Hello discovery mailing list members.
We'd like to ask for some feedback on how the Discovery team can best use this list. We don't want to muddle the list with information that folks outside the team don't care about, and we want to make sure that what we post is of value.
What sort of information do you think we should share here?
It seems clear that items like these should go on this list:
- Some interesting findings - we ran a test and found x=y! - Something new and we want to suss out interest - What if we moved the search box to a different position on the page‽ - Upcoming projects, or other milestones related to discovery - X users opted-in to the new autocompletion suggester. - Discussions about quarterly goals and roadmaps
There are other items that we could share on this list, but would anyone outside the team be interested? For example, process-related items like:
- Portal team decided to have 3x standups per week instead of 2. - Team structure changes, or plans to change how we do retrospectives - Notifications of meeting minutes being posted (e.g. Weekly team meeting minutes, retrospective minutes, etc.)
For Discovery team members reading this: What criteria do you use (or wish you could use) when thinking, "Should I post this to public list?"
Kevin Smith Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
Hi!
For Discovery team members reading this: What criteria do you use (or wish you could use) when thinking, "Should I post this to public list?"
I use "if I were a community member interested in what Discovery does, would I care about this?". If the answer is yes, it goes to this list, otherwise on internal team list.
Hi,
On 02/24/2016 12:56 PM, Kevin Smith wrote:
There are other items that we could share on this list, but would anyone outside the team be interested? For example, process-related items like:
- Portal team decided to have 3x standups per week instead of 2.
Three times as many standups as before???
- Team structure changes, or plans to change how we do retrospectives
Yes please. It's helpful to know who is working on what.
- Notifications of meeting minutes being posted (e.g. Weekly team meeting minutes, retrospective minutes, etc.)
Yes please.
At least I find it interesting how other teams operate on a day to day basis, what kind of process they're using, and how it's working out. So changes to said process like way moar (or less) standups than before I'd find interesting, but if it's like "Monday standup is now on Tuesday" I don't really care.
-- Legoktm
Thanks for the input.
To be clear, the portal team used to have 2 standups per week, and then shifted to 3 per week. In other words, going from 2x/wk to 3x/wk.
Kevin Smith Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On 02/24/2016 12:56 PM, Kevin Smith wrote:
There are other items that we could share on this list, but would anyone outside the team be interested? For example, process-related items like:
- Portal team decided to have 3x standups per week instead of 2.
Three times as many standups as before???
- Team structure changes, or plans to change how we do retrospectives
Yes please. It's helpful to know who is working on what.
- Notifications of meeting minutes being posted (e.g. Weekly team meeting minutes, retrospective minutes, etc.)
Yes please.
At least I find it interesting how other teams operate on a day to day basis, what kind of process they're using, and how it's working out. So changes to said process like way moar (or less) standups than before I'd find interesting, but if it's like "Monday standup is now on Tuesday" I don't really care.
-- Legoktm
discovery mailing list discovery@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
I'd like to hear about upcoming ideas. Ex: "Hey, I wonder if XXX would increase our user satisfaction metic."
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Kevin Smith ksmith@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks for the input.
To be clear, the portal team used to have 2 standups per week, and then shifted to 3 per week. In other words, going from 2x/wk to 3x/wk.
Kevin Smith Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On 02/24/2016 12:56 PM, Kevin Smith wrote:
There are other items that we could share on this list, but would anyone outside the team be interested? For example, process-related items like:
- Portal team decided to have 3x standups per week instead of 2.
Three times as many standups as before???
- Team structure changes, or plans to change how we do retrospectives
Yes please. It's helpful to know who is working on what.
- Notifications of meeting minutes being posted (e.g. Weekly team meeting minutes, retrospective minutes, etc.)
Yes please.
At least I find it interesting how other teams operate on a day to day basis, what kind of process they're using, and how it's working out. So changes to said process like way moar (or less) standups than before I'd find interesting, but if it's like "Monday standup is now on Tuesday" I don't really care.
-- Legoktm
discovery mailing list discovery@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
discovery mailing list discovery@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
The important thing is the narrative, right? *why* did this change happen?
Sent from my iPhone
On 25 Feb 2016, at 21:17, Kevin Smith ksmith@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks for the input.
To be clear, the portal team used to have 2 standups per week, and then shifted to 3 per week. In other words, going from 2x/wk to 3x/wk.
Kevin Smith Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote: Hi,
On 02/24/2016 12:56 PM, Kevin Smith wrote:
There are other items that we could share on this list, but would anyone outside the team be interested? For example, process-related items like:
- Portal team decided to have 3x standups per week instead of 2.
Three times as many standups as before???
- Team structure changes, or plans to change how we do retrospectives
Yes please. It's helpful to know who is working on what.
- Notifications of meeting minutes being posted (e.g. Weekly team meeting minutes, retrospective minutes, etc.)
Yes please.
At least I find it interesting how other teams operate on a day to day basis, what kind of process they're using, and how it's working out. So changes to said process like way moar (or less) standups than before I'd find interesting, but if it's like "Monday standup is now on Tuesday" I don't really care.
-- Legoktm
discovery mailing list discovery@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
discovery mailing list discovery@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
Thanks everyone for your input. I have updated the mailing list section of the Discovery page[1] to try to summarize the kinds of topics that should go on this list. Further edits, suggestions, and questions are welcome.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery#Mailing_list
Kevin Smith Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:59 PM, Ed Saperia edsaperia@gmail.com wrote:
The important thing is the narrative, right? *why* did this change happen?
Sent from my iPhone
On 25 Feb 2016, at 21:17, Kevin Smith ksmith@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks for the input.
To be clear, the portal team used to have 2 standups per week, and then shifted to 3 per week. In other words, going from 2x/wk to 3x/wk.
Kevin Smith Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On 02/24/2016 12:56 PM, Kevin Smith wrote:
There are other items that we could share on this list, but would anyone outside the team be interested? For example, process-related items like:
- Portal team decided to have 3x standups per week instead of 2.
Three times as many standups as before???
- Team structure changes, or plans to change how we do retrospectives
Yes please. It's helpful to know who is working on what.
- Notifications of meeting minutes being posted (e.g. Weekly team meeting minutes, retrospective minutes, etc.)
Yes please.
At least I find it interesting how other teams operate on a day to day basis, what kind of process they're using, and how it's working out. So changes to said process like way moar (or less) standups than before I'd find interesting, but if it's like "Monday standup is now on Tuesday" I don't really care.
-- Legoktm
discovery mailing list discovery@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
discovery mailing list discovery@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
discovery mailing list discovery@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:43 PM, Kevin Smith ksmith@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks everyone for your input. I have updated the mailing list section of the Discovery page[1] to try to summarize the kinds of topics that should go on this list. Further edits, suggestions, and questions are welcome.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery#Mailing_list
Looks good to me. Minor typo in your email, the correct link has a final "s" [1].
Not directly related, but should we add the new #wikimedia-interactive channel to the the list of IRC channels?
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery#Mailing_lists
Kevin Smith Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:59 PM, Ed Saperia edsaperia@gmail.com wrote:
The important thing is the narrative, right? *why* did this change happen?
Sent from my iPhone
On 25 Feb 2016, at 21:17, Kevin Smith ksmith@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks for the input.
To be clear, the portal team used to have 2 standups per week, and then shifted to 3 per week. In other words, going from 2x/wk to 3x/wk.
Kevin Smith Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On 02/24/2016 12:56 PM, Kevin Smith wrote:
There are other items that we could share on this list, but would anyone outside the team be interested? For example, process-related items like:
- Portal team decided to have 3x standups per week instead of 2.
Three times as many standups as before???
- Team structure changes, or plans to change how we do retrospectives
Yes please. It's helpful to know who is working on what.
- Notifications of meeting minutes being posted (e.g. Weekly team meeting minutes, retrospective minutes, etc.)
Yes please.
At least I find it interesting how other teams operate on a day to day basis, what kind of process they're using, and how it's working out. So changes to said process like way moar (or less) standups than before I'd find interesting, but if it's like "Monday standup is now on Tuesday" I don't really care.
-- Legoktm
discovery mailing list discovery@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
discovery mailing list discovery@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
discovery mailing list discovery@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
discovery mailing list discovery@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On 02/24/2016 12:56 PM, Kevin Smith wrote:
There are other items that we could share on this list, but would anyone outside the team be interested? For example, process-related items like:
- Portal team decided to have 3x standups per week instead of 2.
Three times as many standups as before???
- Team structure changes, or plans to change how we do retrospectives
Yes please. It's helpful to know who is working on what.
- Notifications of meeting minutes being posted (e.g. Weekly team meeting minutes, retrospective minutes, etc.)
Yes please.
At least I find it interesting how other teams operate on a day to day basis, what kind of process they're using, and how it's working out. So changes to said process like way moar (or less) standups than before I'd find interesting, but if it's like "Monday standup is now on Tuesday" I don't really care.
Agree with Lego on all these points. It's useful to know who is working on what, and I always find the meeting minutes helpful.
Cheers, Katie
-- Legoktm
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