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(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Pine W
<wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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?
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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Sr. Director of Community Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation
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