Team Practices Group/Goals/FY2016Q3

The Team Practices Group (TPG) was dissolved in 2017.

FY2016Q3 (Jan - Mar 2016) Quarterly Goals and Milestones

Goal	Milestones	ETA	Dependency	Status
Goal 1 - STRENGTHEN Engineering teams can communicate their capacity for core vs new work (T122838) (multi-quarter)	Documented and agreed upon definition of ‘core work’ (T122839) (see this page) Agreed upon method for tracking data (T122841) Audience-facing product teams able to produce evidence-based data about the proportion of time spent on core vs. non-core work (T122842)	EoQ	Audience-facing product engineering teams Analytics engineering	N Not done
Goal 2 - FOCUS Team Practices Group decides on the team’s operating strategy. (multi-quarter) (T113053)	50% of tests against strategic possibilities executed (T122843)	EoQ	Boryana, product/engineering management, possibly others TBD through strategy definition process	Done
Goal 3 - FOCUS Maintain, improve, and refine KPIs (T122852)	Maintain minimum 4 out of 5 (Likert scale) on current top-level KPIs (T122845) Evaluate 2 possible new KPIs (T122846)	EoQ	All TPG-supported teams	Done

FY2016Q3 (Jan - Mar 2016) Essential Functions

Goal	Initiative	FY2016Q3 Milestone
Provide periodic external team support.	Evidence-Based Project Planning	Five teams use burnups. (T125583) See also Quarterly goals.
	Other	Research offsite to be facilitated 1st week of Feb Product group strategy facilitated this quarter. (T124085) WMF Strategy facilitated this quarter.
Provide ongoing external team support.	Provide embedded Practices support	5 teams Agile Coached this quarter: VE, Engagement Metrics, Discovery, Research & Data, Design Research. 3 teams Scrum Mastered this quarter: fr-tech, iOS, Android. 3 teams mentored in team practices: Analytics Engineering, Designers, OIT, Wikipedia Education Program/Dashboard
	Other direct team-level services	Weekly engineering-wide Scrum of Scrums facilitated. 3 mini iOS onsites facilitated.
Internal metrics and continual improvement	TPG has a strategy (T113053)	Strategy test plan defined. (T117104) See also Quarterly goals.
	Measure TPG Value	See also Quarterly goals.
	Management	TPG managed this quarter. Pilot Milestone-based tracking and burnup. (T119473)
TPG "Other" work in FY2016Q3 (T123145)