Team Practices Group/Retrospectives/2017-06-17

= Last Retro = 2017-05-25

Old Action Items

 * JA: Will give non-present wolves until next week to react to notes before beginning redaction.
 * Next month’s facilitator: ? using spontaneous self-facilitation for this meeting.

= What happened (Since May 25) =
 * Organizational Changes
 * Tune-up was implemented
 * Totally new roles for GG, KS, KL, AR
 * Post-tuna changes
 * Joel’s moving to Technology!
 * TPG/uild Business
 * Annual performance reviews
 * First TPGuild meeting
 * Offsite
 * Wolves GG and KS won’t be at the offsite 😥
 * Decided not to do whale watching cause JA and NH get seasick 🌊
 * And sadly no trip to the cape cod potato chip factory either :(
 * NH didn’t know :( that’d be a great trip
 * MB back, mostly missing for events between retros
 * Engagements/projects
 * JA got fully busy with Editing re-org
 * Very interesting
 * Possible re-emergence of phlogiston (“I’m not dead yet!”)
 * (Victoria is keenly interested)
 * Krarthur™’s development conversation workshops
 * Kevin is diving into coordinating 19 programs across 12 teams in Technology
 * Other org stuff
 * Engagement survey
 * and the aftermath of not having a recording: epicly long email thread
 * Two interesting visitors to WMF gave interesting talks
 * Uzo Iweala
 * Adam Hochschild
 * Non-Work
 * Arthur went on vacation and got poison oak-poisoned
 * Is poison oak actually poison if you don’t eat it? Note: don’t eat it.
 * “Venomous” Oak?
 * Some people claim that by eating fresh, young poison oak leaves you can develop an immunity
 * And an inside-rash

= What went well =
 * AR: Inaugural TPGuild meeting
 * MB: +1 Thanks to Natalia for leading the charge with a pro presentation
 * KL +1 well done
 * KS: Kevin’s post-tuna experience has been quite pleasant
 * JA: Editing Re-org coaching—very productive so far, IMNSHO.
 * Could still collapse spectacularly.
 * JA: Excited to (still) be pairing closely with KS (and GG)
 * KS: Getting Joel into Technology makes me really happy
 * JA: Technology job gives me a clear path to work on annual and quarterly planning.
 * 1st T & C assignment - Loved doing hiring manager trainings (developmental conversation) with Arthur +1
 * Annual Reviews
 * Great annual performance review conversation +1
 * AR: reflecting and pulling together peer/self reviews
 * Enjoy doing reviews, esp. celebrating/reviewing accomplishments (KL)
 * JA: reviews was much simpler than I expected.
 * NH: Writing reviews was harder than I thought but a beneficial exercise
 * NH: I like my 1/1s with Jon Katz

= What went poorly =
 * Tuna issues
 * MB: Still feeling apathetic about a lot since the Consultation. Got the sense that it has been challenging for others, too, based on the check-in at the first Guild meeting (sorry Natalia)
 * AR: post-tuna changes have been somewhat surprising, hard not to feel like the TPG legacy is disappearing
 * MB: Post-tuna feels disjointed, both in separation from former TPG teammates as well as org-feel. Lots of uncertainty now.
 * JA: went from very underworked to about 2.5 full-time threads + travel and leave coming up.
 * JA: 3–6 month plan for Editing Re-Org was squished into 1 month due to Tuna.
 * JA: Editing Department’s medium-term needs for Coaching/management still very vague
 * KS: Peer review deadline was frustrating (the deadline was announced while I was on vacation, and passed while I was still on vacation)...but it ended up being easy to clean up after I got back
 * MB: +1, and hard on hackathon and vacation time
 * AR: sad about GG and KS not attending offsite
 * MB: +1
 * NH: +1
 * JA: +1
 * AR: MB getting trampled
 * MB: +1 no bueno
 * KS: No signs of retrospectives about the tuneup (understandable given all the pain and stress, but not great from an organizational learning perspective)
 * MB: +1, I also recall that there was an offhand comment that we would retro, but have heard nothing since. Additionally, Stillwell seemed to like our idea of retro’ing the changes themselves in 3-6 months’ time, but nothing has been scheduled and I fear it dropping off.
 * JA: wasn’t going to Wikimania, then maybe going to facilitate offsite in Montrèal after Wikimania, then not going, now going to facilitate other offsite in Montrèal after Wikimania.
 * MB: I’ll be there too (offsite only, too) let’s party.
 * I hear the food and nightlife in Montreal are excellent
 * MB: Poutine is gross.

= Other =
 * KS: Not sure how well we’re doing at closing out TPGroup work
 * KS: Feels like longer than 2 weeks since TPG split upmorphed into a Guild, but still feels really weird
 * MB: Also personally felt weird that the transition happened while I was on vacation, not sure if I missed out on something (processing or something else, etc)
 * Feeling mildly weird/unsettled about Offsite

= Followup = Joel to lead getting notes posted.