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Cycle 14 Retrospective
17 mars – 28 mars
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Actions
44Completed
5In progress
57Scope
77%
AI Cycle Summary
Strong cycle at 80% completion (12/15 issues). Pairing sessions significantly accelerated the auth unblock. However, 2 production deploy incidents reveal an urgent need for staging smoke tests. Scope changed once without team discussion.
Went well
4Pairing sessions helped unblock the auth issue in half a day
New CI pipeline is 3x faster
Clear specs from PM this sprint
Zero regressions on the billing refactor
Didn't go well
3Deploy broke production twice — no staging checks
Scope changed mid-sprint without team discussion
On-call rotation had no runbook for the new service
Ideas
3Add pre-deploy smoke tests on staging
Weekly 15-min scope review with PM
Set up automatic rollback on failed health checks
Kudos
2Sarah's specs were incredibly detailed this sprint
Tom stayed late to help debug the auth issue
Actions3
Ungrouped5
New CI pipeline is 3x faster
+1Zero regressions on the billing refactor
+2On-call rotation had no runbook for the new service
+1Sarah's specs were incredibly detailed this sprint
+4Tom stayed late to help debug the auth issue
+1Add pre-deploy smoke tests on staging
3 items · 8 votesDeploy broke production twice — no staging checks+4
Add pre-deploy smoke tests on staging+2
Set up automatic rollback on failed health checks+2
Create scope change request template
2 items · 1 votesScope changed mid-sprint without team discussion+1
Weekly 15-min scope review with PM
Schedule a weekly pairing session
2 items · 3 votesPairing sessions helped unblock the auth issue in half a day+3
Clear specs from PM this sprint
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Deploy broke prod twice
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Specs arrived too late
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Pairing sessions helped a lot
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