Can someone throw me an invite to the meeting? I'm interested in attending.
It's done in a room with a setup suitable for remote participation, I hope? :-) Dan On 18 October 2013 01:11, Arthur Richards <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > > -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager for Platform Wikimedia Foundation
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