On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
- You wrote, "This is a major step to help us prioritize the work of the
Foundation beginning in July 2016 and running for the next 12 to 24 months thereafter into a strategic plan." It seems that there will be some overlap in the development of the 2016-2017 Annual Plan, and that the completion of the strategic plan process will come too late to significantly influence the AP until after the AP is already being executed. Can you share with us which principles are being used to guide the development of the 2016-2017 Annual Plan which this document [1] is scheduled to be published for community review on March 31, 2016?
We mentioned this briefly in the FAQ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Strategy/FAQ#Why_this_process.3F, but let me elaborate here:
"We also need to finalize the Foundation’s strategy quickly, so that we can meet our 2016 Annual Plan deadlines and align our team and department strategies with the overall strategy."
In other words, we really are waiting on the results of the public discussion before making our biggest annual plan choices. :) This is part of why the process is somewhat rushed; if we planned to use *other* principles, we could have had a multi-month process, but we really do want to use the outcome of this process to help guide the annual plan, so we do have to make it a bit tighter than we might otherwise have liked.
We're splitting things up into "core" and "strategic" to help make this process fit together better: that will allow us to do initial planning on issues we expect will not be affected by strategy (e.g., "keep servers on") while waiting for the outcome of the public discussion.
(For those who are curious for more details, I also addressed this somewhat in my metrics meeting talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpZOx1Mzmuk&feature=youtu.be&t=19m34s last week, and the question https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpZOx1Mzmuk&feature=youtu.be&t=58m41s at the end of it.)
Hope that helps answer that question- Luis