Talk:Wikimedia Engineering/2014-15 Goals/Q4

WMF Top priority proposals
Top priority deliverables can be proposed by anyone, and the 3 top priority deliverables will be decided upon by WMF's Executive Director (Lila), VP of Engineering (Damon), and VP of Product (Erik), based on input and feedback from product and engineering. As in the past, the ‘top priority’ process serves a few purposes:
 * To identify high-impact work, or work which requires high internal visibility
 * To clearly communicate our commitments as an organization internally and externally
 * To help ensure we have the right people and enough people working on the top priority deliverables to be successful
 * To help guide all of us in our day-to-day decision making and prioritization

Timeline

 * Top priority proposals due by COB 10 March, 2015 (anyone)
 * Discuss proposals 11 March, 2015 (Proposal owners, product and engineering management)
 * First draft top priority deliverables finalized 13 March, 2015 (Damon, Erik)

Guidelines
Top priorities identify clear, singular deliverables we are committed to (“Progressive rollout of VisualEditor as default editing environment on English Wikipedia”). They typically draw from multiple teams. We select for work that is strategically important to propel Wikimedia forward, but we will sometimes include a priority that is more operational/tactical if it requires a high level of internal dependencies and benefits from the internal and external visibility (the recent migration of our bug tracking / PM tooling is an example). We will aim for no more than three top priorities each quarter.

If you’d like to propose a top priority deliverable, please do so below by COB 10 March, 2015, and include the following:
 * 1) The thing to be delivered
 * 2) Success criteria which are specific, measurable, assignable, realistic, and achievable within the quarter
 * 3) An explanation of why this is important: what problem it solves, who it serves, what value it provides, how it aligns with the WMF strategy/mission
 * 4) Resourcing requirements and team dependencies