Meeting Notes/2016-01-25 Core Fraction

Present: Wes, TPG - Arthur & Max.

=Old business= Next steps from last time:
 * 1) Joel to write up status of core / etc discussion from today (+ notes from today) DONE
 * 2) TPG+Wes to review write-up DONE
 * 3) Joel to send email DONE
 * 4) TPG+Wes to have "socialization" meeting to plan meetings with [affected] people [e.g. directors] 1-1 as needed to get buy-in or objections
 * 5) Grace: who are "people"? Kevin: people directly affected by core fraction decisions
 * 6) David: there are people who ... and people who are not responding
 * 7) Grace: Who are these people? ^
 * 8) David: will identify at already-scheduled meeting Weds Jan 27

=New business= Check quarterly goal and milestones and identify new Epics/Tasks. The scope of work for this project is currently defined in three different places
 * 1) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122838
 * 2) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Engineering_teams_can_communicate_their_capacity_for_core_vs_new_work
 * 3) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Goals/FY2016Q3

These three different definitions don't exactly match. Joel/Kevin to clean up, including removing the temporary detailed work breakdown in the mediawiki page once its contents are covered in the Phab tickets.

Milestones

 * 1) A documented and agreed upon definition of ‘core work’ exists https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122839
 * 2) In progress (see Old Business). Socialization meeting this week will move this forward.
 * 3) Product-facing teams have agreed upon method for tracking core/strategic work https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122841
 * 4) What exactly is the amount of tracking we are doing this quarter?
 * 5) see next goal - 1 week of testing this quarter (Q3)
 * 6) No further work needed on this goal this week
 * 7) Audience-facing product teams able to produce evidence-based data about the proportion of time spent on core vs. non-core work https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122842
 * 8) When is anyone going to actually want to see tracking data?
 * 9) Execs might want actual data from teams covering work starting July 1 2016, which they would report in October. So we would want to do pilots earlier (e.g. Apr-Jun). (and of course our goal calls for the first pilot by the end of March 2016)
 * 10) We should plan larger, deeper tests with more teams in Q4 to support that.
 * 11) No further work needed on this goal this week.

=Next Steps This Week=
 * 1) proceed with socialization meeting
 * 2) clean up Phab/Wiki pages for tracking this project