Retrospective FY26Q3 Contributor Success & Programs

Let's do a retrospective, async & the agile way

Step 1

Think of what moves us forward (wind ⛵), what holds us back (anchor ⚓), Goals we work towards (Tropical Island 🌴) or risks we face (icebergs we could collide into 💥). Each of these are types of feedback you could convey to the team.

Define also the level of depth this topic is situated at. Is this at:

• Team level (read: Contributor Success & Programs)
• Between teams (read: Strategy)
• At the organization level (read: outside Strategy)

Step 2

Write them down below. Each item is 1 comment. Prefix them with the level this anchor is situated on. Don't forget, this is both positive & negative. If there are items we're doing well and we should do more of, it's valuable to mention it.

Template

## Title of your anchor

- Level: Team
- Type: Holds us back

Write your description of the situation here

Example

## Hackathon points calculation

- Level: Team
- Type: Holds us back

Currently the points calculation is a very manual process, causing for a lot of confusion and unclarity. 
It also caused me a lot of stress, while not being very effective for our team or company goals.

Step 3

Vote with emoji's on the anchor topics (anything will do). Additionally you can discuss them already here in the issue. We'll discuss synchronously the top 3 in our next team meeting.

cc @gitlab-org/developer-relations/contributor-success / @esalvadorp / @johncoghlan / @janasenap

Visual assistance ;-)

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