[...] Are there any upcoming plans for systematic
study or development of WMF-to-public communications processes from
Audiences and Technology?
There are a couple existing ways to learn about new developments, though.
There is Tech News (focused on immediate user-facing changes), quarterly
department checkins (focused on the big picture and progress of annual plan
goals and other large projects), most teams have a monthly or sometimes
weekly newsletter and/or on-wiki updates page, there are some regular
showcases (research and more recently language), and people write blog
posts about larger or more interesting developments on Phabricator and the
WMF blog. (The discoverability of all of these things could certainly be
improved.) And if you are sufficiently interested in a specific team, team
Phabricator boards are public.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 11:29 AM Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019, 9:31 AM Dan Garry (Deskana)
<djgwiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 20:25, Pine W
<wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to request that every Audiences and
Technology team submit
highlights of recent and upcoming activities for inclusion in every set
of
> SoS notes, even if no one personally attends the SoS meeting from a
> particular team, so that readers of these notes can keep better track
of
> what is happening in the Audiences and
Technology departments and so
that
readers
can make adjustments to our own plans as needed.
Scrum of scrums meetings are intended to be a venue for development teams
to surface upcoming blockers and dependencies on other teams, so that
teams
can better work together and not block each
other. Scrum of scrums
meetings
are not intended to be a forum for general
announcements about activities
by end-users. These are very different use cases with different target
audiences.
I understand your concerns about visibility of the actions inside the
Wikimedia Foundation. It's certainly difficult to see things from the
outside. That said, taking a meeting with a well-defined purpose and
objective, and expanding that objective to add an additional, quite
different use case, is not good practice; doing so may cause people to
disengage or lose focus, thereby meaning the original objective of the
meeting is no longer met.
Some reading you might find useful:
-
https://www.agilealliance.org/glossary/scrum-of-scrums/
-
https://www.scruminc.com/scrum-of-scrums/
Dan
Hi Dan,
That is helpful. Perhaps the info I am seeking would be better communicated
in a different way. I am reluctant to request a new communications process
that would require nontrivial effort to start and to maintain if I am the
only one who is interested. Are there any upcoming plans for systematic
study or development of WMF-to-public communications processes from
Audiences and Technology? If so, perhaps I could have a conversation with
whomever will work on that communications effort.
Pine
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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