Thanks for all the advice everyone. I really appreciate it. I think I'll set up our first retrospective for after the holidays, and probably try to do them every two sprints or something.
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Katie Horn <[email protected]> wrote: > If I may add a few personal observations to the stack... > > * The first few retrospectives you have, are going to be fascinatingly > awkward. Particularly so for established teams. > I've seen this happen several times, and heard tales of many more > situations that fit the same pattern: If any of the participants don't feel > like they have had an appropriate official venue in which to raise issues > until you get to the "What didn't work" part of your first retrospective, > the whole meeting will probably blow up. If I had to set up new retros > again, rather than try to time-box it to something reasonable (which would > end up shutting some people down) I'd give the first few retrospective > meetings about 3x the calendar time I'd want to regularly spend once the > situation settles into routine. > > * Keeping at it is probably the easiest way to make it better. > Once the team gets used to having a retrospective, each individual's queue > of things to raise as issues will eventually empty (or at least stabilize). > This both shortens meetings (fewer issues to discuss), and ensures that all > the issues that are brought up, are relatively fresh. Fresh issues are > vastly preferable to stale ones: They will be relevant, and they won't have > had time to fester and become, well, awkward. > > So basically, don't let the first few scare you off. It seems to me that > it always takes a few, to get the whole team to a place in which > retrospectives serve their intended function. > -Katie > > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Arthur Richards > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Tomasz Finc <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> And if we haven't given you enough info. You can find all the notes >>> from the Mobile Apps team retrospectives on our team page >>> >>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team >>> >>> >> Oo oo! And the mobile web team: >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_web/Team >> >> -- >> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > > -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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