Thanks everyone who came and participated in the first scrum of scrums! Overall, I think it went really well - particularly considering this was our first iteration of this experiment.
There are just a few points I'd like to mention before we dive into the next one: * Please be on time. We got started late with the first one, which exacerbates the challenge of coordinating between all of the teams in 30 minutes. I have extended the room reservation to begin at 10:25am to allow a few minutes for folks to show up, set up the hangout, etc. I will start the next one at 10:30am PDT with or without you :) * I think there was some feeling about folks discussing things that weren't really pertinent/important for other teams to here. I think this is OK, and it will just take some calibration for us to figure out what's the good stuff to bring up and what's not. I think that Diederik's proposal (see 'Story wall for the Scrum of Scrums') of using some kind of visual representation of the dependencies, etc can help keep conversation well focussed - but we also want to provide some space for us to discover hidden dependencies or other ways in which we can collaborate. * I personally had the sense that overall the first meeting was useful, as touchpoints/dependencies/places for collaboration were highlighted, discovered, and briefly discussed. Of course I am biased because I am eager for this to succeed, so I am curious to hear other perspectives. * There was a mistake in preparing calendar invites, and Trevor (of the VisualEditor team) was left off. I only noticed minutes prior to the meeting and unfortunately VE was not represented. As you can likely tell from the notes, there were a few touchpoints discussed between VE and other teams. Sorry for the mixup! * We have a retrospective scheduled for Nov 12 to evaluate how things have been going with the SoS - but please don't hesitate to discuss/share thoughts/etc before that so we can continue to make improvements as we move forward. Thanks again, Arthur On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Arthur Richards <[email protected]>wrote: > Whoops, that was an oversight - the language team is also already on the > list :-) > On Oct 9, 2013 9:40 PM, "Alolita Sharma" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Arthur, >> >> Can you add the Language team to the list of teams interested in >> participating in the SoS. Amir is on vacation this week and may not have >> responded. >> >> Best, >> Alolita >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Excellent; thanks for driving this, Arthur. >>> >>> For those who are skeptical about such things, please keep in mind >>> it's just an experiment and the eval after a month will hopefully lead >>> to a decision by the participating teams on whether it is / can be a >>> useful investment of time or not. I don't think anyone disagrees that >>> we need to continually improve inter-team communications and this is >>> one of many possible ways of going about it. :) I'm really pleased so >>> many teams decided to sign up and participate in this trial run. >>> >>> All best, >>> Erik >>> -- >>> Erik Möller >>> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> teampractices mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Alolita Sharma >> Director of Engineering >> Language Engineering (i18n/L10n) >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> teampractices mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices >> >> -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687
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