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Something our team did well is... (smile) 

  • List anything that went well in this sprint including shout out to others that went out of their way to help (add your name after your comment or feel free to keep it annonymous)
  •  Working as a team to solve production release issues. Great work. (Udosen, Toyo (NIH/NCI) [C] )
  • Coordination on publishing new NPM packages (Rana, Ambar (NIH/NCI) [C] )
  • Our team faced many challenges this release cycle and I thought team members showed up for each other and sometimes worked outside of normal hours to make sure everything was resolved. Thank you also to our teammates from other teams that stepped in to help including Fleming, Michael (NIH/NCI) [C] and Donkor, Vincent (NIH/NCI) [C]. (Kuffel, Gina (NIH/NCI) [C] )
  • Despite the release issues, I think we've demonstrated that we can join forces and quickly/effectively troubleshoot. (Eric)
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Something that I think we need to improve for next time is... (sad)

  • List anything that we could have done better in this sprint (these comments will be anonymous)
  • Should have worked on publishing NPM package at the beginning or early stages of the bentofication. (Rana, Ambar (NIH/NCI) [C] )
  • We need more insight from DevOps once a user story is created, meaning we need guidance to understand if we need to file DevOps-related Jira tasks to support the user story. It would be good to know this ahead of time instead of when we are trying to promote a new microservice or feature.
  • Sometimes I feel like our team can do a better job of acknowledging and responding to messages on Slack and if that is not the preference of the team maybe we can have more impromptu meetings or huddles to be sure people aren't missing communications.
  • Backend team (i.e. me) should better communicate major backend changes to the rest of the team (I think some weren't aware of the move to an ICDC-specific Bento backend and this even contributed to a deployment issue). (Eric) <-- oops, not anonymous
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Something I learned about during this sprint is...(lightbulb)

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  •  Better catalog/documentation of system changes, ie. a DevOps log
  •  Always reschedule standup meetings
  •  Be sure to update test cases if and when requirements evolve
  •  DevOps leads should sign off on new microservice designs