Wikimedia Product/Program Management

Who is the Product Programme Management Team and what do we strive to do here at WMF
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Our team comprises of....

Our Services that we offer are....

Our team purpose--why do we exist?
We design and run impactful, thoughtful programs that align with our mission and our identity as a techno-social organization.

(We want to turn this into an ambitious, “in 10 years we will have empowered the movement through our awesome powers of program management” statement, but aren’t sure how yet.)

How do we facilitate Product Programme Delivery Excellence
For Programmes & Projects to be successful we aim to bring the following expertise and practices to a Programme team so that we are able to deliver on the objectives we set out to achieve. These are some of the processes, disciplines and frameworks we tailor per programme so that we have clear, concise and transparent means of planning, tracking progress & execution, facilitating Issue Management and being able to pivot in an Agile way while keeping all stakeholders engaged and informed in key decision making and in providing the right level of direction to steer the programme correctly.

Cross Functional Team Collaboration
Scoping, Planning across various Product Feature teams and Technology teams to ensure synergy and sequence in what needs to be delivered in line with Strategy

Inter-dependency Management

Release planning

Community Engagement- Implementation and Change Management

Our Team's WoW (Way of Work)
Processes we recommend to support delivery across Programmes, projects, Features, Releases, Tech & Non Tech delivery

Tools we use to get things done,

Cadence /Rhythm for Reporting, Financial Management & Stakeholder Engagements, communication

Governance, Best Practices

Our key strengths, skills where we add value and help teams achieve great outcomes

Wikimedia Product/Technical Program Management