Analytics/Roadmap/PlanningMeetings/AnalyticsReboot

Purpose edit

Rational Aim: To align analytics customers, stakeholders, and practitioners around the needs for Wikimedia Foundation to make better decisions through data

Experiential Aim: To demonstrate a collaborative, cross-functional model of how WMF staff can develop the vision of analytics

Participants edit

  • Anasuya Sengupta
  • Andrew Otto
  • Dan Andreescu
  • David Schoonover
  • Diederik Van Liere
  • Erik Moeller
  • Erik Zachte
  • Frank Schulenburg
  • Gayle Young
  • Howie Fung
  • Jessie Wild
  • Kraig Parkinson
  • Rob Lanphier
  • Stefan Petrea

Process edit

Proposed Agenda edit

  • Introduction
  • Understanding our Current Capability
    • Review Stakeholder Feedback
    • Showcase & Feedback of Analytics Offerings
    • Setting up an Innovation Pipeline
  • Defining an Operating Model for Analytics
  • Moving from Analytics Platform to Analytics-Enabled Leadership
    • Ecosystem Map
    • Value Proposition Canvas
    • Service Blueprinting
  • Making Change Happen
    • Four-Tables Contextualization
    • Action Mapping
    • Charrettes: Safe-Fail Experiments & Ritual Dissent
    • Resourcing Considerations

Actual Agenda edit

  • Introduction
  • Understanding our Current Capability
    • Review Stakeholder Feedback
    • Showcase & Feedback of Analytics Offerings
    • Setting up an Innovation Pipeline
  • Defining an Operating Model for Analytics
  • Moving from Analytics Platform to Analytics-Enabled Leadership
    • Ecosystem Map
    • Value Proposition Canvas
    • Service Blueprinting
  • Making Change Happen
    • Four-Tables Contextualization
    • Action Mapping
    • Charrettes: Safe-Fail Experiments & Ritual Dissent
    • Resourcing Considerations
    • Discuss Next Actions

Issues edit

  • Differences in opinion about how analytics works at WMF and how it compares to Analytics Lifecycle presented by Ken Collier.
  • Challenges learning the Operating Model framework as planned. Had to coach groups through how to use it.
  • Divergent thinking with respect to how to organize analytics. Could be due to previous issue.
  • Difficult to keep some remote team members engaged, in part due to A/V issues

Meeting Notes & Artifacts edit

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Product/Next Steps edit

  • Setup scheme for prioritization and scheduling of features.
    • Considering leveling capacity by stakeholder group (scheduling work along fixed sequence, fixed time)
    • Schedule day-to-day work based on classes of service to support day-to-day responsiveness
    • Review monthly
  • Setup routine for investigating opportunities to improve analytics capabilities
    • Identifying needs
    • Exploring potential solutions
    • Validating ideas with stakeholders and customers
  • Develop a value path toward initial base cluster and share widely with stakeholders
  • Follow up with analysts to elicit workflow of analytical model development and analysis
  • Work with individual stakeholder groups to determine upcoming analytics needs