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Add learnings from Trenitalia invoices feature

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marcoow commented
  • ask more questions when coming into a story to get a better understanding of the story you're now helping with or reviewing a PR for
  • pair more, look for pairing opportunities early on: a second pair of eyes can be helpful to come up with a better strategy for how to implement a feature and pairing can also be more effective than splitting up a story and working on multiple aspects in parallel (in which case you run into situations where people work on the same stuff redundantly, depend on each other etc.)
  • plan everything thoroughly: make sure all info/api etc. we need to work on something is available when we start the work; make sure a story is well understood, implications are well understood, the size of a story is well understood etc.
  • the team needs to review pre-planned stories before sprint planning so that wrong estimates, missing todos etc. are identified early
  • use feature flags to be able to merge big stories incrementally without affecting production users; this allows splitting up things into smaller units that can be merged/released individually without even being fully functional
pangratz commented

LGTM

jayjayjpg commented

The sum up also sounds good to me, thank you for wrapping this up @marcoow

marcoow commented

I'm closing this as all of the above points are addressed in the playbook now.