On 25 October 2013 03:42, Christian Aistleitner <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > the analytics team is currently spread between UTC-7 and UTC+3. Our > Daily Scrum meeting is at 17:00 UTC, so in local time it varies > between 10:00 .. 20:00. > > Having mandatory meetings every single workday at 20:00 can easily > kill your social life, which is bad™. > > Scrum books and the intertubes mostly mention the problem, and some > even offer some guidance [1]. But we're still looking for a good > solution. > > How do other WMF-teams handle this? > When at "home", the VisualEditor team is spread over 9 timezones (between UTC+1/2 and UTC-7/8 - the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, New York, Portland and San Francisco), with the "average" developer timezone being UTC-4, though sadly none of us live in Barbados. We have a daily standup at 10:00 SF time, which works for our team but mostly because our non-US team members choose to work roughly NYC or even SF hours and so there's a lot of overlap. Though this has served us well for over a year, I'm not sure this is a great model (as you say, it cuts into social time for the team who are remote, though they do occasionally skip stand-ups when they have a match/party/event/etc.). J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester
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