) Pengfei Cui (Deactivated)	Code review and development practices Review current trends Review interfaces (in RAML and SDR). Are the resources right? Are we being consistent? Etc. Testing strategy finalized Outcome of the conversation: what are the steps, deliverables, etc.
	3:15 - 5:00	CI and Build Discussion	Pengfei Cui (Deactivated)
Wednesday	8:00 - 9:00	Showcase done in person
	9:00 - 11:45	Requisition state of affairs and Sprint Planning	Whole Team	Paweł Gesek and Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)start with a review state of affairs of requisitions (what is done and what is remaining)
	Lunch 12 - 1:30	SolDevelo Seattle Office Opening ceremony 1700 7th Avenue #2100, Seattle
	2:00 - 3:45	UI Discussion with Nick	Nick Reid (Deactivated)
	4:00 - 5:00	Sprint Planning	Jake Watson (Deactivated)	Finish up sprint planning.
Thursday	9:30 - 10:30	Sprint Planning (cont.)	Leads
	10:30 - 12:00	Sizing the backlog	Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated) & Kevin Cussen (Deactivated)	Two teams led by Kevin Cussen (Deactivated)and Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated) Sizing will happen at the epic level
	Lunch	In the office		We will at least have chips and drinks.
	1:30 - 5:00	Sizing the backlog	Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated) & Kevin Cussen (Deactivated)	Taking breaks as necessary
	Dinner	Team Dinner	Everyone who wants	Looking like Chinese food in the International District.
Friday	Morning	Finish sizing the backlog	Team
	Lunch	In the office
	1:00 - 2:30	Group work		Chris & Josh: Testing Strategy and architecture Chongsun & Sebastian: Code Quality and Reviewing Pawel, Jake and Mary Jo: Overall process, roles and responsibilities
	3:00	Recap on Progress, Roles and Responsibilities	Jake Watson (Deactivated)	And everyone can go enjoy the sun.

Prep work:

Josh Zamor Rich Magnuson (Deactivated) to come up with a working list of design/review topics to go over with SolDevelo
Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated) to pull together user mapping exercise
Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated) get the backlog into a state for easy review/sizing exercises
Rich Magnuson (Deactivated) to determine if Darius is available for a working session (probably not around)
Rich Magnuson (Deactivated) and Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated) to slot activities into the schedule
Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated) cherry pick the dev risks for the conversation
Schedule the UI working session with Nick
Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated) to speak with Pawel about doing the state of affairs/where we are at AND fun shirt day And ask about the showcase timing (can we shift it back)
Arrange lunches