[teampractices] Here comes the scrum of scrums

[Dan Garry]

Can someone throw me an invite to the meeting? I'm interested in attending.

It's done in a room with a setup suitable for remote participation, I hope?
:-)

Dan


On 18 October 2013 01:11, Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Thanks everyone who came and participated in the first scrum of scrums!
> Overall, I think it went really well - particularly considering this was
> our first iteration of this experiment.
>
> There are just a few points I'd like to mention before we dive into the
> next one:
> * Please be on time. We got started late with the first one, which
> exacerbates the challenge of coordinating between all of the teams in 30
> minutes. I have extended the room reservation to begin at 10:25am to allow
> a few minutes for folks to show up, set up the hangout, etc. I will start
> the next one at 10:30am PDT with or without you :)
>
> * I think there was some feeling about folks discussing things that
> weren't really pertinent/important for other teams to here. I think this is
> OK, and it will just take some calibration for us to figure out what's the
> good stuff to bring up and what's not. I think that Diederik's proposal
> (see 'Story wall for the Scrum of Scrums') of using some kind of visual
> representation of the dependencies, etc can help keep conversation well
> focussed - but we also want to provide some space for us to discover hidden
> dependencies or other ways in which we can collaborate.
>
> * I personally had the sense that overall the first meeting was useful, as
> touchpoints/dependencies/places for collaboration were highlighted,
> discovered, and briefly discussed. Of course I am biased because I am eager
> for this to succeed, so I am curious to hear other perspectives.
>
> * There was a mistake in preparing calendar invites, and Trevor (of the
> VisualEditor team) was left off. I only noticed minutes prior to the
> meeting and unfortunately VE was not represented. As you can likely tell
> from the notes, there were a few touchpoints discussed between VE and other
> teams. Sorry for the mixup!
>
> * We have a retrospective scheduled for Nov 12 to evaluate how things have
> been going with the SoS - but please don't hesitate to discuss/share
> thoughts/etc before that so we can continue to make improvements as we move
> forward.
>
> Thanks again,
> Arthur
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>
>> Whoops, that was an oversight - the language team is also already on the
>> list :-)
>>  On Oct 9, 2013 9:40 PM, "Alolita Sharma" <asharma at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Arthur,
>>>
>>> Can you add the Language team to the list of teams interested in
>>> participating in the SoS. Amir is on vacation this week and may not have
>>> responded.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Alolita
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Excellent; thanks for driving this, Arthur.
>>>>
>>>> For those who are skeptical about such things, please keep in mind
>>>> it's just an experiment and the eval after a month will hopefully lead
>>>> to a decision by the participating teams on whether it is / can be a
>>>> useful investment of time or not. I don't think anyone disagrees that
>>>> we need to continually improve inter-team communications and this is
>>>> one of many possible ways of going about it. :) I'm really pleased so
>>>> many teams decided to sign up and participate in this trial run.
>>>>
>>>> All best,
>>>> Erik
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>>>> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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Dan Garry
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