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

[Antoine Musso]

Le 04/03/2014 00:44, Arthur Richards a écrit :
> 
> 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

Quoting from that link:

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[..] Tomasz Finc and Arthur Richards started conducting internal
trainings for teams [..]. This had the advantage of providing a
WMF-centric perspective, keeping and evolving knowledge in-house,
engendering a greater degree of trust amongst the teams, and building a
stronger sense of collaboration and unity.
However, this approach has negatively impacted Tomasz and Arthur’s other
existing responsibilities and has provided little room for followup or
improvement, highlighting that this approach is not scalable.
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That sounds very easy to solve to me.

On one hand we have two resources (Arthur and Tomasz) with proven track
records of successfully "agilizating" folks.

On the other hand, they are distracted with other responsibilities.


My lame proposal would be to ask Arthur and Tomasz whether they would be
interested to change role and become "principal agile evangelists". Aka
dedicated to spreading Agility around (the ASG proposal?).

But I guess you two are not wiling to move away from your current
awesome mobile team :-]


My 0x3ca3d70a cents (IEEE 754)

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Antoine "hashar" Musso