Team Practices Group/Goals/FY2016Q4

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

FY2016Q4 (Apr - Jun 2016) Quarterly Goals and Milestones[edit]

Goal Milestones ETA Dependency Status
Goal 1 - STRENGTHEN

T131304

Assess skills within TPG related to WMF capacity enhancement needs

  • Wiki page describing needs/requests
  • Wiki page with TPG skillsets/specialty areas
EoQ Yes Done

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Goal 2 - FOCUS

T131303 Define a plan for measuring satisfaction of "light engagement" customers

  • Survey instrument drafted
  • Process for processing and analyzing results defined and documented
  • Q1 rollout plan in place
EoQ Design Research Yes Done

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Goal 3 - STRENGTHEN

T131312 Support Annual Planning Retrospective

TBD EoQ Jaime, Wes In progress In progress
Goal 3 - FOCUS

T131305 Support Quarterly Planning and Review Improvements

  • Support the delivery and planning of quarterly planning and review improvements
EoQ Communications, Vertical Heads, Managers, Staff Representatives DEPRECATED

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FY2016Q4 (April - June 2016) Essential Functions[edit]

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Goal Initiative FY2016Q4 Milestone
Provide periodic external team support. Evidence-Based Project Planning Lightweight engagements: Collaboration, Language,
Other Lightweight engagements: RelEng, ArchCom, Designers

Mentoring in team practices: Analytics Engineering, Designers, OIT, Wikipedia Education Program/Dashboard

Events: Planned/facilitated Reading offsite, planned/facilitated Discovery search offsite, planned Editing Department Retrospective

Provide ongoing external team support. Provide embedded Practices support Teams Agile Coached this quarter: VE, Engagement Metrics, Discovery Search, Discovery Portal, Discovery Analysis, Research & Data, Design Research, Analytics Engineering

Teams Scrum Mastered this quarter: Reading Web, iOS, Android.

Other direct team-level services Weekly engineering-wide Scrum of Scrums facilitated.
Internal metrics and continual improvement TPG has a strategy

(T113053)

Strategy and strategy process documented and shared
Management TPG managed this quarter.

TPG Offsite (T131399)

TPG uses work tracking in Q4. (T132402)

Organizational and cross-team initiatives Design across all verticals Develop shared understanding of design pain-points across all verticals and define plan to resolve pain-points
Product/Community communication & workflows Lightweight engagement with Technical Collaboration