Re: [teampractices] Things that would make Trello even better

2014-06-17 Thread Steven Walling
you look under the "Share and more" menu on a card, it shows the card number and short URL, along with other data. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing list teampractices@lists.wikimedia.or

Re: [teampractices] Impressions about the switch from Trello to Phabricator

2014-05-14 Thread Steven Walling
;t show up in the feeds but is still their for documentation. > > —prtksxna > That seems like a lot of excess work, considering that each time you make a project you have to manage membership from scratch etc. -- Steven Walling, Product Man

Re: [teampractices] Impressions about the switch from Trello to Phabricator

2014-05-13 Thread Steven Walling
r me to save my changes. They also had to refresh their browser tab > to see changes on the task or workboard Yeah this is definitely not awesome. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing lis

[teampractices] Impressions about the switch from Trello to Phabricator

2014-05-13 Thread Steven Walling
7;re immediately editing it. One simple solution might be "double click to edit" or similar in Phabricator. - *Attachments*: Trello shows the attached mockups or other materials as cover images, and overall is slicker. Phabricator does have annotations thoug

Re: [teampractices] Publishing notes from retrospectives and other Scrum meetings

2014-05-07 Thread Steven Walling
d not be posted > publicly, or posted with redactions, I honor that. > Based on the fact that most teams which are keeping retrospective notes seem to be publishing them publicly, we've done the same for Growth at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Retrospectives -- Steven Wall

[teampractices] Publishing notes from retrospectives and other Scrum meetings

2014-04-21 Thread Steven Walling
at your take is. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing list teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices

Re: [teampractices] Mingle

2014-04-16 Thread Steven Walling
nd mockups/design assets connected to the patches that implement them. This is fundamentally how GitHub issues works, and it's so much more efficient. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing li

Re: [teampractices] [Wikitech-l] RfC on Product Management Tools and Development Toolchain

2014-04-15 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Dan Andreescu wrote: > I had volunteered my team to try it out for one of our projects, but I've > been hesitating until we have a blessed version. +1 for Growth. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafou

Re: [teampractices] Bugzilla migration Re: Project management tools review: Regressions/tradeoffs; migration

2014-03-28 Thread Steven Walling
l that's not very well-supported by us or upstream. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing list teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices

Re: [teampractices] Bugzilla migration Re: Project management tools review: Regressions/tradeoffs; migration

2014-03-28 Thread Steven Walling
what I was proposing. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing list teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices

Re: [teampractices] Bugzilla migration Re: Project management tools review: Regressions/tradeoffs; migration

2014-03-26 Thread Steven Walling
ead-mode, simply crosslinking to the original bug report seems fine to me. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing list teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices

Re: [teampractices] Bugzilla migration Re: Project management tools review: Regressions/tradeoffs; migration

2014-03-26 Thread Steven Walling
s sounds like an Assume Good Faith interpretation. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing list teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices

Re: [teampractices] Bugzilla migration Re: Project management tools review: Regressions/tradeoffs; migration

2014-03-26 Thread Steven Walling
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Steven Walling, 26/03/2014 21:38: > > as a group we import tickets from Bugzilla they actually think are >> relevant. >> > > No. > Nemo, it is not particularly constructive to reply this way. Since we w

Re: [teampractices] Bugzilla migration Re: Project management tools review: Regressions/tradeoffs; migration

2014-03-26 Thread Steven Walling
we have teams responsible for importing the bugs from their backlog, the size of the backlog will be proportional to the size of the team. We can supplement this with voluntary signup lists to help out on certain components from Bugzilla. -- Steven Walling,

Re: [teampractices] Project management tools review: Regressions/tradeoffs; migration

2014-03-25 Thread Steven Walling
s documentation and I > have no idea how feasible this is now.) > The status right now is that the creator of a task sets the editability and visibility levels of that task. These two settings are quite fine-grained and somewhat separate: I can create a task that is visible but not edit

Re: [teampractices] Phabricator's Kanban tool

2014-03-24 Thread Steven Walling
I added some to http://fab.wmflabs.org/M1 -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing list teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices

Re: [teampractices] Mingle

2014-03-24 Thread Steven Walling
be that painful even if in another six-twelve months you might want to switch again. Let me know if I can help Analytics set up Trello (I am an admin on our WMF account there). The tool is much more flexible to configure than Mingle, and I could walk you through some of the

Re: [teampractices] Phabricator's Kanban tool

2014-03-21 Thread Steven Walling
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > Now they're dogfooding it: > https://secure.phabricator.com/project/board/773/ > > (Using the board view to track work to make the board view :) ) > I filed an issue. :) -- Steven Walling, P

Re: [teampractices] REMINDER: Project management tools review: Help shorten the list of candidates

2014-03-14 Thread Steven Walling
dered options (which it is). Most of the other tools listed focus more on issues/project management, but Phabricator also potentially replaces the code review and repository viewing portions of our toolkit. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ __

Re: [teampractices] Phabricator's Kanban tool

2014-03-12 Thread Steven Walling
so: https://secure.phabricator.com/T3820 >> >> (What I was pointed to when I asked about that one on IRC) >> >> >> -- >> | Greg GrossmeierGPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | >> | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | >> >

Re: [teampractices] Phabricator's Kanban tool

2014-03-12 Thread Steven Walling
bout how to make tasks and projects hidden/restricted, by consistently using the "Visible To" and "Editable By" fields for tasks/issues. This will make Ops happy I think? Also should create a doc with rules of thumb for what kind of tasks should be public/private etc. -- Ste

Re: [teampractices] Phabricator's Kanban tool

2014-03-12 Thread Steven Walling
t; with the board too much :) > > Definitely excited about the potential of Phabricator as a potential > unified solution to migrate to. > This looks pretty darn good indeed. :) -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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

2014-03-03 Thread Steven Walling
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Katie Horn wrote: > 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. > What Katie and Dan said

Re: [teampractices] pull bugs into Mingle/Trello rather than push

2014-01-23 Thread Steven Walling
op&v1=&format=table&action=wrap It doesn't give you updated since $date, but I find it more useful than the standard list format returned by a search. Thanks again to Andre for showing me this. I'm pretty sure there's

Re: [teampractices] How deviantART organizes its work

2014-01-10 Thread Steven Walling
nd there is Phabricator's own instance you can sign up for at https://secure.phabricator.com This may be a good time set up a test or talk more seriously about Phabricator since we're kicking off a review of project management tools we use... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_management_too

Re: [teampractices] How deviantART organizes its work

2014-01-10 Thread Steven Walling
we can > reevaluate Phabricator for our needs this year. I think we could be > working a lot more efficiently by switching to it. > Having played with their test version, I'd definitely be happy moving to Phabricator as a replacement for Bugzilla, IRC, and maybe even Trello/Mingle. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing list teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices

Re: [teampractices] Hangout alternative - chatb.org

2013-12-16 Thread Steven Walling
ult in people joining the same room. WebRTC apps seem to be missing screensharing, but otherwise I'd really love to ditch Hangouts. It doesn't really work great with Linux, like Matt said. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://

Re: [teampractices] Retrospectives

2013-12-10 Thread Steven Walling
i/Mobile_web/Team >> >> -- >> Arthur Richards >> Software Engineer, Mobile >> [[User:Awjrichards]] >> IRC: awjr >> +1-415-839-6885 x6687 >> >> ___ >> teampractices mailing list >> teampractices@list

[teampractices] Retrospectives

2013-12-09 Thread Steven Walling
ed to ask Arthur, Tomasz, Katie and others about them. 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. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager

Re: [teampractices] How deviantART organizes its work

2013-12-05 Thread Steven Walling
designers go make Wikipedia edits. I think the point is to learn about and empathize with your users, so for this it works well. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing list teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices

Re: [teampractices] Addition to Scrum of Scrums?

2013-12-03 Thread Steven Walling
ere are a > lot of volunteer patchsets languishing, I do not think SoS is the > appropriate forum to deal with this. > Gotcha. I think that's fair. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices

Re: [teampractices] Addition to Scrum of Scrums?

2013-12-03 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Toby Negrin wrote: > Feels like Engineering Community should represent these stakeholders. Seems wise to me. Quim? -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing l

[teampractices] Addition to Scrum of Scrums?

2013-12-02 Thread Steven Walling
and more. I would volunteer myself, but I'm stretched thin already with meetings. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing list teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/ma

Re: [teampractices] How deviantART organizes its work

2013-11-27 Thread Steven Walling
ommunity Department. 1. http://www.sequoiacap.com/grove/posts/akzj/trial-week-our-hiring-secret -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing list teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices

Re: [teampractices] How deviantART organizes its work

2013-11-27 Thread Steven Walling
loyees because sometimes you need to get talented people. But that doesn't make it the best working situation. There are huge benefits to having people co-located, and we should be striving for co-located teams where ever possible. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wiki

Re: [teampractices] Bugzilla Etiquette draft [was: Re: Scrum-y tools based on BZ]

2013-11-26 Thread Steven Walling
tors to that component should be messing around with bug resolution like WONTFIX. Does that seem okay? -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing list teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org https://list

Re: [teampractices] Experimenting with Pivotal Tracker

2013-11-14 Thread Steven Walling
On Thursday, November 14, 2013, Luis Villa wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Steven Walling > > > wrote: > >> A logistical point: Pivotal is proprietary. It's a small company based in >> SF and owned by VMWare. However, they officially give free

Re: [teampractices] Experimenting with Pivotal Tracker

2013-11-14 Thread Steven Walling
p for > you guys :p > No worries. The team has not switched to Pivotal Tracker yet, I just duplicated the core of our engineering stories from the current sprint as a test. > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Arthur Richards > 'aricha...@wikimedia.org');> > > wr

Re: [teampractices] Experimenting with Pivotal Tracker

2013-11-14 Thread Steven Walling
it if necessary? Trello exports a board in JSON, and Pivotal will import/export CSV. Does Mingle have data export functions? -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing list teampractices@lists.wikimedia

Re: [teampractices] Experimenting with Pivotal Tracker

2013-11-13 Thread Steven Walling
willing to give this one a shot, if someone wants to put it on Labs. Thanks for the move and refactor of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_management_tools Matt. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices

Re: [teampractices] Experimenting with Pivotal Tracker

2013-11-13 Thread Steven Walling
toolset for supporting teams. > Does this mean we get to hire an internal tools team someday? :) -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing list teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikim

[teampractices] Experimenting with Pivotal Tracker

2013-11-13 Thread Steven Walling
nt: Pivotal is proprietary. It's a small company based in SF and owned by VMWare. However, they officially give free unlimited access perpetually to public projects and non-profits. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ _

Re: [teampractices] Scrum-y tools based on BZ (was Re: Scrumbu.gs)

2013-11-05 Thread Steven Walling
iaWiki changes to continuous deployment rather than scheduled weekly windows, Scrum's emphasis on time-boxed sprints formed by planning meetings will feel increasingly artificial and "un-agile". -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing list teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices

[teampractices] 7 Sins of Doomed Teams

2013-11-04 Thread Steven Walling
Via Hacker News: http://thehumanfactor.co/7-sins-of-doomed-teams/ I think Gluttony is the worst sin for us PMs. ;-) Something to ponder... -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ teampractices mailing list teampractices

Re: [teampractices] Scrum-y tools based on BZ (was Re: Scrumbu.gs)

2013-10-31 Thread Steven Walling
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 23:12 -0700, Steven Walling wrote: > > My one worry is that prioritization in Bugzilla is less in our > > control, and can sometimes be the subject of a tug-of-war with > > community members. >

Re: [teampractices] Scrum-y tools based on BZ (was Re: Scrumbu.gs)

2013-10-29 Thread Steven Walling
iltype3=substring&email3=&chfieldvalue=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&j_top=AND&f1=noop&o1=noop&v1=&format=table&action=wrap>, I'm coming around to seeing Bugzilla as more useful for big picture prioritization these days. I'd be happy to see how a Bugzilla-b

Re: [teampractices] Story wall for the Scrum of Scrums

2013-10-15 Thread Steven Walling
about > how we could run the SOS and how it might differ from the Biweekly meeting. > Something inside me says that SOS is not the most healthy of acronyms to use for a meeting to prevent cross-team failures. ;) -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wik