Analytics/Roadmap/PlanningMeetings/2013 02 27 Reflection

Reflecting on the Meeting for Reflecting on our Weekly Status

• dsc volunteers to help put together a stakeholder feedback survey; ez will help construct a community feedback survey as well
• ez: we should make sure our process collects feedback from the editor and research communities

Review of Improvement Idea Inbox

Cynefin categories reminder:

• Simple: obvious to all
• Complicated: requires analysis or some other form of investigation
• Complex: can only be perceived in retrospect, but not in advance
• Chaotic: no relationship between cause and effect at systems level

#1: Improve business solutioning elements of analytics delivery

https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/analytics/cards/1

• Many elements of delivering on this:
  • visioning with an eye toward integrated solution delivery
  • planning for incremental releases
  • gathering concrete requirements, communicating them clearly and explicitly, and managing expections
• Vote: do
• Domain:
  • Diederik: complex
  • Kraig: complex
  • EZachte: complicated / complex
  • otto: complex
  • dsc: complex
  • dan: complicated

#3: Improve discipline of work prioritization & scheduling

https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/analytics/cards/3

• dsc: Is this focused on improving the view of feature-work, or task-work? (This also relates to the management tools question.)
  • K: primarily organizing/prioritizing, clarifying, and scheduling feature work (as seen from stakeholders)
• ez: re: prioritization. We have production bugs that have gone unfixed. this can't just be about new fewture development!
  • K: we'll talk more about this with the work service levels card later
• Vote: do
• Domain:
  • dan: complicated
  • dsc: complicated
  • otto: ditto
  • drdee: complicated

#4: Introduce Lean management practices for leadership roles

https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/analytics/cards/4

• Not 6 sigma oriented (which focuses on routine processes)
• drdee: let's not experiment with too many things at once.
• dsc: totally agreed. finite bandwidth -- code must be written.
• Vote: do
• Domain:
  • dsc: complicated