<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial">On 25 October 2013 03:42, Christian Aistleitner </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial"><<a href="mailto:christian@quelltextlich.at" target="_blank">christian@quelltextlich.at</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial"> wrote:</span><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
the analytics team is currently spread between UTC-7 and UTC+3. Our<br>
Daily Scrum meeting is at 17:00 UTC, so in local time it varies<br>
between 10:00 .. 20:00.<br>
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Having mandatory meetings every single workday at 20:00 can easily<br>
kill your social life, which is bad™.<br>
<br>
Scrum books and the intertubes mostly mention the problem, and some<br>
even offer some guidance [1]. But we're still looking for a good<br>
solution.<br>
<br>
How do other WMF-teams handle this?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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.).</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">J.</div></div></div>-- <br>James D. Forrester<br>Product Manager, VisualEditor<br>
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.<br><br><a href="mailto:jforrester@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">jforrester@wikimedia.org</a> | @jdforrester
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