Retrospective
Something our team did well is... 
- 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)
- ...worked together to implement and test the new, improved API outage error handling in interoperation and on the front end. Hopefully this marks the end of interoperation causing the Studies page to crash
. (Miller, Eric (NIH/NCI) [C])
- Really fun and helpful to work with Ying, Ming (NIH/NCI) [C] and Udosen, Toyo (NIH/NCI) [C] to troubleshoot the issues with importing a file manifest to the CGC. (Kuffel, Gina (NIH/NCI) [C] )
- I was very excited that I was given approval to share the actual SOW with the team, I think it is important to feel connected with the mission and goals of the project (Kuffel, Gina (NIH/NCI) [C] )
Something that I think we need to improve for next time is... 
- List anything that we could have done better in this sprint (these comments can be anonymous)
Something I learned about during this sprint is...
I have gained updated permissions in the NCI Service Now "Native View" that allows me to see an assignee to all tickets. (Kuffel, Gina (NIH/NCI) [C] ).
- Had some comparing files using the bash utility "diff". (Kuffel, Gina (NIH/NCI) [C] )
Actions
- 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
- Create an external service to cache data from external APIs (Performance Caching)
- Mukherjee, Amit (NIH/NCI) [C] to create a DevOps task to implement performance caching and polling/reporting of outages to Slack or email.
