Timepressures(imagined orotherwise)"It's afeature,not a bug"Typecheckingwould'vecaught thisA thirdpartyservicewas faultyPackageupdate brokethings inprodMicroservicecommunicationissuesThe relevanttest wascommentedoutUnmergedPR to fixthisThedocumentationwas out ofdateTherewereno logs"It'sdocumentedinConfluence"Thedeveloperresponsiblewent onholidayWe werenotified ofthis issue bya customerLow codecoverageblamedSeeddata islacking"That'son thebacklog"A QAwould'vecaughtthisThe logsdid notshow anerror[new tech]would fixthisFeaturebranchdeploysAWSservices aredifferentbetweenenvironmentsThe stagingenvironmentis sharedDeploysareslowRequirementschangedTimepressures(imagined orotherwise)"It's afeature,not a bug"Typecheckingwould'vecaught thisA thirdpartyservicewas faultyPackageupdate brokethings inprodMicroservicecommunicationissuesThe relevanttest wascommentedoutUnmergedPR to fixthisThedocumentationwas out ofdateTherewereno logs"It'sdocumentedinConfluence"Thedeveloperresponsiblewent onholidayWe werenotified ofthis issue bya customerLow codecoverageblamedSeeddata islacking"That'son thebacklog"A QAwould'vecaughtthisThe logsdid notshow anerror[new tech]would fixthisFeaturebranchdeploysAWSservices aredifferentbetweenenvironmentsThe stagingenvironmentis sharedDeploysareslowRequirementschanged

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 The documentation was out of date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