Wikimedia Product/Inclusive Product Development

Background
The Product Development Diversity and Inclusion Working Group is a multifunctional, multi-department group formed in an effort to align WMF’s strategic vision with tactical day-to-day practice. It was formed with the high-level objective of crafting a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive product development practice.

Founding members of the working group include Ana Chang, Manager of Design Strategy; Angie Muigai, Lead Product Manager; Carol Dunn, VP of Product; Erika Bjune, VP of Engineering Technology; Jazmin Tanner, Senior Product Manager; Morten Warncke-Wang, Staff Data Scientist; and Margeigh Novotny, VP of Product Design & Strategy.

Methodology
Following best-practices, in August 2021 the Product Development Diversity and Inclusion Working Group conducted cross-functional, collaborative interviews with 15 teams across the Product and Technology departments to establish a baseline. The Working Group surfaced the processes and standards already in place; including how teams make decisions, how teams consider the users for which they build, where and how inclusive development practices are present, and power dynamics within teams. From these interviews, the Product Development Diversity and Inclusion Working Group identified areas of improvements, as well as existing solutions to share across teams. The goal was and continues to be to provide support and structure to the work the Product and Technology teams are doing, identify product development principles building on prior work, and iterate and refine the product development process.

Following these interviews, the Product Development Diversity and Inclusion Working Group summarized its learnings in the DEI Research Summary document and developed a V1 framework of Product Development Best Practices. Interested teams were then identified to implement the V1 framework as part of a beta run and provide feedback in order to update and continue to refine the framework.

How to follow along
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Artifacts
Things that have been created by the group such as presentations, links to other pages we should create like annotated bibliographies, and videos of the team presenting

Updates
This is where we will provide bi-monthly updates