World Service EPM handover

1. budget

1.1. monthly global management meetings where you are called to account for budget

1.2. Delegate to: ? Run yourself?

1.3. Specials input - Andy L is reporting monthly to 'team leaders' meeting

1.4. Apps input - Alex P needs buying into reporting here.

2. topcat > CPS migration

2.1. big old programme

2.2. Delegate: ??? Chris R doesn't think you need a programme manager, I do

2.3. fortnightly programme board

2.4. Up to you, but strongly recommend that you don't migrate to Cream first then over to responsive - 2 x bumps for audience, and adding extra organisation time

2.5. Outliers

2.5.1. Learning English - Mike Puxley on the case

2.5.2. UK China - teaching english to Chinese people.

2.5.3. /partners is also now an outlier, Mike is on the case there too

3. team management

3.1. I run monthly unit meetings for Product, Design, and Editorial staff

3.2. There is also a weekly update meeting 'team leaders' - project update with stakeholders, issues ironed out.

3.3. Delegate to: ??? WS Dev Editor, Santosh for now? Jenni and Jo both attend

4. Staff

4.1. Specific issue with Jordi Texido - paid for by capital funds this year, vital member of Responsive Rollout team

4.2. Will take you through staff in briefing

5. language services

5.1. split into hubs, overall managed by Lilianne Landor.

5.2. Dima used to take away this complexity but has left

5.3. I get wheeled out from time to time to talk topcat> CPS, Resp Des etc

5.4. I will brief you on which fonts/ services are difficult and what that implies

5.4.1. (biggest problems in Burmese, Tamil, Russian)

6. other risks and problems

6.1. WS contracts for search, external links

6.1.1. Delegate to: ?

6.2. stakeholder management - I go to fortnightly meeting with James M.

6.2.1. delegate to: ??

6.3. MVT - could Jo G/ Ian P (???) possibly take this on for the whole business?

6.4. SEARCH! who should do this?

7. Biz dev

7.1. over half WS traffic comes from syndication to partner sites

7.2. Numerous and complicated deals to syndicate WS content, with pictures, without pictures, with links, without links, av only, with av etc etc

7.3. your stakeholders - Sarah Jones, Cass Adamson

7.4. Delegate to: ??? Noor AlShahib?

8. circumvention

8.1. requires detailed verbal briefing from me to you - it's complex

8.2. Delegate to: Jenni Barker?

8.3. Reprocurement needed NOW, Jenni is on it

8.3.1. 3 possible vendors - Psiphon, Ultra Surf, Tor.

8.4. Quarterly meeting in WS on blocking issues (ie satellite jamming as well, what level of publicity we give to our efforts

9. product management

9.1. BDD style scrums with feature huddles, bug prioritisation

9.2. differences from English: mostly around feature phone, a handful of WS bespoke modules

9.3. Run yourself? Lewis?

9.4. weekly/ fortnightly 'DDR' review meetings with stakeholders - who will do these?

10. projects

10.1. Responsive

10.1.1. 2 teams Purple and Sunburst Orange - mostly working together at this stage and possibly will continue to

10.1.1.1. Welsh? Alba? Irish?

10.1.2. rollout plan on the wiki

10.1.3. Russian user testing - you should go

10.1.3.1. it may be useful to have a WS old hand there, even one who is shortly to leave the BBC

10.2. Everything else

10.2.1. very limited capacity here but some work slated for next year