[teampractices] Team health check survey: your feedback wanted!

[Anna Stillwell]

First, I'm really happy to be seeing this happen at the team level. Review
of individuals is important but it often does not place them within the
context of the team, so it can be harder to identify systemic issues, and
then things get reduced to personal flaws... rather than skills.

I think this is very informative and also user friendly. The language is
normal (not that weird organizational speak that no one can really
understand). *I really like that.* It makes it funny too.

I'm also glad that open-source citizenry has made an appearance as a
category. Unless we are evaluating that and embedding that ethos in our
review, it's super easy to lose track of it.

Great work. I'm interested to see what you find out.
/a




On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Now that a few weeks have gone by, the Team Practices Group has
> synthesized all the feedback so far and made a second draft of the team
> health check survey
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Health_check_survey>.
>
> Please take a look and provide any further feedback - we will be taking
> feedback on this latest draft til midnight UTC of 5 September, 2014 so we
> can finalize the survey focus areas for the first iteration of the survey
> to be delivered to an initial batch of WMF engineering teams in the coming
> weeks. Pending their approval, we are planning to deliver the survey to
> teams currently engaged or soon engaging with the TPG - mobile web, mobile
> apps, mediawiki core, and analytics - by the end of this quarter.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> The Team Practices Group
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group> has begun drafting
>> a team health check survey
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Health_check_survey>.
>> *Your feedback on the survey overall as well as your help brainstorming
>> focus areas for the survey is greatly appreciated.*
>>
>> The survey is intended to help WMF engineering teams identify areas where
>> they should focus efforts for improvement and to track whether or not teams
>> are improving. It will be delivered at least quarterly and collaboratively
>> completed by each engineering team through a workshop facilitated by a
>> member of the Team Practices Group. Metrics derived from the quarterly
>> delivery of the survey will be used to determine the success of the Team
>> Practices Group in meeting its annual goal
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals#Team_Practices_Group>
>> .
>>
>> More details on mediawiki.org.
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Health_check_survey>
>> Please review, share your thoughts/feedback, and help us brainstorm
>> sensible focus areas for the survey - either in response to this thread or
>> on the talk page
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Team_Practices_Group/Health_check_survey>
>> .
>>
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>>
>
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Anna Stillwell
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