[teampractices] Scrum of scrums

[Chris McMahon]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> I think we need to be clear about the issues we can and cannot address
> with a meeting like the SoS.
>

Thank you for spelling this out.

Ultimately, I think this can be boiled down to: *tactical dependency
> management between teams *with a byproduct of* increased communication
> and on-the-ground transparency* between teams.
>


> I think if we have a critical mass[1] on board, we should go for it. We've
> already got mobile web, ops, and analytics committed to participating in
> something SoS-flavored - in order to achieve critical mass, I think we need
> at least one more team focussed on user-facing features (eg i18n/l10n,
> visual editor, flow, etc) to participate.
>
So, thoughts on the proposal? Any other teams want to be involved in SoS?
>

We might be more chickens than pigs[0] along with the other cross-cutting
concerns like design, security, performance, analytics , but I think
Release Eng/QA in the person of me and/or Greg Grossmeier want to be
involved, even if we mostly lurk.   I agree critical mass[1] probably
depends on the user-facing features teams.



> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_and_the_Pig
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass_(sociodynamics)
>
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