Re: [teampractices] Retrospectives

2013-12-09 Thread Katie Horn
If I may add a few personal observations to the stack... * The first few retrospectives you have, are going to be fascinatingly awkward. Particularly so for established teams. I've seen this happen several times, and heard tales of many more situations that fit the same pattern: If any of the part

Re: [teampractices] Retrospectives

2013-12-09 Thread Arthur Richards
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Tomasz Finc wrote: > And if we haven't given you enough info. You can find all the notes > from the Mobile Apps team retrospectives on our team page > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team > > Oo oo! And the mobile web team: https://www.mediawiki.org

Re: [teampractices] Retrospectives

2013-12-09 Thread Tomasz Finc
And if we haven't given you enough info. You can find all the notes from the Mobile Apps team retrospectives on our team page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Arthur Richards wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Chris McMahon > wrote:

Re: [teampractices] Retrospectives

2013-12-09 Thread Arthur Richards
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Chris McMahon wrote: > > I'll suggest you do a retrospective for every sprint. These > retrospectives should have three aspects: > > What went well: celebrate your successes, you deserve it. > What did not go well: make a list of issues encountered during the last

Re: [teampractices] Retrospectives

2013-12-09 Thread Diederik van Liere
I started a while back a wiki ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/ScrumRetrospective) explaining the 5 why's method if you want to dig deeper into a problem. The wiki contains some useful references and examples. D On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Arthur Richards wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 9,

Re: [teampractices] Retrospectives

2013-12-09 Thread Arthur Richards
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > Hey all, > > So one of the pieces of feedback out of our Quarterly Review last week for > the Growth team is that we should probably start doing retrospectives to > improve our process. > > I understand the theory behind retrospectives as a p

Re: [teampractices] Retrospectives

2013-12-09 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Chris McMahon wrote: > What went well: celebrate your successes, you deserve it. > What did not go well: make a list of issues encountered during the last > sprint > What to improve: this is where it gets interesting... At the beginning of the retrospective befor

Re: [teampractices] Retrospectives

2013-12-09 Thread Chris McMahon
I'll suggest you do a retrospective for every sprint. These retrospectives should have three aspects: What went well: celebrate your successes, you deserve it. What did not go well: make a list of issues encountered during the last sprint What to improve: this is where it gets interesting... T

Re: [teampractices] Retrospectives

2013-12-09 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > My first question is when should I schedule our retrospectives? For context, > Growth is in the tail end of our fifth sprint, and sprint planning/kickoff > meetings happen on Wednesdays for us. Apps do them every two iterations. Whenever we

[teampractices] Retrospectives

2013-12-09 Thread Steven Walling
Hey all, So one of the pieces of feedback out of our Quarterly Review last week for the Growth team is that we should probably start doing retrospectives to improve our process. I understand the theory behind retrospectives as a product owner, but since we don't have a scrum master, I wanted to a

Re: [teampractices] Bugzilla Etiquette draft

2013-12-09 Thread Andre Klapper
> On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 22:24 -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > > On 11/26/2013 11:25 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Bugzilla_Etiquette > > Can you send this to Wikitech? http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-December/073462.html andre -