Hi Greg,
The process improvement effort is not explicitly tied in with quarterly
goals. If we come up with specific recommendations that require enough
effort to register on a quarterly scale, or that influence the output of
the team that much, they could be inputs to goal-setting.
Team Practices Group also does the quarterly Team Health Check survey,
which is also not part of quarterly goals. I think that process
improvement in general is probably better handled separately from goals, to
avoid creating any incentives to bias measurement stats, consciously or
unconsciously.
Joel
*Joel Aufrecht*
Team Practices Group
Wikimedia Foundation
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
<quote name="Neil P. Quinn"
date="2015-06-05" time="16:56:07 -0700">
Hello everybody!
For the past couple months, Joel Aufrecht and I have been working on a
project to document and improve the VisualEditor team's processes; we
just published a draft of our report
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/2015_Process_Review> on
mediawiki.org. If you're interested, please read it over and, of
course, shout at us on the talk page if we wrote anything stupid.
Neil et al, this is great! Thanks for the very informative read, even as
someone who works closely with the VE team on a semi-daily basis (at
least!). I think it is great that the time and energy was devoted to
developing this report.
The plan at [0] suggests that this is a one-time process with a
conclusion (which is good), thus it isn't tied in, explicitly, with the
quarterly goal planning process, correct?
Best,
Greg
[0] <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/2015_Team_Process_Review#Plans
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