Re: [teampractices] Tracking team member calendars?

2015-06-03 Thread Gergo Tisza
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Kevin Smith wrote: > Being able to enter, say "search-team" as a guest, and have the system > auto-expand that as if I had entered 10 names is a reasonable feature. Not > one that exists, apparently, but it would be nice if it did. Just today I > realized that I h

Re: [teampractices] Tracking team member calendars?

2015-06-03 Thread Bryan Davis
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Kevin Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: >> >> > Is it >> > possible to set up group aliases in google calendar, allowing you >> > quickly >> > set up a meeting with a certain 10 people? >> >> I don't see how that's possible giv

Re: [teampractices] Tracking team member calendars?

2015-06-03 Thread Anne Gomez
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Kevin Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Greg Grossmeier > wrote: > >> > Is it >> > possible to set up group aliases in google calendar, allowing you >> quickly >> > set up a meeting with a certain 10 people? >> >> I don't see how that's possible gi

Re: [teampractices] Tracking team member calendars?

2015-06-03 Thread Kevin Smith
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > > Is it > > possible to set up group aliases in google calendar, allowing you quickly > > set up a meeting with a certain 10 people? > > I don't see how that's possible given all of those 10 people have > different scheduled :/ > Being abl

Re: [teampractices] Tracking team member calendars?

2015-06-03 Thread Greg Grossmeier
> I have just now posted a question on the talk page of > https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_IT/Calendars to ask who actually > uses the WMF Sick/Vacation calendar, and whether it should be > decommissioned. I'd welcome that. > Pretending to schedule a meeting is a viable way to determine

Re: [teampractices] Tracking team member calendars?

2015-06-03 Thread Kevin Smith
I have just now posted a question on the talk page of https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_IT/Calendars to ask who actually uses the WMF Sick/Vacation calendar, and whether it should be decommissioned. Pretending to schedule a meeting is a viable way to determine if one person is in or out. It

Re: [teampractices] Tracking team member calendars?

2015-06-03 Thread Arthur Richards
I have found the easiest/most useful method to add vacation time as calendar events on my own personal calendar (as Guillaume described). This lets others trying to schedule meetings with me see when there is a conflict without having to double check against another calendar (one that, if everyone

[teampractices] The invisible hand of group dynamics

2015-06-03 Thread Kevin Smith
Last night, Grace and I attended a local Agile Coaching meetup, and the topic was "The invisible hand of group dynamics". I had no idea what that meant, but we ended up doing an exercise in Systemic Constellations[1]. It's a bit hard to explain without you being there, but several volunteers stood