Team Practices Group/Retrospectives/2015-08-26

=Worked Well YAY!=
 * 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:=
 * 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=
 * 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=
 * Retros frequent enough for TPG?++

Discussion

 * 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