Core Platform Team/Goals/FY1920/Q1
Each quarter, members of the team can add goals below that support their development plans and the team. Everyone should have at least one of each type of goal they are working on at a time. You can have more than two if you like, but keep in mind that it is better to have fewer goals you can complete rather than a lot of goals that you might "half finish".
While not required, team members may use 10% time to work on these goals, or to put it another way, the output of your 10% can be these goals.
Definitions[edit]
Professional Development Goal
This is a goal that is designed to help you build towards a larger goal of your career or professional growth. This can be about learning a new skill, helping you grow into a new role in the organization, or stretching yourself in ways such as public communication.
Team Goal
A goal that is designed to help you directly improve daily work for our team and teammates. As a team we are trying to focus on knowledge sharing, and this will always be a good basis for a team goal. You can also choose goals that are built around fixing/clarifying/documenting team processes or figuring out how to help others achieve their development goals (helps someone learn a new technical skill)
Writing a good goal[edit]
You should try to write your goals using the SMART goal philosophy:
- Specific - you know what the goal is
- Measurable - you can tell when you have finished
- Achievable - you can actually get it done
- Relevant - you understand how it ties into your bigger goals (like your development plan, our knowledge sharing intuitive, our team mission, etcâŚ)
- Time-bound - you set a time for you to be done in order to to keep yourself accountable
Sharing back[edit]
In addition to the above, you should always think about how you will share back with the team. This may be implicit for some goals (like giving a presentation), but for others you should think about how you will take what you learn and did and turn it into something for the team.
Goals[edit]
| Who | Type | Goal | How will you share this back? | ETA | Status |
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| Will | Team Goal | Capture statistics related to Clinic Duty to determine impact and feedforward into future iterations. | Will report back on metrics, outcomes and retros post each rotation. Will publish on Wiki. | August |  In progress
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| Will | Team Goal | UBN and Reactive work is triaged and response time is tracked | Will report back on metrics around turned around time for these tasks. Will also look into surveying impacted teams. Will publish on Wiki. | August | In progress
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| Will | Professional Development | Investigate available facilitation courses to use training stipend toward | Will create a list of potential courses | September | In progress
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| Will | Professional Development | Fix a bug in MW as part of Clinic Duty | Will have merged a fix. | September | In progress
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| Eric | Team Goal | Structured logging best practices/team standardization | Document on-wiki; Seek comments (CPT email) | September | In progress
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| Eric | Professional Goal | Attend Debconf | Email(?) | July |  Â Done
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| Petr | Team Goal | Help kick off the learning sharing by getting to 'intern' for Daniel or in any other way | Aug-Sep | In progress
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| Petr | Professional Goal | Figure out which professional conference I wanna go to more. | In progress
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| Brad | Team Goal | Share some knowledge: 1:1s, with the goal that Corey and I get positive feedback from the people I share with. Hopefully also a presentation or blog post. | This goal is sharing. But also possibly a retrospective email of some sort. | End of quarter-ish (more of a checkpoint than completion) | In progress
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| Brad | Professional Goal | Do the knowledge sharing above. | Same as above. | End of quarter-ish (more of a checkpoint than completion) | In progress
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| Daniel | Team Goal | Mentor Clara while she is writing her first MediaWiki extension. | September | ||
| Daniel | Professional Goal | Write my first dockerized node.js web service. | Make docker images and write node.js applications. | September | In progress
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| Tim | Team Goal | Share knowledge by assisting team members who are less familiar with MediaWiki, by communicating with them in Phabricator and Gerrit. | Team meetings | September | In progress
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| Tim | Professional Goal | Stay up to date with PHP by reviewing the latest PHP RFCs and git commits | Email report | September | In progress
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| Marko | Team Goal | ||||
| Marko | Professional Goal | ||||
| Holger | Team Goal | Participate and contribute in Code Health Group. | Share insights with team via summary emails | Q1 | In progress
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| Holger | Professional Goal | Finish LFS258 Kubernetes Fundamentals on | Provide feedback to anyone interested whether I think the course is worthwhile | July/Aug | In progress
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| Bill | Team Goal | ||||
| Bill | Professional Goal | ||||
| Cindy | Team Goal | Create two new visualizations of metrics measuring our work (e.g. Task Creation and Closure Report) | Visualizations will be available on https://wikifarm.wmflabs.org/cpt. | EOQ | In progress
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| Cindy | Professional Goal | Attend SMWCon and present on iconograhy. | Presentation and video will be available after the conference. | September | In progress
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| Kate | Team Goal | ||||
| Kate | Professional Goal | ||||
| Clara | Team Goal | Structured logging best practices/team standardization w/ Eric | Document on-wiki | September | In progress
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| Clara | Professional Goal | Take 1-2 CS classes | If worthwhile document learning | On-going | In progress
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| Corey | Team Goal | Document our pipeline and responsibilities in Mural. This will include enough clarity of responsibilities so that people know their roles in different parts of the pipeline (my target is at least at the "level" of meetings). | Publish on Wiki (or link to from Wiki), Review with the team in our team meeting | August | In progress
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| Corey | Professional Goal | ||||
| Evan | Team Goal | ||||
| Evan | Professional Goal |