Team Practices Group/Health check survey

Survey goal
The team health check survey is intended to quantitatively measure qualitative aspects of working on a WMF engineering team. The survey will be used to inform targeted areas of improvement for individual teams, measure improvements in team health from quarter to quarter, and provide a barometer for team health across WMF engineering. Health of all teams, as measured by this survey, should be transparent and visible on a continuous basis.

Survey focus areas
This is a brainstorm of potential survey focus areas. Ultimately, we aim to get this list down to 10 focus areas, and will iteratively refine the focus areas as we repeatedly go through the survey process with the engineering teams.

Timeline to launch

 * Post draft documents to mediawiki.org by 11 August 2014
 * Finalize documents for launch by 31 August 2014
 * Begin collecting data as early as 1 September 2014 to set baselines at the end of Q1 FY2014-2015, which will help inform team improvement efforts through Q2
 * Inspect and adapt the process quarterly thereafter

Implementation details
At least once per quarter, teams will collaboratively respond to the survey in a ‘health check workshop’, facilitated by a member of the Team Practices Group. Implementation details of the workshop are up to the facilitator.

Each area of the survey will be evaluated by teams on a 3-point scale of ‘crappy’, ‘meh’, or ‘awesome’. If there are areas on the survey a team doesn’t care about, they can be skipped. Teams can add areas that they feel are missing from the survey. The survey will evolve with the collective needs/perspectives of the teams through quarterly evaluation by Team Practices Group members.

Open questions
See talk page