Product Analytics/Offsites/2018-11-Onsite

See the posted travel manifests for hotel & flight info.

Agenda
Days 1 & 2 will be away from the office, Day 3 will be mostly in-office.

Values

 * Overview
 * Wikimedia Values:
 * We strive for excellence.
 * We welcome and cherish our differences.
 * We are in this together.
 * We engage in civil discourse.
 * We are inspired.
 * 15 minutes generating values
 * 30 minutes clustering
 * Identifying themes for team’s core values
 * Should not be in conflict with Wikimedia values
 * Takeaways (15-30 minutes)

Vision

 * Wikimedia Mission:
 * The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.
 * Audiences Product Principles:
 * Community-centric: enabling welcoming, vibrant communities where new and experienced people come together to create, share, and discover knowledge through collaboration.
 * Usable for all: promoting equity through usable, useful, and inclusive tools and services that meet the needs of a diversity of people and machines across user experiences.
 * Intentionally transparent: demystifying the knowledge creation process and encourage participation by giving everyone visibility into how information is created, verified, and improved over time.
 * Extensible and sustainable: creating the conditions for people and machines to use, reuse, and build on top of our platform, extending free knowledge and supporting a sustainable future for Wikimedia.
 * What are we working toward as a team?
 * Should not be in conflict with Audiences Product Principles
 * Helps us think top-down rather than bottom-up

Assessment
What do we have in place and what is missing to accomplish our vision?

Discussions:


 * New hire(s)
 * Team Structure
 * Requests, prioritization, capacity planning
 * QCI
 * Ad hoc product questions
 * Training (others), knowledge transfer, presentations
 * Infrastructure & instrumentation
 * Dependencies/collaboration

Process & Structure
Examples we could tackle:


 * Team reorg
 * Hiring
 * Formalizing our prioritization framework
 * Refining guidelines for requests
 * Establishing & announcing office hours
 * Reviewing & rethinking our meetings
 * Reusable code, recommended workflows

Outcome 1: Values
The following is a rough draft of values we've identified as essential to our team, and which we will dedicate ourselves to:


 * Scientific rigor
 * Integrity & ethics
 * Privacy
 * Respect
 * Impact & insights
 * Inclusivity & seek diversity
 * Curious, inspired, and innovative
 * Transparency & sharing
 * Nurturing, educating, and empowering
 * Growth

Outcome 2: Vision
We deliver quantitatively-based user insights that enable good decision making and which are:


 * impact oriented
 * accessible & digestible
 * reliable & valid
 * ethically sourced & applied

Our primary client is Audiences