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

[Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder]

(1)  Is this actually a request for five full-time-equivalent employees,
people who will do nothing else except this?  "Staffed by three people"
does not necessarily mean "staffed by three full-time employees".

(2)  Did you all know that a significant proportion of our user community
is unhappy with the way that Agile affects them?  "Release early, release
often" from the user's perspective means "have horribly and/or newly busted
stuff screw up your work twice a week."  Among a certain (vocal) subset of
the community, this proposal will be understood as "spend lots of money to
continue screwing up, instead of hiring someone to fix the bugs before we
users ever see them".

Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.



On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes at wikimedia.org> wrote:

So, I'm not an Engineer, I just work here, but my first thought is: you
> want to start with 3 staff, and scale it up to 5 within the same budget
> year, for this?
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