What does "productize" mean in the context of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Growth_Quarterly_Review_(February_2014)... ?
Where did the idea that services need to be turned into products come from?
Where is the "learning patterns library" mentioned at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_re... ?
If there are 34 learning patterns at present, how many are expected going forward?
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:35 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
What does "productize" mean in the context of
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Growth_Quarterly_Review_(February_2014)... ?
Sorry for the jargon. We try to avoid tech industry terminology in public communication but sometimes when we publish an internal document it slips out.
Wiktionary defines productize as "make something a commericial product".[1] Productization is defined as "The act of modifying something, such as a concept or a tool internal to an organization, to make it suitable as a commercial product."[2]
Remove the commercial part of that, which implies selling, and it basically applies. In software development and in the Wikimedia context, it basically means to take something that is an experimental concept and make it a permanent part of the site for users -- whether that's readers, editors or donors depends on the software in question.
The word product is used not to strictly clarify that something is not a service. On the Web, the line between products and services is decidedly fuzzy, at least when you talk to people who work in the tech industry. In reality people when people say "a product" they really just mean "a thing people use or buy".
1. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/productize 2. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/productization
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:35 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
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Where is the "learning patterns library" mentioned at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_re... ?
At https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Library - which was actually linked at the first occurrence of the therm. There is a blog post with a fuller explanation here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/19/learning-patterns-new-way-share-import...
In general, please be aware that these quarterly review minutes are live notes from internal meetings which are provided, only slightly edited, on an as-is basis for transparency reasons - rather than purposefully crafted as an accessible documentation about a topic. As the note on top says: "Consider referring to the presentation slides, blog posts, press releases and other official material". I am certainly trying to add explanatory links and include parenthetical remarks as I go along, such as I did in the above case (and it's great to know that you and other people are actually reading them and can benefit from such links, that makes it worthwhile adding them). But it's a lightweight editorial effort. If the goal was to ensure that those minutes - and the slides - are as accessible as say, a blog post about the topic or a documentation page on Meta, it would require much more time.
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