Wikimedia Product/2016 Product Team Strategy/Outline of Product Team Strategic Planning process

Attempt to Reconcile these milestones with External timing constraints
Assumed: We can test and revise the strategy further in 2016, including integrating with other Strategies.
 * We want to have picked a strategy by end of March meeting (March 8).
 * Therefore, we need to go into the March meeting with strategies fully fleshed out and all testing complete.
 * Therefore, can only do guerilla tests, via homework after Feb 16 meeting.
 * Therefore, the February 16 meeting has to conclude with mostly complete strategies, and tests.
 * Therefore, the February 16 meeting has to start with the strategic problem Done and strategic possibilities already fully brainstormed.
 * Therefore, we need to decide on the strategic problem by early next week (Feb 8 or 9) in order to have a week to brainstorm Strategic Possibilities.
 * Therefore we need to shrink our list of candidate problems this week and probably meet next week to settle on one.
 * Also, testing can only include
 * "gut" checks, i.e., expert knowledge and experience of participants
 * small guerilla tests in late Feb

Milestones

 * 1) Participants agree on process to be used - DONE prior to Jan 22 Meeting.
 * 2) Proposed: "Playing to Win"
 * 3) Team has consensus on strategic problem
 * 4) Everyone has offered a version of the problem.  DONE Jan 22 meeting and weeks following.
 * 5) All versions are reconciled
 * 6) Strategic choice is framed.
 * 7) Strategic Possibilities Defined
 * 8) Adequately large population of possibilities considered
 * 9) Likely possibilities well-defined and non-overlapping
 * 10) Initial Possibilities pruned
 * 11) One possibilities reviewed in detail
 * 12) Full cascade drafted
 * 13) Specify conditions that would have to be true for each possibility to be a great strategy.
 * 14) Identify barriers to choosing each possibility.
 * 15) Design tests to assess the most worrisome barriers and assign responsibility for testing.
 * 16) All possibilities detailed in full cascades
 * 17) Cascades reviewed and possibilities pruned
 * 18) Pruning criteria defined
 * 19) Final (skeptic) review of cascades and barriers
 * 20) Share progress with stakeholders
 * 21) Design tests to assess the most worrisome barriers and assign responsibility for testing.
 * 22) Finalize test plan.
 * 23) Run tests.
 * 24) Discuss Test Results
 * 25) Make Strategic Choice
 * 26) Refine Cascade
 * 27) The Great Unveiling