Translations:Wikimedia Engineering/June 2017 changes/17/en

The biggest change is that all of our work in fiscal year 2017-2018 will be structured and reported in programs instead of teams (you can see how this works in our proposed 2017-2018 Annual Plan). This will help us focus on the collective impact we want to make, rather than limiting ourselves to the way our organization is structured. These programs will be enabled by the platforms (MediaWiki, Fundraising Tech, Search, Wikimedia Cloud Services, APIs, ORES, and Analytics) that the Technology department builds and maintains, and they will be delivered by teams that provide critical services (Operations, Performance, Security, Release Engineering, and Research). Distinguishing the work of the Technology department into platforms and services will also allow us to treat platforms as products, with accountable product managers and defined roadmaps.