[teampractices] Feedback requested on proposal for creation of Agile Specialist Group

[Katie Horn]

"Providing dedicated resourcing for a team's scrummaster (or similar) role"

Does this mean you're offering to stand up a roving band of nomadic
scrummasters, if that's what the teams decide they want? If so, please sign
me up at the very top of that signup list.

Most of the objections that I have to agile consultants is that they tend
to tell me that I should do less of the required work, which is great when
you either control the size of your team, or don't strongly object to
someone on your small team of engineers dividing their attention between
engineering and getting bogged down in operational overhead.

-Katie


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Tomasz Finc and I have been working on a proposal to create an 'Agile
> Specialist Group' (ASG) in the engineering department that would be
> dedicated to helping the engineering teams at the WMF that want support in
> either adopting or evolving an agile approach to software development.
>
> *We are eager for your feedback*:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Agile_Specialist_Group
>
> Please note that this proposal is to institutionalize and make scalable
> much of the work we have already been doing - providing mentorship,
> support, and trainings to those who have asked for it. None of what the ASG
> would offer would be mandatory. Everything the ASG would offer would be in
> collaborative service to the team's and individuals seeking its support.
>
> Please provide feedback either on this list or on the discussion page:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Engineering/Agile_Specialist_Group
>
> Thanks for your time and input!
>
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