Timepressures(imagined orotherwise)A QAwould'vecaughtthisLow codecoverageblamedWe werenotified ofthis issue bya customerMicroservicecommunicationissuesThedocumentationwas out ofdateSeeddata islackingTypecheckingwould'vecaught this"It'sdocumentedinConfluence"FeaturebranchdeploysThedeveloperresponsiblewent onholidayRequirementschangedThe logsdid notshow anerror"It's afeature,not a bug"Therewereno logsDeploysareslow[new tech]would fixthisThe relevanttest wascommentedoutAWSservices aredifferentbetweenenvironments"That'son thebacklog"Packageupdate brokethings inprodA thirdpartyservicewas faultyUnmergedPR to fixthisThe stagingenvironmentis sharedTimepressures(imagined orotherwise)A QAwould'vecaughtthisLow codecoverageblamedWe werenotified ofthis issue bya customerMicroservicecommunicationissuesThedocumentationwas out ofdateSeeddata islackingTypecheckingwould'vecaught this"It'sdocumentedinConfluence"FeaturebranchdeploysThedeveloperresponsiblewent onholidayRequirementschangedThe logsdid notshow anerror"It's afeature,not a bug"Therewereno logsDeploysareslow[new tech]would fixthisThe relevanttest wascommentedoutAWSservices aredifferentbetweenenvironments"That'son thebacklog"Packageupdate brokethings inprodA thirdpartyservicewas faultyUnmergedPR to fixthisThe stagingenvironmentis shared

Engineering Retro - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.


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  1. Time pressures (imagined or otherwise)
  2. A QA would've caught this
  3. Low code coverage blamed
  4. We were notified of this issue by a customer
  5. Microservice communication issues
  6. The documentation was out of date
  7. Seed data is lacking
  8. Type checking would've caught this
  9. "It's documented in Confluence"
  10. Feature branch deploys
  11. The developer responsible went on holiday
  12. Requirements changed
  13. The logs did not show an error
  14. "It's a feature, not a bug"
  15. There were no logs
  16. Deploys are slow
  17. [new tech] would fix this
  18. The relevant test was commented out
  19. AWS services are different between environments
  20. "That's on the backlog"
  21. Package update broke things in prod
  22. A third party service was faulty
  23. Unmerged PR to fix this
  24. The staging environment is shared