Team Practices Group/Retrospectives/2015-08-26

The Team Practices Group (TPG) was dissolved in 2017.

Worked Well YAY! edit

  • Feelingz+1+1
  • Emerging engagement model:
  • Kevin engaging with Community Tech
  • Joel engaging with Reading desktop/mobile discussions
  • iOS github retrospective (quick in/out TPG engagement)
  • Tea Time:
    • setting agenda ahead of time (thanks to Joel for supporting this!)
    • meeting being optional
    • I attended a couple of good TTs :)
  • Team Health Checks:
    • Kristen as our fearless PO :)+1 +1 +1
    • subset of the team processing notes
    • The sub-committee kept meeting to close out the themes for Team Health Check +1
    • Sub comm rocking the themes with INTEGRITY
  • Grooming vs. weekly planning still seems to be working well+
  • Staff meeting at end of weekly planning seems to be working well
  • Pair-editing the phabricator pages (but David did all the heavy lifting)
  • Phab feature-upgrade process, David as unofficial PO
    • Go, David!

Mixed: edit

  • some painful discussions, but also some really interesting ideas for Team Health Checks
  • Speedy meeting thing:
    • I like to respect the timebox, but sometimes it’s helpful to keep the discussion going past 50 min mark
    • why is this meeting not speedy?
      • SUGGESTION: Use speedys as guidelines, rather than rules!
  • Rapid prepping for Eng Process Planning is fun but maybe more exciting than valuable (the West Wing syndrome)

Needs Improvement edit

  • Kristen in hospital during what should have been her vacation
    • RHABDOMYOLYSIS
  • Team Health Checks sucking much bandwidth++++++
  • Playing to Win is also an unexpected bandwidth hit
  • Transparency friction/mistakes
  • Struggling to get programming & ops support for burnup script
  • Possibly reschedule grooming to not be during lunch+++
  • Staff meeting: don't always have time to finish agenda+

Puzzlement/Uncategorized edit

  • Retros frequent enough for TPG?++

Discussion edit

  • Team Health Checks sucking much bandwidth++++++
    • Action! TPG members try to document and share amount of time spent on Team Health Check (see bottom of Overall Results doc and Rethink meeting agenda) [ALL]
  • Possibly reschedule grooming to not be during lunch+++
    • Rescheduled to 11am, starting 2015-09-16
  • Transparency:
    • Would like to continue TPG/COO discussion about clarifying transparency expectations
    • Action! TPG meet to discuss and draft models for WMF privacy/transparency/anonymity expectations to share with Terry [KS]
    • Scheduled for Thursday 2015-09-03