Product Analytics/Offsites/2018-11-Onsite

See the posted travel manifests for hotel & flight info.

Agenda edit

Days 1 & 2 will be away from the office, Day 3 will be mostly in-office.

Day 1
Activity	Approx. start time	Duration
Breakfast	9AM	15 mins
Offsite Goals	9:15AM	15 mins
Introductions	9:30AM	30 mins	Show and/or tell something you’re passionate about (hobby, pet, some piece of media, passion project, etc.)
Values	10AM	1.5 hrs (incl. 15 minute break)	Outcome 1: Rough Sketch of Team’s Values
Vision	11:30AM	30 mins	Outcome 2: Rough Sketch of Team’s Vision
Lunch	12PM	1 hr
Vision (cont'd)	1PM	1.5 hrs
Break	1:30PM	15 mins
Assessment	2:45PM	2 hrs 15 min	Outcome 3: Outline of requirements for accomplishing vision
Dinner	6PM	2 hrs

Overview
Wikimedia Values:
- We strive for excellence.
- We welcome and cherish our differences.
- We are in this together.
- We engage in civil discourse.
- We are inspired.
15 minutes generating values
30 minutes clustering
- Identifying themes for team’s core values
- Should not be in conflict with Wikimedia values
Takeaways (15-30 minutes)

Wikimedia Mission:
- The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.
Audiences Product Principles:
- Community-centric: enabling welcoming, vibrant communities where new and experienced people come together to create, share, and discover knowledge through collaboration.
- Usable for all: promoting equity through usable, useful, and inclusive tools and services that meet the needs of a diversity of people and machines across user experiences.
- Intentionally transparent: demystifying the knowledge creation process and encourage participation by giving everyone visibility into how information is created, verified, and improved over time.
- Extensible and sustainable: creating the conditions for people and machines to use, reuse, and build on top of our platform, extending free knowledge and supporting a sustainable future for Wikimedia.
What are we working toward as a team?
- Should not be in conflict with Audiences Product Principles
- Helps us think top-down rather than bottom-up

What do we have in place and what is missing to accomplish our vision?

Discussions:

Day 2
Activity	Approx. start time	Duration
Breakfast	9AM	15 mins
Recap	9:15AM	30 mins
Process & Structure	9:45AM	2.5 hrs (includes 15 minute break)	Outcome 4: Proposal of process changes/projects based on Outcome 3
Lunch	12:15PM	1 hr
Hackathon	1:15PM	4 hrs	Outcome 5: Dashboards & Data Dives

Examples we could tackle:

Day 3
Activity	Approx. start time	Duration
Sync w/ Audiences Directors	9AM	1 hr	Share outcomes 1-4
Results sharing	10AM	1.5 hrs	informal presentations of outcome 5
Break	11:30AM	15 mins
Back2Business: Part I	11:45AM	30 min
Lunch	12:15PM	1.5 hrs
Back2Business: Part II	1:45PM	45 min
(Travel time)	2:30PM	1.5 hrs
Escape Room	4PM	2 hrs

The following is a rough draft of values we've identified as essential to our team, and which we will dedicate ourselves to:

We deliver quantitatively-based user insights that enable good decision making and which are:

Our primary client is Audiences