+1 Welcome, Damon! On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 7:10 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > > > Re: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Template:Staff_and_contractors > > > > What's the timeline for re-organizing the current Engineering and Product > > Development group? End of 2014, the first quarter of 2015, sooner, later? > > Damon is in charge of the following areas as of today, and handover is > underway: > - Platform Engineering > - Features Engineering > - Language Engineering > - Mobile Engineering > - Technical Operations > - Team Practices Group > > I'll continue to be responsible for the following groups: > - Product Management > - User Experience > - Analytics > - Community Engagement > - Wikipedia Zero (minus the engineering part, which lives in Mobile > Engineering) > > These changes will be reflected on the staff page shortly. Needless to > say we are providing support in transitioning approvals, hiring > pipelines, and other day-to-day management responsibilities. > > As noted before, Analytics is a bit of an odd fit in either group, > since it includes both engineers and data analysts, and we'll continue > talking about what makes sense here, but it needs to be closely > aligned with product management which is why it's in my group at this > time. > > Any growing org structure needs some tweaking over time. There's been > a fair bit of internal discussion already about the best future org > structure for these internal groups in particular: > Platform/Features/Language/Mobile. There are some felt pain points in > the current division of engineering responsibilities through those > groupings (in particular, some of the silo effects that it creates). > Discussions about how to improve the org structure will continue under > Damon's leadership, and it'll be up to him to set the timetable for > any changes he wants to make. > > Erik > > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia <http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive> Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/People> Social Media Interaction Moderator | The Daily Prothom-Alo <http://www.prothom-alo.com> Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge Foundation Network <http://www.okfn.org> Treasurer | Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) <http://www.bdosn.org> Task Force Member | Mozilla Bangladesh <http://www.mozillabd.org> fb.com/nhasive | @nhasive <http://www.twitter.com/nhasive> | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
