CSV_TO_PDF_REPORT/state.md

Project State

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: 1 - Backlog refinement (next sprint cycle) Leading agent: product-owner Process file: process/01_backlog_refinement.md

Sprint: 3 closed. Sprint 4 not yet planned. Sprint goal (Sprint 3, closed): Close the high-volume render throughput risk with a confirmed root cause and a measured mitigation, and deliver the first slice of CSV field mapping (load headers, bind a dynamic field, rebind it). Met in full. Current sprint backlog: none active — see backlog/sprints/sprint-3.md (closed) and backlog/sprints/sprint-3-retrospective.md.

Next action: Sprint 3 retrospective complete (backlog/sprints/sprint-3-retrospective.md) — full follow-through on all 4 Sprint 2 retro actions confirmed, no drops; four Sprint 4 action items and one process “Watching” item logged (see logs/process_improvement_log.md, 2026-09-22 entry); no kit edits made. Mid-refinement, the user requested a new rotation capability for text/dynamic field elements. product-owner clarified scope with the user, then wrote and readied two new dependent stories in backlog/epics/02_template_designer_gui_foundation.md (reopened from Done): “Set a rotation angle for text and dynamic field elements” (8 points) and “Rotate elements by dragging a handle on the canvas” (5 points) — dev-team sized both with real code/vendor-API inspection, both pass the Definition of Ready. backlog/backlog.md records a placement recommendation: slot rotation after the two already-flagged Sprint 4 carryover items (“Collapse blank optional address lines,” 5 pts; “Harden production configuration delivery,” 2 pts), for a possible 20-point Sprint 4 (top of the 19-20 point velocity range — a ceiling to watch, not a target). This remains a natural pause point — confirm with the user before starting Sprint 4 planning. The backlog now has enough Ready work (20 points across 4 items) to fill Sprint 4; refinement's exit criteria are met whenever the user is ready to move to Phase 2.

Phase reference

#	Phase	Leading agent	Process file
0	Project onboarding	product-owner + scrum-master	process/00_project_onboarding.md
1	Backlog refinement	product-owner (+ dev-team sizing)	process/01_backlog_refinement.md
2	Sprint planning	scrum-master facilitates	process/02_sprint_planning.md
3	Sprint execution	dev-team (+ scrum-master daily scrum)	process/03_sprint_execution.md
4	Sprint review	product-owner leads	process/04_sprint_review.md
5	Sprint retrospective	scrum-master leads	process/05_sprint_retrospective.md
-	Technical debt (continuous)	qa-tech-debt	process/06_technical_debt_management.md
-	Portfolio/release planning (as needed)	release-planner	AGENTS.md - Multilevel Planning
-	Process self-improvement (end of every retro)	scrum-master	process/07_process_improvement.md

After phase 5, loop back to phase 1 for the next sprint.

History

Date	Phase completed	Notes
2026-09-04	0 - Project onboarding	Seeded project config, Definition of Done, initial epic backlog, and open questions from Envelope_Report_Generator_Requirements.md.
2026-09-04	1 - Backlog refinement	Refined the top epics into sprint-ready stories, confirmed C#/.NET 10 as the application stack, and reordered the backlog for the first text-only MVP slice.
2026-09-04	2 - Sprint planning	Created Sprint 1 around a conservative desktop-to-CLI text-only rendering spine and recorded the committed backlog in backlog/sprints/sprint-1.md.
2026-09-08	3 - Sprint execution (in progress)	Held Daily Scrum #1 and turned the sprint backlog into a dependency-ordered execution plan (5 batches) in backlog/sprints/sprint-1.md. Still in phase 3 — not a phase transition, just the day's checkpoint.
2026-09-08	3 - Sprint execution	All 5 batches Done: CLI render contract, real Debenu text-only rendering, stdout progress events, WinForms desktop launch shell (user-confirmed as the UI framework), and live progress/completion display. 106 tests passing end-to-end. Sprint goal met with real verified runs against the 392-row sample CSV.
2026-09-11	4 - Sprint review	product-owner verified all 5 stories against acceptance criteria (verdict: sprint goal met, with two tracked caveats — see backlog/sprints/sprint-1.md's Sprint Review Outcome section). Updated backlog/backlog.md and epics 01/05/07 with Done notes and two new follow-up stories. Logged one process-improvement item (Watching) for the retrospective re: verifying GUI stories against the actual built artifact, not just an in-process harness — this is exactly what let the license-key bug (fixed same-day, see logs/technical_debt_log.md) through undetected.
2026-09-11	5 - Sprint retrospective	scrum-master ran the retrospective (backlog/sprints/sprint-1-retrospective.md). Named two team-level strengths to keep (dependency-ordered batch swarming; “leave it better than you found it” plus honest gap self-reporting) and one lower-priority deferred idea (re-trigger the 100k-record benchmark when hot-path code changes). Decided the DoD/verification-gap item meets the bar for a proposed kit edit (single severe occurrence) and drafted specific wording for templates/definition_of_done.md. User approved the edit same-day; it was applied to the template (confirmed in logs/process_improvement_log.md, Status: Applied) — state.md briefly and incorrectly described this as still pending in a later note, corrected on 2026-09-14. Checked all four named anti-patterns; none found (one near-miss on thin GUI evidence named explicitly, addressed via the DoD edit and a Sprint 2 action item rather than swept aside).
2026-09-14	2 - Sprint planning	scrum-master facilitated Sprint 2 planning with product-owner and dev-team. Committed 19 points: the overdue high-volume benchmark spike (pulled first per the retrospective action item) plus the full Template Designer GUI Foundation epic as one coherent vertical slice (canvas dimensions -> text placement -> properties panel -> save/reopen). CSV Integration stories deferred whole to Sprint 3 (3 of 4 hard-depend on this sprint's text-placement story); “Load CSV headers” kept as an explicit stretch item since it has no such dependency. Capacity treated as low-confidence off one data point (Sprint 1's 20 completed points). Recorded in backlog/sprints/sprint-2.md.
2026-09-14	3 - Sprint execution	dev-team completed all 5 committed batches in dependency order (one interruption/resume mid-run due to a session rate limit, no work lost). Batch 1 (benchmark spike) found a material, previously-unknown risk: real-world throughput degrades from ~399 rec/s to ~15 rec/s and falling at ~100k-record scale, missing the 10-minute target by 5x-10x+, isolated to Debenu Quick PDF Library 10.13's document model — logged as a new Ready story plus a High-impact tech debt entry rather than fixed in-scope. Batches 2-5 delivered the full Template Designer GUI Foundation epic (canvas dimensions, text placement, properties panel, save/reopen), each verified live against the actual built .exe per the Sprint 1 retrospective's DoD edit. 195/195 tests passing. Stretch item not pulled (full committed slice prioritized over starting more scope).
2026-09-18	4 - Sprint review	product-owner verified all 5 Sprint 2 stories against acceptance criteria (verdict: sprint goal met). Updated backlog/backlog.md and epics 02/05 with Done notes and verification detail; confirmed and endorsed dev-team's benchmark self-verification, framing it as a successful spike (story ACs met) surfacing a failing product metric (target missed), not a failed story. Recommended prioritizing the new throughput-investigation story at or near the top of Sprint 3.
2026-09-18	5 - Sprint retrospective	scrum-master ran the retrospective (backlog/sprints/sprint-2-retrospective.md). Confirmed full follow-through on all four Sprint 1 retro action items (clean sprint, no drops) — notably, the Sprint 1-named “thin GUI evidence” weakness was concretely fixed this sprint via live actual-.exe verification on every GUI story. No kit-level edit proposed (one low-severity, single-occurrence daily-log arithmetic slip found; below the bar for a kit change, logged as a deferred watch item). Checked all four named anti-patterns plus the Sprint 1 status-theater near-miss; none found, with the status-theater near-miss specifically improved on rather than repeated.
2026-09-21	2 - Sprint planning	scrum-master facilitated Sprint 3 planning with dev-team sizing support. Sized the previously-unsized “Investigate and address high-volume render throughput degradation” story at 8 points (bounded by its own time-boxed acceptance criteria plus a code-inspection-backed feasibility check, recorded in backlog/epics/05_cli_rendering_engine_and_debenu_integration.md). Committed 18 points (throughput story first, then the CSV Integration chain in backlog order) against a 19-20 point velocity range, deliberately leaving “Collapse blank optional address lines” and “Harden production configuration delivery” uncommitted for capacity discipline. Recorded in backlog/sprints/sprint-3.md.
2026-09-21 to 2026-09-22	3 - Sprint execution	dev-team completed all 4 committed batches in dependency order across 2 daily-scrum entries. Batch 1 (throughput investigation, 8 points): confirmed the Debenu-internal-document-model hypothesis via a scaled-down real-DLL probe, implemented a batch+merge mitigation in DebenuPdfRenderer, and re-ran the full 100k-record benchmark to completion at 315s (~47.5% under the 10-minute target) — closing the High-impact debt item opened at Sprint 2 close, while honestly logging a new, narrower Medium-impact file-size risk at the 1,000,000-record ceiling rather than overclaiming full closure. Batches 2-4 (CSV Integration chain, 10 points): loaded CSV headers into the desktop app, bound a dynamic text field to a real column, and added rebind-without-repositioning — all live-verified against the real built .exe. 223/223 tests passing (up from 195).
2026-09-22	4 - Sprint review	product-owner verified all 4 Sprint 3 stories against acceptance criteria (verdict: sprint goal met in full, no gaps). Updated backlog/backlog.md's epic status table and added a “Sprint 3 Review outcome” section; added an independent confirmation note to the throughput story in backlog/epics/05_cli_rendering_engine_and_debenu_integration.md. Confirmed the new file-size technical debt item as open-but-non-blocking; unblocked “Collapse blank optional address lines” for Sprint 4.
2026-09-22	5 - Sprint retrospective	scrum-master ran the retrospective (backlog/sprints/sprint-3-retrospective.md). Confirmed full follow-through on all four Sprint 2 retro action items, the second clean full-follow-through sprint in a row — notably, the Sprint 2-named test-count arithmetic watch item did not recur. Named a new team strength (“verify spec/code before building,” caught a stale token-format assumption pre-implementation) and logged one low-severity, first-occurrence process watch item (product-owner's Sprint 3 review leaning on dev-team's pre-written verification notes for 3 of 4 stories) to logs/process_improvement_log.md rather than the sprint plan, per the kit/team-insight split — no kit edit made, revisit at Sprint 4 review. Checked all five named anti-patterns (including the Sprint 1 status-theater near-miss); none found.