Re: [teampractices] [Engineering] Feedback requested on proposal for creation of Agile Specialist Group

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Re: [teampractices] Mingle

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Re: [teampractices] Publishing notes from retrospectives and other Scrum meetings

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[teampractices] Fwd: Please welcome Kristen Lans, ScrumMaster

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Re: [teampractices] Please welcome Kristen Lans, ScrumMaster

Of course I forwarded this without correcting a terrible typo, for the record, Kristen's name is Kristen - NOT Kirsten ;) On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone, I'm very pleased to welcome Kirsten Lans to the Wikimedia Foundation

[teampractices] Team health check survey: your feedback wanted!

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[teampractices] Announcing #wikimedia-teampractices IRC channel

and beyond. -- Arthur Richards Team Practices Manager [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687 ___ teampractices mailing list teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices

Re: [teampractices] Team health check survey: your feedback wanted!

to teams currently engaged or soon engaging with the TPG - mobile web, mobile apps, mediawiki core, and analytics - by the end of this quarter. On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote: The Team Practices Group https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki

[teampractices] Effective communication tips for operating across timezones

;) http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2014/09/12/effective-communication-tips-operating-business-across-time-zones/ -- Arthur Richards Team Practices Manager [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687 ___ teampractices mailing list teampractices

[teampractices] Spotify's team health check survey

this was worth sharing since a number of you asked to see more details about Spotify's survey. [1] https://labs.spotify.com/2014/09/16/squad-health-check-model/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Health_check_survey -- Arthur Richards Team Practices Manager [[User:Awjrichards

[teampractices] Meet-up at WMF: Exploratory Testing for Complex Software, Oct 22 2014

in the Pivotal offices, where she is the Director of Quality Engineering for Cloud Foundry, Pivotal's Open Source Platform as a Service (PaaS). [2] http://www.meetup.com/wikimedia-tech/events/207856222/ -- Arthur Richards Team Practices Manager [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687

Re: [teampractices] Meet-up at WMF: Exploratory Testing for Complex Software, Oct 22 2014

Just a reminder that this is happening this coming Wednesday, and that we are planning to record/broadcast the event for remote participants. On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 the Quality Assurance Group and Team

Re: [teampractices] Burndown charts progress in Phabricatotr (was Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator update)

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Re: [teampractices] mingle seats

On Nov 6, 2014 9:49 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 10/20/2014 02:56 PM, Arthur Richards wrote: PS since the scrum of scrums dependency wall is managed in Mingle, I am hesitant to kill accounts for any active WMF engineers. We should start thinking about how we can

Re: [teampractices] mingle seats

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Re: [teampractices] mingle seats

://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/sos/board/ Bryan On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote: You guys rock :) When the board's created I am happy to help support getting the SoS folks to try it out. On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote

Re: [teampractices] Global SCRUM GATHERING(R) News: Submit Your Session for Phoenix!

Just a reminder that the deadline for submissions is this Sunday, Nov 30. On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote: If anyone's interested in presenting at an upcoming Global Scrum Gathering, there's a call for papers open until Nov 30 for the next one

Re: [teampractices] Triaging bugs and managing task backlog in Phabricator

from another team's, and that 'done' means different things for different teams. To wit, teams should have swim lanes/categories on their workboard that make sense for their workflow, and teams should have a shared definition/understanding of what 'done' means to them. -- Arthur Richards Team

Re: [teampractices] Thesis project: Phragile - sprint overviews for Phabricator

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Re: [teampractices] Please ALWAYS set Sprint start and end dates when marking a Phabricator project as a sprint

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Re: [teampractices] What does coach mean?

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Re: [teampractices] Code review before writing new code

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Re: [teampractices] [Wikitech-l] Read the VisualEditor process review

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Re: [teampractices] Code review before writing new code

Bar. Exactly. And thus a team prioritizing Bar might continue coding on Bar, allowing the queue of pending Foo code reviews to pile up. What Kevin said :) Thanks Kevin! -- Arthur Richards Team Practices Manager [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687

Re: [teampractices] [Wikitech-l] interesting read: what makes great PMs

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Re: [teampractices] [Engineering] The end of the Roadmap Phabricator project

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Re: [teampractices] [TPG/URGENT-ISH] Thoughts on Gerrit Cleanup Day

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Re: [teampractices] Who doesn't love calendars?

ere. > > -- > Quim Gil > Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > > ___ > teampractices mailing list > teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [teampractices] Who doesn't love calendars?

calendar into Phabricator? Thanks again, Arthur On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Arthur Richards <aricha...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Quim, I read the description of the task you share

Re: [teampractices] Who doesn't love calendars?

Quim, thanks so much for the clarifications - I get it now :) On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Arthur Richards <aricha...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Thanks Quim for your response - I

Re: [teampractices] Phabricator workboards appear to show story point, WIP limit, AND count

Psyched to see this! The fact that this didn't happen previously was a pet peeve of mine. On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:27 PM, James Forrester <jforres...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On 28 April 2016 at 12:18, Arthur Richards <aricha...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Cool!

Re: [teampractices] Phabricator workboards appear to show story point, WIP limit, AND count

hat the WIP is still points-based, rather > than count-based, but this is a good first step! :) > > ___ > teampractices mailing list > teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractic

Re: [teampractices] 2 interesting articles about design

le to my face. ¡ Viva ComicSans !​ ​ ​ -- Arthur Richards Sr. Agile Coach: Organizational Collaboration Team Practices Group <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group> [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687 ___ teampractices mailing l

Re: [teampractices] On the importance of deep knowledge to getting work done

> > http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html > > > > > *-- Joel Aufrecht* > Team Practices Group > Wikimedia Foundation > > ___ > teampractices mailing list > teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedi

Re: [teampractices] Old-ish but relevant blog post from Luis Villa on bug wrangling and backlogs

t; http://lu.is/blog/2014/03/28/i-am-the-cadt-and-advice-on-nee > dinfoing-old-bugs-en-masse/ > > ___ > teampractices mailing list > teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices >

Re: [teampractices] "post it" like collaboration on web

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate > <http://donate.wikimedia.org>. * > > > > ___ > teampractices mailing list > teampracti

Re: [teampractices] Coming up with a Phab tag for "spike"

d in other opinions, preferably on the Phab ticket > itself. :) > > ___ > teampractices mailing list > teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > > -- Arthur Richards Sr. Ag

Re: [teampractices] W. Edwards Deming - The Deadly Diseases of Management

ipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming#Seven_Deadly_Diseases > > ___ > teampractices mailing list > teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > > -- Arthur Richards Sr. Agile Coach: Or

Re: [teampractices] Retrospectives: Getting deep and personal

+1 to Strine's thoughts. Very similarly and in line with David said about getting a team to name emotions that occurred around mechanical feedback (I'm removing the 'factual' part that David originally included because emotions are facts too!), I've also had success combining the "mad, sad, glad"

Re: [teampractices] Retrospectives: Getting deep and personal

ts, the more we > need to think outside of the box. > > I might add the "adjective game" in a follow up. > > > > > [1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9thode_Photolangage > [2] http://www.picturetelling.ch/e/method/ > [3] http://tastycupcakes.org/2014/06/the-rocket-retr

Re: [teampractices] FYI: Phabricator workaround for manually selecting tasks to bulk-edit

Awesome thanks Joel. Max, I think you can only batch edit from advanced query if you have special permissions (I forget what they are called). Joel, do you need special permissions to batch edit in the way you describe? If so, it would be worth mentioning in docs. On Fri, Oct 7, 2016, 18:12 Max

Re: [teampractices] My experience at Agile Games West 2016

Thanks for sharing this Max, sounds like an interesting few sessions. Would love to hear more about 'the sorting hat'! On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 6:09 AM Max Binder wrote: > I recently attended a "pre-conference" to Agile Open California. I wrote > up my experience and

Re: [teampractices] Upgrade For Free

t; _______ > teampractices mailing list > teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > -- *Arthur Richards* (he/him/his) Learning and Development Lead Wikimedia Foundation <https://wi