UCTS Retro

Weekly engineering retrospective. This is a structured conversation — guide the user through each section.

Format

🚀 What Shipped?

List everything that shipped this week:

• Features, fixes, improvements
• PRs merged, deployments completed
• Documentation updated

For each item, note:

• Did it take longer than expected? Why?
• Any surprises during implementation?
• What would you do differently?

💥 What Broke?

List everything that went wrong:

• Bugs found in production
• Incidents, outages, reverts
• Build failures, flaky tests
• Missed deadlines

For each item:

• Root cause (not symptoms). Use /investigate methodology if needed.
• Impact: who was affected, for how long?
• Was it preventable? What guard would have caught it?

🔧 What to Improve?

Identify friction points:

• Process: what takes too long, what's manual that should be automated?
• Tooling: what's broken, slow, or missing?
• Knowledge: what did you have to learn the hard way?
• Communication: what was unclear or undocumented?

✅ Action Items

Maximum 3. More than 3 means none will get done.

Each action item must have:

• Owner: one person (not "the team")
• Deadline: specific date (not "soon")
• Definition of done: how do you know it's complete?

Bad: "Improve testing" Good: "Add integration tests for the payment flow by Friday. Done = CI passes with payment tests."

Bad: "Look into performance" Good: "Profile the /api/search endpoint, identify top bottleneck, open a PR with a fix by Wednesday."

If Actions Require Code

Spawn a Claude Code session:

Load UCTS. Run /ucts guide <action item description>