16.5 Plan retrospective
This is an asynchronous retrospective for 16.5. It's private to the Plan group, plus anyone else that worked with the group during 16.5. This retrospective will be following the process described at https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/management/group-retrospectives/
Please feel free to honestly describe your thoughts and feelings about working on that release below.
Please look at back at your experiences working on this release, ask yourself
For each point you want to raise, please create a new discussion with the relevant emoji, so that others can weigh in with their perspectives, and so that we can easily discuss any follow-up action items in-line.
(If there is something you are not comfortable sharing, message your manager directly. But note that 'Emotions are not only allowed in retrospectives, they should be encouraged', so we'd love to hear from you here if possible.)
Issues we shipped
Deliverables (closed issues with ~Deliverable label for 16.5 milestone):
group::product planning
- Add ability to define work item links restrictions
- Set parent quick action
- Add child work item with quick actions
- Linked Items BE: Decrease number of SQL queries executed by workItemAddLinkedItems mutation
- Linked Items BE: Add documentation
- Use legacy issues URL for work items with type Issue
- Work Item Quick Action: Add emoji reactions
group::optimize
- Add "projects with no DORA data" count to performanceScoreCount GraphQL collection
- VSA multi-select project dropdown not allowing multi-select
- Add additional filters to issuesCompletedCount
- VSD drilldown links - Inherit the labels from the panel filter
- Migrate ee/app/assets/javascripts/analytics/productivity_analytics/components/metric_chart.vue to GlDisclosureDropdown or GlCollapsibleListbox
- Migrate ee/app/assets/javascripts/analytics/productivity_analytics/components/app.vue to GlDisclosureDropdown or GlCollapsibleListbox
- VSA: Value stream errors are not shown
- [Feature flag] Rollout of
use_offset_pagination_for_canceling_redundant_pipelines
- VSD - "DORA Performers score" panel - Adding projects topics filters.
- VSA: [UX] Usability improvements - adding predefined date range
- VSA settings: [BE] Add support for storing selected projects per value stream
group::knowledge
- Submitting a comment while in preview mode retains the "Continue editing" button
- [Feature flag] Enable
content_editor_on_issues
All closed issues (within 16.5 milestone)
Issues that slipped
Deliverables (slipped issues with ~Deliverable label for 16.5 milestone):
group::product planning
group::knowledge
Say/Do Ratios
Say/Do Ratio measures how engineering teams perform against their commitments. It compares the number of items committed to during a milestone to the number actually delivered.
It is available in this dashboard. Ensure you filter it by stage: Plan.
Open follow-up issues from previous retros
- Put Retrospective Reminders in Slack
- Improve representation of urgent customer bugs
- Implement visual testing for the Roadmap
- Mandate feature test coverage of user-facing work item changes
- Total deliverables closed: 20
- Total issues closed: 50
- Total MRs merged: 163
Value Stream Analytics
Visualize the key metrics for the release by reviewing the Value Stream Analytics (VSA).
- VSA for this release
- It would be great to get your ~dogfooding feedback on VSA. Give it a try and leave your comments in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/plan/-/issues/759.
- Known issues & feature gaps