On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 20:25, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to request that every Audiences and Technology team submit highlights of recent and upcoming activities for inclusion in every set of SoS notes, even if no one personally attends the SoS meeting from a particular team, so that readers of these notes can keep better track of what is happening in the Audiences and Technology departments and so that readers can make adjustments to our own plans as needed.
Scrum of scrums meetings are intended to be a venue for development teams to surface upcoming blockers and dependencies on other teams, so that teams can better work together and not block each other. Scrum of scrums meetings are not intended to be a forum for general announcements about activities by end-users. These are very different use cases with different target audiences.
I understand your concerns about visibility of the actions inside the Wikimedia Foundation. It's certainly difficult to see things from the outside. That said, taking a meeting with a well-defined purpose and objective, and expanding that objective to add an additional, quite different use case, is not good practice; doing so may cause people to disengage or lose focus, thereby meaning the original objective of the meeting is no longer met.
Some reading you might find useful:
- https://www.agilealliance.org/glossary/scrum-of-scrums/ - https://www.scruminc.com/scrum-of-scrums/
Dan