Product Analytics/Offsites/2018-11-Onsite
See the posted travel manifests for hotel & flight info.
Agenda
[edit]Days 1 & 2 will be away from the office, Day 3 will be mostly in-office.
Tuesday, November 27
[edit]| Activity | Approx. start time | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | 9AM | 15 mins | |
| Offsite Goals | 9:15AM | 15 mins | |
| Introductions | 9:30AM | 30 mins | Show and/or tell something you’re passionate about (hobby, pet, some piece of media, passion project, etc.) |
| Values | 10AM | 1.5 hrs (incl. 15 minute break) | Outcome 1: Rough Sketch of Team’s Values |
| Vision | 11:30AM | 30 mins | Outcome 2: Rough Sketch of Team’s Vision |
| Lunch | 12PM | 1 hr | |
| Vision (cont'd) | 1PM | 1.5 hrs | |
| Break | 1:30PM | 15 mins | |
| Assessment | 2:45PM | 2 hrs 15 min | Outcome 3: Outline of requirements for accomplishing vision |
| Dinner | 6PM | 2 hrs |
Values
[edit]- Overview
- Wikimedia Values:
- We strive for excellence.
- We welcome and cherish our differences.
- We are in this together.
- We engage in civil discourse.
- We are inspired.
- 15 minutes generating values
- 30 minutes clustering
- Identifying themes for team’s core values
- Should not be in conflict with Wikimedia values
- Takeaways (15-30 minutes)
Vision
[edit]- Wikimedia Mission:
- The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.
- Audiences Product Principles:
- Community-centric: enabling welcoming, vibrant communities where new and experienced people come together to create, share, and discover knowledge through collaboration.
- Usable for all: promoting equity through usable, useful, and inclusive tools and services that meet the needs of a diversity of people and machines across user experiences.
- Intentionally transparent: demystifying the knowledge creation process and encourage participation by giving everyone visibility into how information is created, verified, and improved over time.
- Extensible and sustainable: creating the conditions for people and machines to use, reuse, and build on top of our platform, extending free knowledge and supporting a sustainable future for Wikimedia.
- What are we working toward as a team?
- Should not be in conflict with Audiences Product Principles
- Helps us think top-down rather than bottom-up
Assessment
[edit]What do we have in place and what is missing to accomplish our vision?
Discussions:
- New hire(s)
- Team Structure
- Requests, prioritization, capacity planning
- QCI
- Ad hoc product questions
- Training (others), knowledge transfer, presentations
- Infrastructure & instrumentation
- Dependencies/collaboration
Wednesday, November 28
[edit]| Activity | Approx. start time | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | 9AM | 15 mins | |
| Recap | 9:15AM | 30 mins | |
| Process & Structure | 9:45AM | 2.5 hrs (includes 15 minute break) | Outcome 4: Proposal of process changes/projects based on Outcome 3 |
| Lunch | 12:15PM | 1 hr | |
| Hackathon | 1:15PM | 4 hrs | Outcome 5: Dashboards & Data Dives |
Process & Structure
[edit]Examples we could tackle:
- Team reorg
- Hiring
- Formalizing our prioritization framework
- Refining guidelines for requests
- Establishing & announcing office hours
- Reviewing & rethinking our meetings
- Reusable code, recommended workflows
Thursday, November 29
[edit]| Activity | Approx. start time | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sync w/ Audiences Directors | 9AM | 1 hr | Share outcomes 1-4 |
| Results sharing | 10AM | 1.5 hrs | informal presentations of outcome 5 |
| Break | 11:30AM | 15 mins | |
| Back2Business: Part I | 11:45AM | 30 min | |
| Lunch | 12:15PM | 1.5 hrs | |
| Back2Business: Part II | 1:45PM | 45 min | |
| (Travel time) | 2:30PM | 1.5 hrs | |
| Escape Room | 4PM | 2 hrs |
Notes & Outcomes
[edit]Outcome 1: Values
[edit]The following is a rough draft of values we've identified as essential to our team, and which we will dedicate ourselves to:
- Scientific rigor
- Integrity & ethics
- Privacy
- Respect
- Impact & insights
- Inclusivity & seek diversity
- Curious, inspired, and innovative
- Transparency & sharing
- Nurturing, educating, and empowering
- Growth
Outcome 2: Vision
[edit]We deliver quantitatively-based user insights that enable good decision making and which are:
- impact oriented
- accessible & digestible
- reliable & valid
- ethically sourced & applied
Our primary client is Audiences