Wikimedia Product/2016 Product Team Strategy/Outline of Product Team Strategic Planning process
Attempt to Reconcile these milestones with External timing constraints
edit- 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
Assumed: We can test and revise the strategy further in 2016, including integrating with other Strategies.
Milestones
edit- Participants agree on process to be used - DONE prior to Jan 22 Meeting.
- Proposed: "Playing to Win"
- Team has consensus on strategic problem
- Everyone has offered a version of the problem. DONE Jan 22 meeting and weeks following.
- All versions are reconciled
- Strategic choice is framed.
- Strategic Possibilities Defined
- Adequately large population of possibilities considered
- Likely possibilities well-defined and non-overlapping
- Initial Possibilities pruned
- One possibilities reviewed in detail
- Full cascade drafted
- Specify conditions that would have to be true for each possibility to be a great strategy.
- Identify barriers to choosing each possibility.
- Design tests to assess the most worrisome barriers and assign responsibility for testing.
- Full cascade drafted
- All possibilities detailed in full cascades
- Cascades reviewed and possibilities pruned
- Pruning criteria defined
- Final (skeptic) review of cascades and barriers
- Share progress with stakeholders
- Design tests to assess the most worrisome barriers and assign responsibility for testing.
- Finalize test plan.
- Run tests.
- Discuss Test Results
- Make Strategic Choice
- Refine Cascade
- The Great Unveiling