Meeting Notes/2016-01-11 Core Fraction

In attendance
TPG minus Grace, plus Wes

Agenda

 * 1) Meeting refresher
 * 2) Goal refresher
 * 3) "TPG Goal 1 - STRENGTHEN: Engineering teams can communicate their capacity for core vs new work (multi-quarter)"
 * 4) Notes Wes gathered from recent discussions with stakeholders
 * 5) Why are we splitting core and strategic work?
 * 6) Understand our costs, grow and maintain our impact.  bring more clarity to our budgeting process.  plan and effectively allocate our revenue, mitigate unforeseen risks
 * 7) Nothing currently regarding IRS, charitable scoring, grants, etc.
 * 8) "Core" has multiple meanings, and reducing effort on "core" (because it gets conflated with "maintenance") may trouble some people
 * 9) There are some existing concerns that these numbers might cause devs to get shifted to different teams mid-quarter
 * 10) Are we trying to minimize "core" in favor of "strategic"? (A: optimize, not minimize)
 * 11) Can we add the concept of value in addition to cost, so that teams that do 100% maintenance aren't only "cost centers"?
 * 12) That's probably what "impact" is intended to cover
 * 13) Definitions of Core and Strategic are still in progress by C team.  Current target may be Feb 3.  Core work should be more consistent year to year so teams can plan it earlier in the cycle; Strategic work planning then gets finalized later in the cycle.
 * 14) Should we offer a summary of this discussion, and link to these notes, in the current email threads?  No, wait another week, nothing concrete yet.
 * 15) Locking down the requirements for work
 * 16) Requirements for this effort as of 11 Jan 2016
 * 17) Teams can collect per-team core/strategic fraction data with inconsistent definitions for per-team purposes
 * 18) WMF can report aggregate, consistent core/strategy fraction data for external reporting purposes (3-4 use cases, e.g., IRS, grants, charity ratings - from fundraising)
 * 19) Teams can report core/strategic fraction data as part of WMF capacity planning (annual, quarterly, strategic)
 * 20) did not discuss.