Date

Attendees




Goals

Proposed Agenda

  • History of Agile initiative in ITS
    • Go around the room 
      • Experience in agile 
        • Capture
          • What's valuable
          • Biggest challenges
    • Talk about guilds in general
      • Tenants
      • Objectives/Questions
    • Talk about the agile guild
      • Charter review, feedback


Discussion items

TimeItemWhoNotes
--SuccessesTeam
  • Engaged Customers (+1)
  • User Stories to drive requirements (+1)
  • Focused Junks
  • Timeboxes
  • Smaller products (needs vs wants)
  • Technical know-how
  • If customers are disengaged, we fail quickly
  • Transparency
  • Flexible - Developers experiment with different options
  • Trello boards for communication
  • Availability of business reps
  • Delighted customers / Greater trust (+1)
  • Incidents/Service Requests vs Products
  • Estimating every sprint
  • Stakeholder/Developer interaction
  • Continuous feedback
  • Encourages team collaboration (+1)
  • -- Customer to focus on priorities (Sorry, I couldn't read this card clearly! Feel free to edit this! - Caitlin)
  • Daily Stand-ups (+1)
--ChallengesTeam
  • Metrics (+3)
  • Estimating - Time vs Points (+2)
  • Prioritization of Projects (or Products)
  • Small Dev Team - How to scale agile up or down?
  • Team Turnover (Consistency in general)
  • Current organizational culture & structure (+1)
  • Dedication to Project (Distractions, incidents, etc.)
  • Burndown charts (+1)
  • Training
  • Celebrate failures (We don't often enough)
  • Communication of expectations for each role
  • Common understanding of vocabulary (+1)
  • Lack well-refined requirements (+1)
  • PM role in Agile
  • Documentation (Product, technical, etc.)
  • Roadmaps (Product/Project, Strategic)
  • Tech advancements (Learning & estimating curve)
  • Tendency to plateau in progress (revert to business as usual)

Action items

  • Escalate to Sr. Leadership for clarity on PoT use
  • Plan on doing the Playing Card Estimation exercises at a future guild unmeeting
  • Decide when we can all meet again - What is best for group, recognizing that everyone will have some schedule difficulty at some point
  • Please suggest locations for future meetings - Ideally a space with whiteboard, chairs we can move into a circle... what else?
  • Figure out how to add a group to confluence that allows RIT community to access the guild space and the agile guild space

2 commentaires

  1. Caitlin Nairn dit :

    RE: location

    1. Campus Center Reading Room? It doesn't have a whiteboard but it would be great for a discussion
    2. Bamboo room - as long as we reset it at the end of meeting

  2. Lisa Hupf dit :

    In 1600A, the walls have white board paint - only fits about 10 people though.