Analytics/Roadmap/PlanningMeetings/2013 02 27 Reflection

Reflecting on the Meeting for Reflecting on our Weekly Status

 * dsc volunteers to help put together a stakeholder feedback survey; ez will help construct a community feedback survey as well
 * ez: we should make sure our process collects feedback from the editor and research communities

== Review of Improvement Idea Inbox ==

Cynefin categories reminder:
 * Simple: obvious to all
 * Complicated: requires analysis or some other form of investigation
 * Complex: can only be perceived in retrospect, but not in advance
 * Chaotic: no relationship between cause and effect at systems level

#1: Improve business solutioning elements of analytics delivery
https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/analytics/cards/1


 * Many elements of delivering on this:
 * visioning with an eye toward integrated solution delivery
 * planning for incremental releases
 * gathering concrete requirements, communicating them clearly and explicitly, and managing expections
 * Vote: do
 * Domain:
 * Diederik: complex
 * Kraig: complex
 * EZachte: complicated / complex
 * otto: complex
 * dsc: complex
 * dan: complicated

#3: Improve discipline of work prioritization & scheduling
https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/analytics/cards/3


 * dsc: Is this focused on improving the view of feature-work, or task-work? (This also relates to the management tools question.)
 * K: primarily organizing/prioritizing, clarifying, and scheduling feature work (as seen from stakeholders)
 * ez: re: prioritization. We have production bugs that have gone unfixed. this can't just be about new fewture development!
 * K: we'll talk more about this with the work service levels card later
 * Vote: do
 * Domain:
 * dan: complicated
 * dsc: complicated
 * otto: ditto
 * drdee: complicated

#4: Introduce Lean management practices for leadership roles
https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/analytics/cards/4


 * Not 6 sigma oriented (which focuses on routine processes)
 * drdee: let's not experiment with too many things at once.
 * dsc: totally agreed. finite bandwidth -- code must be written.
 * Vote: do
 * Domain:
 * dsc: complicated