Close out Sprint 10: retrospective, collapse state.md, ready for Sprint 11

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

backlog/sprints/sprint-10-retrospective.md

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+# Sprint Retrospective
+
+**Sprint:** 10
+**Date:** 2026-10-27
+**Facilitated by:** `scrum-master`, per `process/05_sprint_retrospective.md`
+**Inputs used:** `backlog/sprints/sprint-10.md`, `backlog/backlog.md` (Sprint 10 refinement, planning, and Review outcome notes), `backlog/epics/02_template_designer_gui_foundation.md`, `backlog/epics/04_live_preview_and_record_navigation.md`, `backlog/epics/06_layout_efficiency_and_operator_tooling.md`, `logs/technical_debt_log.md`, `logs/impediment_log.md`, `logs/process_improvement_log.md`, `backlog/sprints/sprint-9-retrospective.md` (for follow-through check). This session had direct shell/build access throughout and ran `dotnet test` itself at every checkpoint.
+
+## Signals
+
+**Objective:**
+- 3/3 committed stories Done (13/13 points), sprint goal assessed "met in full" at Sprint Review (`backlog/backlog.md`, Sprint 10 Review outcome).
+- Test suite grew from 364/364 (Desktop.Tests, Sprint 9 close) to 388/388 across the sprint's three batches (+12 wrap/clip indicator tests, +12 multi-select tests, +12 alignment/distribution tests); CLI.Tests unaffected throughout at 124/124.
+- Two ad-hoc, non-committed items handled mid-sprint on live human product-owner feedback: (1) mid-Batch-1, adding Delete/Backspace support and correcting the resize handle to width-only; (2) between Batch 1 and Batch 2, a canvas click-smoothness regression, root-caused and fixed with disclosed before/after timing evidence (~50ms to 0.3ms per click).
+- Zero new impediments; the two pre-existing open ones (asset path strategy, UNC timeout/retry) remain non-blocking and untouched.
+- Two new technical debt items logged this sprint (both Low/Open/non-blocking): the pre-existing Address-Control-interaction-code testability gap grew further (now three features built on the untested WinForms-only side: rotation, multi-select, align/distribute); a pre-existing, unrelated GDI+ selection-highlight measurement quirk was found and disclosed rather than fixed in-scope.
+- Live verification spanned reflection-driven built-form harnesses with real screenshots for every GUI-touching item this sprint, including a **fresh** (not reused) full-form screenshot for Batch 3 per its own explicit AC.
+
+**Subjective:**
+- The human product owner actively used the live built app between batches and surfaced two real issues immediately, both handled the same session rather than being logged for a later sprint — a fast, effective feedback loop, though it means the sprint's actual path diverged twice from its planned batch sequence.
+- The additive-layer design for multi-select (decided at story-writing time: extend `CanvasElementEditor`/`TemplateCanvasControl`'s selection state rather than replace it) paid off exactly as intended — every pre-existing single-select code path needed zero changes, confirmed by the full test suite and live smoke passing unmodified.
+- Architecture reuse compounded well across the sprint: Batch 2's rotation-aware world-space AABB helper (built for rubber-band selection) was exposed and reused directly for Batch 3's alignment/distribution bounding boxes, rather than a second implementation.
+- When the click-smoothness regression was reported, the team went straight to direct temporary instrumentation (`Stopwatch` timers inserted into the suspect method, removed after) rather than reasoning from assumption — this disproved an initially plausible but wrong hypothesis (the new wrap/clip indicator's paint cost) with hard numbers before landing on the real cause.
+
+## What Went Well
+
+- **Multi-select shipped as a genuinely additive layer, verified, not just designed that way on paper.** The story's own conversation notes called for this explicitly; the full test suite (388/388) and live smoke both confirm every existing single-select interaction — properties panel, resize/rotate handles, address-line drill-in — works completely unchanged whenever 0 or 1 items are selected.
+- **Root-cause-first debugging for the ad-hoc smoothness regression.** Rather than guessing or re-applying the Sprint 8 fix's exact shape reflexively, the team measured first, found the initial hypothesis wrong, and kept measuring until the actual cause (an unconditional `SelectionChanged` raise) was confirmed with before/after numbers.
+- **Consistent, compounding architecture reuse.** The same rotation-aware bounding-box math served rubber-band selection (Batch 2) and alignment/distribution (Batch 3) without a second implementation — a direct payoff of exposing `CanvasElementEditor.GetWorldBounds` publicly rather than keeping it a private implementation detail of one feature.
+- **Honest technical-debt logging continued under pressure to just move on.** Two new gaps found during this sprint's own live verification — one architectural (Address-Control testability), one cosmetic (GDI+ measurement) — were logged with enough detail to act on later, rather than silently ignored or scope-crept into an unplanned fix.
+
+## What Didn't Go Well
+
+- **The click-smoothness regression was, in shape, a repeat of a bug this team had already found and fixed once.** Sprint 8 found and fixed "an expensive full-refresh runs on every tick of a hot mouse event" for `ElementsChanged`/mouse-move during a drag. This sprint's own `SelectionChanged`/mouse-down handler had the exact same shape of defect — an unconditional expensive refresh on a hot UI event — sitting in the very same file, and it wasn't caught by this team's own verification practices; it took the human product owner noticing a real hitch during actual use, two sprints after the sibling bug was fixed, before it was found. The fix itself was fast and well-verified once reported, but the team's own review/DoD process had no mechanism that would have caught this proactively by generalizing from the earlier, structurally identical fix.
+
+## Patterns / Insights (Prioritized)
+
+1. **(Team-level, real and actionable)** When a performance bug is fixed because a UI event handler runs expensive work unconditionally on a hot event, check every *sibling* event handler on the same control for the identical shape of defect, not just re-verify the one specific gesture that was reported. Sprint 8 fixed this for `OnMouseMove`/`ElementsChanged`; the identical defect in `OnMouseDown`/`SelectionChanged` on the same control went unnoticed for two sprints until a human caught it live.
+2. **(Team-level, real and actionable)** Direct temporary instrumentation (inline `Stopwatch` timers in the suspect method, removed once root-caused) is a fast, effective technique for a reported perf/smoothness regression — proved out this sprint after an initial plausible-sounding hypothesis was measured and disproved. Worth reaching for this *before* forming a hypothesis on the next such report, not only as a fallback once a first guess fails.
+3. **(Team-level, minor, tooling)** A reflection-driven mouse-event harness that clicks exactly on an element's boundary corner (rather than a few points inside its box) can produce a false negative: pixel-truncation in the round-trip through integer mouse coordinates can land a fraction of a point outside a `>=`-style hit-test boundary. Worth a standing habit for future harness-writing: click safely inside an element's box, not on its exact edge.
+
+## Action Items (Add These To Sprint 11's Plan)
+
+- [ ] When fixing an expensive-refresh-on-a-hot-UI-event bug on any canvas control, audit every sibling event handler on that same control for the identical anti-pattern before considering the fix complete — owner: dev-team — due: ongoing, and explicitly re-checked the next time any `TemplateCanvasControl` mouse/key handler is touched.
+- [ ] When investigating a reported perf/smoothness regression, reach for direct temporary instrumentation (inline timers in the suspect code path) as a first step, not a fallback after a hypothesis fails — owner: dev-team — due: ongoing.
+- [ ] In reflection-driven mouse-event harnesses, click a few points inside an element's bounding box rather than exactly on its edge/corner, to avoid false negatives from pixel-truncation round-tripping — owner: dev-team — due: ongoing.
+- [ ] Escalate rather than defer again: actually extract `TemplateCanvasControl`'s Address-Control-specific hit-test/drag/resize/multi-select/align state and math into a new `AddressControlEditor` (Desktop.Core), mirroring `CanvasElementEditor`'s role for standalone elements. This has now been logged and consciously deferred across three features (rotation, multi-select, align/distribute) — recommend product-owner actually size and schedule this as its own story next time capacity allows, rather than continuing to note it and move on — owner: product-owner (to schedule) / dev-team (to size and build) — due: Sprint 11 backlog refinement, as a real candidate, not just a re-logged note.
+
+## Deferred / Lower-Priority Ideas
+
+- "Add an adjustable width and height with text wrapping to Address Control lines" (epic 4, 8 pts) remains the natural next epic-4 pull, deferred from Sprint 10 for exactly this reason.
+- "Warn on text overflow before render" (epic 4, provisional 5 pts) remains blocked on the Address Control wrap/clip story above landing first.
+- "Undo and redo layout changes" (epic 6, 13 pts) remains this backlog's highest-uncertainty estimate and the last story in epic 6 — a reasonable Sprint 11 candidate on its own, but not to be paired with another large/novel story per this team's established caution.
+- "Complete the first text-only operator workflow" (epic 1, 5 pts) remains flagged as a stale label needing re-verification before ever being pulled blind — carried forward unchanged for several sprints now.
+
+## Follow-Up On Previous Retro's Actions
+
+All four of Sprint 9's retrospective action items, checked against `backlog/sprints/sprint-10.md` and `backlog/backlog.md`'s Sprint 10 refinement/planning/review outcomes:
+
+1. **Treat a story's GUI-layer verification as equally load-bearing as any other check, not optional once a different check "feels sufficient"** — Applied. Every GUI-touching item this sprint (the indicator, the delete/resize-handle correction, multi-select, align/distribute) got a real reflection-driven built-form smoke with a genuine screenshot; Batch 3 specifically captured a **fresh** screenshot rather than reusing Batch 2's, exactly matching this discipline's intent.
+2. **Re-confirm/re-size "Support rotated wrapped text and a live wrap/clip indicator for text elements" before it is committed** — Applied, exactly as recommended, during Sprint 10 backlog refinement: renamed, re-sized from 8 to 3 points, confirmed via real code inspection and a licensed end-to-end test that rotation composition was already delivered as a Sprint 9 byproduct.
+3. **Apply the built-form-vs-canvas-only smoke rule per story when epic 6's multi-select/align pair is finally pulled** — Applied, its trigger having finally occurred after being carried forward unchanged for two prior sprints. Batch 2 (multi-select, touches the properties panel) and Batch 3 (align/distribute, adds a new toolbar) each got their own full built-form smoke, with Batch 3's screenshot freshly captured rather than reused — no drop, and the multi-sprint carry finally resolved.
+4. **Evaluate extracting the pre-existing Sprint 6 Address Control interaction logic to a `CanvasElementEditor`-equivalent before/alongside the next story that deepens Address Control interaction** — Triggered twice this sprint (both multi-select and align/distribute deepened Address Control interaction) but the actual extraction was, again, consciously deferred rather than done — correctly logged and disclosed both times rather than silently dropped, but this is now the second sprint in a row this exact trigger has fired without the refactor happening. Escalated above into its own concrete Sprint 11 action item rather than carried forward as a passive note a third time.
+
+Three items show clean follow-through; one (item 4) is honestly flagged as acknowledged-but-deferred for a second consecutive occurrence, escalated rather than quietly re-carried — no silent drops.
+
+## Kit-Level Decision
+
+No kit-level edit proposed this sprint. Both new insights (auditing sibling event handlers for a known anti-pattern; instrumentation-first perf debugging) are team coding/debugging practices, not gaps in the Scrum-kit process, templates, or agent files themselves — logged above as team action items rather than routed to `logs/process_improvement_log.md`. The Sprint 9 retrospective's own **Proposed** license-key-search-depth entry there remains awaiting a human product-owner decision on wording/placement; not revisited this sprint since nothing new changed its status.
+
+## Anti-Patterns Checked
+
+- **No follow-through on prior retro actions:** Ruled out; see "Follow-Up" above — three items show clean follow-through, one is honestly escalated rather than silently re-carried a third time.
+- **Blame-focused discussion:** Ruled out; the click-hitch regression and the recurring Address-Control-testability gap are both described as process/practice gaps to generalize a fix from, not attributed to a person or session.
+- **Hidden mini-waterfall within the sprint:** Ruled out; each of the three batches was designed, implemented, tested, documented, and live-verified within its own pass, consistent with every prior sprint's practice.
+- **Avoiding an obvious known problem:** Ruled out; the click-smoothness regression was investigated to a confirmed root cause and fixed with disclosed before/after evidence, not patched around or left as a caveat.
+- **Status-theater:** Ruled out; every claim this sprint is backed by a specific, checkable number or artifact — exact test counts at each batch boundary, a specific before/after timing measurement for the smoothness fix, and real screenshots for every GUI-touching change.
+- **Review rubber-stamping (Sprint 3-named, resolved Sprint 4, checked at every sprint since):** Ruled out. Sprint 10's review independently re-ran the full test suite and read the actual `CanvasElementEditor`/`TemplateCanvasControl`/`AlignmentCalculator` code directly, and explicitly assessed both ad-hoc items' scoping rather than accepting dev-team's framing at face value.

state.md

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 > The single live "where are we right now" file. Read this FIRST at the start of any session that touches this repo - don't infer phase or sprint from conversation history. Updated LAST by whichever agent completes the current step, as documented in `AGENTS.md` under "Automated State-Driven Handoff."
 
-**Phase:** 3 - Sprint execution
-**Leading agent:** `dev-team`
-**Process file:** `process/03_sprint_execution.md`
+**Phase:** 1 - Backlog refinement
+**Leading agent:** `product-owner`
+**Process file:** `process/01_backlog_refinement.md`
 
-**Sprint:** 10 planned (2026-10-27), not yet executed.
-**Sprint goal:** Let an operator select multiple canvas elements at once (rubber-band or modifier-click, mixing standalone elements and Address Controls) and align/distribute them together, while also finishing the epic-4 wrap/clip chain's live visual indicator.
-**Current sprint backlog:** `backlog/sprints/sprint-10.md`
+**Sprint:** 10 closed (2026-10-27, retrospective complete). Sprint 11 not yet planned.
+**Current sprint backlog:** `backlog/sprints/sprint-10.md` (closed); Sprint 11 not yet created.
 
-**Recent history (Sprint 9, closed 2026-10-27):** Static/dynamic text elements shipped real adjustable width/height with native Debenu wrap/clip (13/13 points, sprint goal met in full); test suite 448/448 -> 476/476. Full detail: `backlog/sprints/sprint-9.md`, `backlog/epics/04_live_preview_and_record_navigation.md`, `backlog/sprints/sprint-9-retrospective.md`. A **Proposed** (not yet applied) process-improvement log entry awaits human review: the project's own Debenu license key (`key.txt`, repo root) was overlooked by at least two prior sprints' searches — logged in `logs/process_improvement_log.md` (2026-10-27).
+**Recent history (Sprint 10, closed 2026-10-27):** Sprint goal met in full — 13/13 committed points across 3 batches: "Add a live wrap/clip indicator for text elements" (3 pts), "Select multiple elements at once on the canvas" (5 pts), "Align and distribute multiple elements" (5 pts). Test suite grew 364/364 -> 388/388 (Desktop.Tests; CLI.Tests unaffected at 124/124). Two ad-hoc, non-committed live-build fixes handled mid-sprint: a Delete-key/toolbar-button feature plus a resize-handle-width-only correction (mid-Batch-1), and a canvas click-smoothness regression fix (`SelectionChanged` was firing unconditionally on every click) with disclosed before/after timing evidence (~50ms to 0.3ms per click). Two new Low/Open technical debt items logged during verification (Address-Control interaction logic remains untested WinForms-only, now underlying three features; a pre-existing GDI+ selection-highlight measurement cosmetic gap). Full detail: `backlog/sprints/sprint-10.md`, `backlog/epics/02_template_designer_gui_foundation.md`, `backlog/epics/04_live_preview_and_record_navigation.md`, `backlog/epics/06_layout_efficiency_and_operator_tooling.md`, `backlog/backlog.md`'s Sprint 10 Review outcome, `backlog/sprints/sprint-10-retrospective.md`.
 
-**Sprint 10 backlog refinement (2026-10-27):** Per the Sprint 9 retrospective's own action item, re-confirmed "Support rotated wrapped text and a live wrap/clip indicator for text elements" (previously 8 pts) via real code inspection and a new licensed end-to-end test — found its rotation-composition scope was already delivered as a byproduct of Sprint 9's implementation (confirmed: `DebenuPdfRenderer.AddPage`'s box branch already calls `DrawRotatedTextBox`, and both canvas/preview box-mode draws already run inside the existing rotation transform). Renamed to "Add a live wrap/clip indicator for text elements" and re-sized down to **3 points** — only the passive visual indicator itself remains. Full detail: `backlog/backlog.md`'s Sprint 10 backlog refinement outcome, `backlog/epics/04_live_preview_and_record_navigation.md`.
+**Sprint 10 retrospective highlights:** named a real, actionable insight — the click-smoothness bug was structurally identical to a Sprint 8 bug already fixed once (an unconditional expensive refresh on a hot UI event), just in a sibling event handler on the same control, and went unnoticed for two sprints; action item added to audit sibling handlers whenever this shape of bug is fixed, not just re-verify the one reported gesture. Also escalated (not just re-carried a third time) the recurring Address-Control-interaction-testability technical debt into a concrete recommendation: actually size and schedule the `AddressControlEditor` extraction as its own Sprint 11 story rather than deferring again. No kit-level edit proposed this sprint; the Sprint 9 retrospective's own **Proposed** license-key-search-depth entry in `logs/process_improvement_log.md` remains awaiting a human decision, unchanged.
 
-**Sprint 10 planning (2026-10-27):** Committed 13 points: the now-3-point indicator story plus epic 6's multi-select ("Select multiple elements at once on the canvas," 5 pts) + align/distribute ("Align and distribute multiple elements," 5 pts) dependent pair — finally pulled after being Ready and deferred twice (Sprint 8, Sprint 9) for fresher, more urgent requests; neither reason applies a third time. Pairing the small indicator story with multi-select's genuinely novel selection-model work does not trip the established "two large/novel stories" caution, since only one side of the pairing carries that risk profile. Full reasoning: `backlog/backlog.md`'s Sprint 10 planning outcome note.
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-**Sprint 10 Batch 1 complete (2026-10-27), plus two ad-hoc corrections mid-batch:** "Add a live wrap/clip indicator for text elements" (3/13 points) shipped — a new framework-free `WrapClipDetector` (Desktop.Core) drives a dashed-orange indicator on the canvas and preview panel, drawn inside the existing per-element rotation transform. Mid-batch, the human product owner raised two live-build issues, addressed together before continuing: (1) **no way to delete a placed element or Address Control** — added `CanvasElementEditor.RemoveSelected()`/`TemplateCanvasControl.RemoveSelectedElement()`, wired to Delete/Backspace and a new toolbar button; (2) **the resize handle should control only box width, font size set elsewhere** — removed the Sprint 8 uniform-font-scale handle behavior entirely; `TextElementLayout.HasBox`/`TemplateElement.HasBox` now mean "Width is set" alone, with `Height` independent and optional (new `HasHeightClip` flag), and `DebenuPdfRenderer.AddPage` gained a "Width alone, auto-height, no clip" render path (`DrawWrappedText`/`GetWrappedText`+`DrawRotatedMultiLineText`). Full suite 476/476 -> 488/488. Live-verified: a real licensed end-to-end CLI render (width-only, unrotated and rotated) showed correct auto-height wrap with no clipping; a reflection-driven built-form harness confirmed the real resize handle sets only Width, the real Delete key removes the selection, and a real canvas screenshot shows the wrap indicator correctly appearing. One disclosed caveat: the toolbar Delete button's `PerformClick()` didn't reliably fire in the synthetic harness (a WinForms quirk absent a real shown window) — proven correct via a direct method call instead. Full detail: `backlog/sprints/sprint-10.md`, `backlog/epics/02_template_designer_gui_foundation.md`, `backlog/epics/04_live_preview_and_record_navigation.md`.
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-**Post-Sprint-10-Batch-1 user-reported regression fix (2026-10-27, handled outside formal ceremony, mid-Sprint-10):** User reported that clicking on and moving a dynamic placeholder had become "not smooth any more." Root cause found by direct `Stopwatch` instrumentation of `TemplateCanvasControl.OnMouseDown` (not guessed): `SelectionChanged` fired unconditionally on every left-click, including a click on an already-selected element (the normal way to start a drag), and `TemplateDesignerForm`'s handler runs the full un-gated `RefreshPropertiesPanel()` every time — a cost (~40-60ms/click, measured) that only became perceptible once this sprint's added property-panel rows made the refresh heavier. Fixed by only raising `SelectionChanged` when the pre-click and post-click selection identity actually differ (`RaiseSelectionChangedIfDifferent`). Live-verified with the same instrumented harness: an already-selected element's second click dropped from ~50ms to 0.295ms; a genuine selection change still pays the warranted refresh unchanged. Full suite re-run: Desktop.Core 364/364, CLI 124/124 (fix isolated to the WinForms-only `TemplateCanvasControl`). Full detail: `backlog/sprints/sprint-10.md`, `backlog/epics/02_template_designer_gui_foundation.md`.
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-**Sprint 10 Batch 2 complete (2026-10-27):** "Select multiple elements at once on the canvas" (5/13 points) shipped — a strictly additive multi-select layer (`CanvasElementEditor.MultiSelected` for standalone elements, `TemplateCanvasControl._multiSelectedAddressControls` for Address Controls) alongside the existing single-selection fields, collapsing back to ordinary single-select whenever 0-1 items end up selected so no existing code path changed behavior. Rubber-band selection and modifier-click toggle both work across a mixed selection of elements and Address Controls; group drag moves the whole set by one shared delta, preserving relative offsets; every selected item is visibly highlighted; the properties panel shows "N items selected" and disables per-item editing. Full suite 364/364 -> 376/376 (Desktop.Core; CLI unaffected). Live-verified via a reflection-driven built-form harness (rubber-band, toggle, group-drag delta math, panel state, a real canvas screenshot) with one disclosed caveat (`Control.ModifierKeys` has no public setter, so modifier-click was verified by calling the same private toggle method directly rather than through a simulated key-press) and one pre-existing, unrelated cosmetic gap found and logged rather than fixed in-scope (a selection highlight border under-wraps a multi-word display string — `logs/technical_debt_log.md`, 2026-10-27). Full detail: `backlog/sprints/sprint-10.md`, `backlog/epics/06_layout_efficiency_and_operator_tooling.md`.
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-**Sprint 10 Batch 3 complete (2026-10-27):** "Align and distribute multiple elements" (5/13 points) shipped — Sprint 10's full committed scope (13/13 points) is now Done. New framework-free `AlignmentCalculator` (Desktop.Core) computes position deltas for 6 alignment edges and 2 distribution axes (center-to-center spacing, a documented MVP simplification) from a list of world-space bounding boxes; `TemplateCanvasControl` feeds it a mixed bounds list (standalone elements via a newly-public `CanvasElementEditor.GetWorldBounds`, Address Controls via a new `GetAddressControlWorldBounds` extracted from Batch 2's rubber-band code) and applies the deltas back. A new 8-button toolbar row triggers the operations, enabled only at 2+ selected items. Full suite 376/376 -> 388/388. Live-verified via reflection-driven harness including a **fresh** full-form screenshot (not reused from Batch 2, per this story's own carry-in note). Full detail: `backlog/sprints/sprint-10.md`, `backlog/epics/06_layout_efficiency_and_operator_tooling.md`.
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-**Sprint 10 Review complete (2026-10-27):** `product-owner` verified all 3 committed stories against acceptance criteria (verdict: sprint goal met in full, 13/13 points). Independently re-ran the full test suite (388/388 Desktop.Tests, 124/124 CLI.Tests, confirmed directly) and read the actual `CanvasElementEditor`/`TemplateCanvasControl`/`AlignmentCalculator` code rather than trusting dev-team's report alone. Confirmed both mid-sprint ad-hoc items (the click-smoothness fix; two newly-logged technical debt entries) are correctly scoped and non-blocking. No new backlog items required. Full detail: `backlog/backlog.md`'s "Sprint 10 Review outcome" section.
+**Next action:** This is the automated workflow's designated pause point — confirm with the user before starting Sprint 11. Once resumed, `product-owner` runs Sprint 11 backlog refinement (`process/01_backlog_refinement.md`), folding in Sprint 10's retro action items (see `backlog/sprints/sprint-10-retrospective.md`'s Action Items — notably, sizing the `AddressControlEditor` extraction as a real candidate story) alongside the carried backlog: "Add an adjustable width and height with text wrapping to Address Control lines" (epic 4, 8 pts, deferred from Sprint 10); "Undo and redo layout changes" (epic 6, 13 pts, highest-uncertainty estimate, now the last story in that epic); "Warn on text overflow before render" (epic 4, provisional 5 pts, still blocked); both epic 7 impediments (asset path strategy, UNC timeout/retry, open since 2026-09-04); "Complete the first text-only operator workflow" (epic 1, 5 pts, still flagged stale).
 
 **Next action:** Proceed directly into Sprint Retrospective (`scrum-master` leads, `process/05_sprint_retrospective.md`) per the automated state-driven handoff — this is the workflow's next designated pause point (per `AGENTS.md`): stop and wait for the user once the retrospective is written, before starting Sprint 11 planning. Candidates to weigh for Sprint 11, once resumed: "Add an adjustable width and height with text wrapping to Address Control lines" (epic 4, 8 pts, deferred from Sprint 10); "Undo and redo layout changes" (epic 6, 13 pts, now the last story in that epic); "Warn on text overflow before render" (epic 4, provisional 5 pts, still blocked); both epic 7 impediments (asset path strategy, UNC timeout/retry, open since 2026-09-04); "Complete the first text-only operator workflow" (epic 1, 5 pts) remains flagged as stale; the Proposed process-improvement log entry above awaiting a human decision; two technical debt items from Sprint 10's verification (Address-Control interaction logic still untested WinForms-only, growing with each new feature built on it; the selection-highlight width cosmetic gap), both Open/Low and non-blocking.
 
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 | 2026-10-27 | 3 - Sprint execution (ad hoc, outside formal ceremony) | User reported that clicking on and moving a dynamic placeholder had become "not smooth any more." Root cause found by directly instrumenting `TemplateCanvasControl.OnMouseDown` with `Stopwatch` timers rather than guessing: `SelectionChanged` fired unconditionally on every left-click — including a click on an already-selected element, the normal way to begin dragging it — and `TemplateDesignerForm`'s handler runs the full un-gated `RefreshPropertiesPanel()` every time, a cost (~40-60ms/click, measured) that only became perceptible once this sprint's added property-panel rows made the refresh heavier. Fixed by capturing the pre-click selection identity and only raising `SelectionChanged` when it actually changed (`RaiseSelectionChangedIfDifferent`). Live-verified with the same instrumented reflection harness: an already-selected element's second click dropped from ~50ms to 0.295ms end-to-end in `OnMouseDown`, while a genuine selection change still correctly pays the warranted refresh cost unchanged. Full suite re-run: Desktop.Core 364/364, CLI 124/124 (fix isolated to the WinForms-only `TemplateCanvasControl`, which has no automated test project). Documented in `backlog/epics/02_template_designer_gui_foundation.md` and `backlog/sprints/sprint-10.md`. |
 | 2026-10-27 | 3 - Sprint execution | `dev-team` completed Sprint 10 Batch 2, "Select multiple elements at once on the canvas" (5/13 points). Additive multi-select layer alongside existing single-selection state (`CanvasElementEditor.MultiSelected`, `TemplateCanvasControl._multiSelectedAddressControls`), collapsing to ordinary single-select at 0-1 items so every existing code path is unaffected. Rubber-band selection (rotation-aware AABB intersection) and modifier-click toggle both work across mixed elements/Address Controls; group drag moves the set by one shared delta preserving relative offsets (snapping the delta once, not each item's position independently); every selected item is visibly highlighted; properties panel shows "N items selected," disabled for per-item editing. 12 new Desktop.Core tests, full suite 364/364 -> 376/376. Live-verified via reflection-driven built-form harness including a real canvas screenshot; one disclosed caveat (`ModifierKeys` has no public setter, so modifier-click verified via direct private-method call) and one unrelated pre-existing cosmetic gap found and logged, not fixed in-scope (selection-highlight width under-wrap). Full detail: `backlog/sprints/sprint-10.md`, `backlog/epics/06_layout_efficiency_and_operator_tooling.md`. |
 | 2026-10-27 | 3 - Sprint execution | `dev-team` completed Sprint 10 Batch 3, "Align and distribute multiple elements" (5/13 points) — sprint's full committed scope (13/13) now Done. New framework-free `AlignmentCalculator` (Desktop.Core) computes deltas for 6 alignment edges and center-spaced distribution along 2 axes from world-space bounding boxes; `TemplateCanvasControl` feeds it a mixed elements/Address-Controls bounds list (reusing/extracting Batch 2's rotation-aware AABB code) and applies deltas back as plain position offsets. New 8-button toolbar row enabled only at 2+ selected items, refreshed in lock-step with existing selection-state refresh so it can't drift out of sync. 12 new Desktop.Core tests, full suite 376/376 -> 388/388. Live-verified via reflection-driven harness: exact expected alignment/distribution results, correct button enable/disable at 0/1/2+ selected, and a fresh full-form screenshot (not reused from Batch 2, per this story's own carry-in note) confirming the new toolbar and highlights render correctly together. Full detail: `backlog/sprints/sprint-10.md`, `backlog/epics/06_layout_efficiency_and_operator_tooling.md`. |
+| 2026-10-27 | 4 - Sprint review | `product-owner` verified all 3 Sprint 10 stories against acceptance criteria (verdict: sprint goal met in full, 13/13 points). Independently re-ran the full test suite (388/388 Desktop.Tests, 124/124 CLI.Tests) and read the actual `CanvasElementEditor`/`TemplateCanvasControl`/`AlignmentCalculator` code directly rather than trusting dev-team's report alone. Confirmed both mid-sprint ad-hoc items (the click-smoothness fix; two newly-logged technical debt entries) are correctly scoped and non-blocking. Updated `backlog/backlog.md`'s epic table and added a "Sprint 10 Review outcome" section. Epic 6 (Layout Efficiency and Operator Tooling) now has 3 of 4 stories Done. |
+| 2026-10-27 | 5 - Sprint retrospective | `scrum-master` ran the retrospective (`backlog/sprints/sprint-10-retrospective.md`). Named a real, actionable insight: the click-smoothness regression was structurally identical to a Sprint 8 bug already fixed once (an unconditional expensive refresh on a hot UI event), just in a sibling event handler (`SelectionChanged`/mouse-down vs. the earlier `ElementsChanged`/mouse-move) on the same control, and went unnoticed for two sprints — new action item to audit sibling handlers whenever this shape of bug is fixed, not just re-verify the one reported gesture. Also named instrumentation-first perf debugging (proved out this sprint) and a minor harness-writing lesson (click inside an element's box, not on its exact edge, in reflection-driven mouse-event tests). Checked all four Sprint 9 retro action items: three show clean follow-through (GUI-smoke discipline, the wrap/clip indicator re-sizing, the built-form-vs-canvas-only smoke rule finally triggered and applied); one (the Address-Control-interaction extraction) triggered for a second consecutive sprint without being done — honestly escalated into a concrete Sprint 11 scheduling recommendation rather than silently re-carried a third time. No kit-level edit proposed. All anti-patterns checked; none found. |