Unique Sites List Retro

An Epic

Basecamp methodology

• 4 weeks shaping / 4 weeks building
• In reality 2.5 weeks shaping, 4 building
• Product & Eng agree on a scope

An Epic

Basecamp methodology

• 4 weeks shaping / 4 weeks building
• In reality 2.5 weeks shaping, 4 building
• Product & Eng agree on a scope

• Add information to New Sites profiles
• Access a profile for Potential Sites
• Unique Sites List
  • Display Evaluations
  • Country & Status Filters + Textual Search
  • One default sort

Our scope

What happened

What happened

Initial Planning

What happened

Split in Two parts

7

What happened

Break to help Complex Studies

What happened

Take delay into account

What happened

Some more delay

What happened

Raph, the gatekeeper

6

Why Delays

• Estimations wrong
  • ​Find All Sites (domain)
  • Persist evaluations
• One dev lost + on-call
• Features forgotten
  • ​Add Manually
  • Sites status icons
• ​Bugs & conflicts

More issues

• Ops & Intelligence onboarding
• Textual Search thought about too late in the process
• Epic bugs overloading on-call

Improvements

Improvements: Early Phase

• Have LT alignment before starting the work
• Design with Intelligence if you'll need them
• Update Ops about Epic changes.
• Identify Blocking points and have a plan
• Deadlines: have a clear plan of go no-go. Have a weekly review

Improvements: Dev Phase

• Give Inato people access from day one
• Map parts of the code touched by features to avoid conflicts
• Ticket on 🔥
• Weekly summary Hill Chart

Improvements: Release

• You can plan a two steps release
• Test more thoroughly Opportunities Evaluations

Cheers 👌