Team Practices Group/Goals/FY2016Q1

The Team Practices Group (TPG) was dissolved in 2017.
Objective Key result Dependency ETA Status

Focus: Support the prioritization of current and upcoming work across the WMF, and balancing it against available resourcing.

All current and projected projects across the WMF listed, prioritized, and estimated on the Master Project List (MPL)

All current and projected projects across Engineering and Community Engagement listed, prioritized, and estimated on the MPL

All departments

  • Engineering
  • Community Engagement

2015-07-30

2015-09-30

Yes Done

All current projects with a priority outside of the WMF’s resource capacity will have a “sunset” or “stall” plan

2015-08-30

N Deferred

Strengthen: Establish TPG vision and strategy for FY16

Publish document outlining TPG’s high-level vision and strategy for FY16

2015-09-30

N Postponed for Q2

Strengthen: Identify organizational pain points for software engineering and supporting teams; foster self-awareness of team health to support continual improvement

Deliver Team Health Check survey to the following teams:

  • Readership web team
  • Release engineering
  • Language engineering
  • Community Liaisons
  • Visual Editor
  • Research team
  • Tech-ops
  • Analytics engineering
  • Collaboration team
  • Readership apps team
  • FR-tech
  • Parsing
  • Readership web team
  • Release engineering
  • Language engineering
  • Community Liaisons
  • Visual Editor
  • Research team
  • Tech-ops
  • Analytics engineering
  • Collaboration team
  • Readership apps team
  • FR-tech
  • Parsing

2015-30-07

Yes Done

Internally publish overall results, identified trends, and recommendations for action from Team Health Check survey

2015-30-08

Yes Done

Present results, trends, results/status of initiatives resulting from previous Team Health Checks, and recommended actions from Team Health Check survey to management and key stakeholders

Engineering management

2015-30-08

Yes Done