[Wikimedia-l] Office hour inside out (program evaluation)

[ENWP Pine]

Tom,

Thanks for the good email.

It's important to learn from mistakes, but admitting mistakes does not absolve someone from accountability. 
When people are being paid to do something right or to achieve a certain outcome, and that doesn't happen 
or it happens late, it's sometimes a very good and appropriate thing to consider replacing them for the sake
of the organization and the program.

In the case of IEP, the consultant said that firing people would have been "premature". I'm not sure
that I would have reached the same conclusion, and I think if I had been on WMF's board at the time that 
this report was released, I might have had things to say about holding individual employees accountable.
But in the here and now, I am mostly interested in making sure that lessons from this program are deeply 
embedded into the institutional memory of WMF throughout the organization and on a long-term basis. 

Pine