Talk:Technical decision making/Technical Decision-Making Process Retrospective and Consultation plan

Why "retro"?
Ironically, if the goal is to bring in as many contributors as possible, etc., use of jargon like "retro" might be a mistake. I know it's short for "retrospective", but beyond that I had never heard of this term being used in a business/management context. I looked it up, and apparently it's an Agile management term, used to refer to discussions about just-completed tasks - like a "post-mortem" but shorter-term, maybe. I'm not even sure if that concept applies here - obviously, discussions about what worked and didn't work in the past are relevant, but that's not the only thing that's relevant. Why not just call it a "discussion", or something along those lines? Yaron Koren (talk) 18:31, 31 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I changed the one instance of "retro" on that page to "retrospective". We could probably come up with a couple sentences explaining what "retrospective" refers to, for people who are not familiar with the term. KHarlan (WMF) (talk) 18:38, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

It would also help to reduce the use of corporate jargon and style, starting from the off-putting Title Case, which makes this look like a non-inclusive space and process. Nemo 18:21, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Roles
There are two separate lists of roles, both naming someone with "executive ownership", but with a different description of the role and a different name. Are the two things compatible?

It's not clear to me who's responsible for digging up the reasons and objectives the current process was set up for, in order to assess whether they were achieved and whether there was an improvement compared to the status quo ante (i.e. the Requests for comment process and the ArchCom/TechCom as we knew it in 2014/2017/2020). Nemo 18:19, 3 April 2023 (UTC)