April 2022 Sprint Retrospective

Training Team works in monthly sprints. At the end of each sprint, we ask ourselves the following questions. Below is a compilation of the responses from the team following the retrospective discussions held in the #training SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel:

What went well?

  • Updates to GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ to make it easier to navigate
  • Prioritising and labelling of issues on GitHub to make it easier to identify what items are of high priority or quick fixes for new contributors
  • GitHub activity now shows
  • Taking feedback on GitHub issues during weekly meetings
  • Lots of great interaction in Social Learning Spaces (SLS)
  • Lost of collaboration around the training community GitHub is now easier to navigate, links filtered by priorities, version
  • Collaboration with #meta on tracking Helpscout responses as part of contributing and triaging site functionality issues.

What could we improve?

  • Create a few training pieces on how lesson plans and workshops evolve into courses
  • Reaching out to new contributors by setting up the Faculty Program so we can involve more people
  • Draft training needs analysis
  • The team still faces challenges in creating content, it is hoped that this will be mitigated with the introduction of the Faculty Program.

What will we do differently?

  • Work in the open as often as we can and set better deadlines
  • Draft objective statement and assist new creators in getting started
  • Draft a proposal or workflow for new releases – we can look at setting up Calls for Content Creation similar to Calls for Testing.

#retro