Wikimedia Search Platform/Experimentation Time

Great products require both a structured well-curated backlog that everyone agrees on, and unstructured individual-led efforts. This policy is meant to capture the latter for the Search Platform team.

• During each two week period, any team member (engineer, SRE, product, manager, etc.) can spend 1 day (of their choosing) on whatever they choose, as long as it benefits the team, organization, or movement.
• Team members are encouraged, but are not required, to coordinate their experimentation day with their peers (Friday is popular).
• Please mark the day in your calendar so that you reserve that block of time.
• No Manager or Product Manager approval is necessary to select work, but coordination with the relevant Product Manager will be required to get it into production.