VisualEditor/2015 Team Process Review

April 6–17

 * Onboarding and Orientation for Joel and Neil

April 20–24

 * Interview with 3 members of the VE team (as it existed pre-reorg) for micro-retrospectives.
 * multiple ad-hoc interviews with James and Trevor to start understanding the VE process (and WMF processes)
 * asking various people about how Tasks work for VE
 * start a list of VE stakeholders Stakeholders
 * build a list of standard questions for interviews

April 27–May 1

 * Interview 7 more members of VE team
 * Interview 6 more stakeholders
 * Extend list of stakeholders/interview candidates (total of 35 names)

Finish Information gathering

 * interview the rest of the VE team
 * interview some stakeholders
 * complete documents

Plan for change

 * team decides how to decide what to change, seeking a balance between broad voice, transparency, and decisiveness
 * what processes to change to better serve the team and/or stakeholders
 * what processes and values to preserve
 * Define requested changes to tools (Phab, etc) to support process changes
 * make timeline for changes

Reference material

 * "State of the team" report
 * top strengths
 * top concerns
 * from team
 * from external stakeholders
 * Process diagram showing how VE team works now
 * Implicit State Machine diagram for Editing Phab Tasks
 * process flow for VE team within WMF
 * Process Menu with feedback from team
 * Suggested progress changes
 * Previous WMF Process Review (theoretical model for all of WMF, not specific to VE team)

Working materials
Interview notes (etherpad)

Goals

 * 1) Joel and Neil learning the team's processes
 * 2) Joel collecting information prerequisite to suggesting any changes as TPG detailee to VE
 * 3) Documenting how VE team works because it may be a model for other Editing teams and other teams in WMF
 * 4) Provide VE team retrospection on progress up to point of re-org and VE release
 * 5) Meet requests from execs for better forecasting and visibility

Timing
Information Collection: April

Make changes: May?