Dear Wikimedians,
We are excited to have you participate in an important Community Engagement regarding our strategic approaches. 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.
Throughout 2015 the Foundation has been exploring how to prioritize its work to best support the movement's goals, set forth, but not yet reached, in the 2010-15 strategic plan.
The strategic approaches presented here are based on our vision, strategy consultations in 2010 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/2010-2015 and 2015 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Strategy/Community_consultation, research on external impacts, and input from staff and a few small community think groups on key challenges and potential solutions.
Timeline: These are our target dates for this process.
-
January 11: Put up pages for translation (done) -
January 18: Launch of community consultation on key questions -
February 15: Close of consultation -
By February 26: Release synthesis of consultation -
By March 4: Publish first draft strategy for comment
We appreciate your time and efforts to help guide the Foundation in its work to support the movement.
Warm regards,
Lila
Many thanks, Lila - this is a good step in our joint conceptualizing, where we want to go. I'm glad we've made it this year, in spite of a tight schedule.
dj
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Lila Tretikov lila@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Wikimedians,
We are excited to have you participate in an important Community Engagement regarding our strategic approaches. 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.
Throughout 2015 the Foundation has been exploring how to prioritize its work to best support the movement's goals, set forth, but not yet reached, in the 2010-15 strategic plan.
The strategic approaches presented here are based on our vision, strategy consultations in 2010 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/2010-2015 and 2015 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Strategy/Community_consultation, research on external impacts, and input from staff and a few small community think groups on key challenges and potential solutions.
Timeline: These are our target dates for this process.
January 11: Put up pages for translation (done)
January 18: Launch of community consultation on key questions
February 15: Close of consultation
By February 26: Release synthesis of consultation
By March 4: Publish first draft strategy for comment
We appreciate your time and efforts to help guide the Foundation in its work to support the movement.
Warm regards,
Lila _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Hi Lila,
A few questions:
1. What is the URL for the 2016 consultation?
2. 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?
3. Could you clarify, in the 2016-2017 AP plan timeline [1], what the difference is between "core work" and "strategic work"?
4. What methodology is WMF using for developing the 3-year forward revenue forecast, and is WMF incorporating into this forecast any new potential varieties of revenue?
I will likely have further questions as we go through these processes.
Thanks! Pine
[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ys1JLDhpT93BrduEuA4jE3_RYOYHqakiyvR8LASg...
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Lila Tretikov lila@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Wikimedians,
We are excited to have you participate in an important Community Engagement regarding our strategic approaches. 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.
Throughout 2015 the Foundation has been exploring how to prioritize its work to best support the movement's goals, set forth, but not yet reached, in the 2010-15 strategic plan.
The strategic approaches presented here are based on our vision, strategy consultations in 2010 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/2010-2015 and 2015 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Strategy/Community_consultation, research on external impacts, and input from staff and a few small community think groups on key challenges and potential solutions.
Timeline: These are our target dates for this process.
January 11: Put up pages for translation (done)
January 18: Launch of community consultation on key questions
February 15: Close of consultation
By February 26: Release synthesis of consultation
By March 4: Publish first draft strategy for comment
We appreciate your time and efforts to help guide the Foundation in its work to support the movement.
Warm regards,
Lila _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Hi,
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 3:23 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
- What is the URL for the 2016 consultation?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2016_Strategy is the main URL (currently redirects to the consultation page).
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
Thanks Luis. I am trying to wrap my mind around the strategy process and how it interfaces with the many moving pieces in the Wikimedia universe.
A comment that I've heard from staff is that strategies and priorities seem to shift frequently. This results in confusion and lack of clarity. Once there is a coherent strategy that emerges from this process, will it remain set for the next 12-24 months? (Even 12 months seems rather short. Perhaps we could be looking at longer-term horizons and higher aspirations, with clearly defined intermediate SMART goals.)
Thanks, Pine
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
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
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:43 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Luis. I am trying to wrap my mind around the strategy process and how it interfaces with the many moving pieces in the Wikimedia universe.
As are we all. I know we've talked about putting some of the timeline pieces together in a FAQ, but honestly not sure if that has happened yet.
A comment that I've heard from staff is that strategies and priorities seem to shift frequently. This results in confusion and lack of clarity. Once there is a coherent strategy that emerges from this process, will it remain set for the next 12-24 months? (Even 12 months seems rather short. Perhaps we could be looking at longer-term horizons and higher aspirations, with clearly defined intermediate SMART goals.)
I've had those concerns myself :) There's a real tension between being nimble and reactive (which we need to be) and having ability to do longer-term planning. We've been talking about this as an 18-24 month strategy; but inevitably that will be different for different parts of the org - some parts of product may find it outdated almost as soon as we publish it (based on the earliest experiments they run as a result of it), while some parts of the community strategy could conceivably last 3-4 years (given the inevitably longer time scales for social/cultural work).
Sorry that's not more firm/specific, but inevitably some flexibility is required here.
Luis
Thanks, Pine
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
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
-- Luis Villa Sr. Director of Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation *Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely
share
in the sum of all knowledge.* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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