From awjr's email:

Homework
Please review the following docs:

• VE process documentation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/2015_Process_Review
• A draft attempt at documenting product development process at WMF https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Product_Development/Product_Development_Process/Draft&action=history (by Howie Fung, former director of product)

To prepare for our first conversation, think about what's working well/what isn't/what is missing about the current VE process. Try thinking about it a level higher, in the abstract, and think about what the delta is between that and Howie's document, and think about what might be universally applicable across engineering.

Additional reading
Some additional documents to help fuel your thinking:

• Day-to-day process for Reading vertical https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1JjyOTHXDO3ks11CRxjCFpP1nDvoT4H9leTX3_upo1sI/edit
• "Service Level Understandings" between VE/CL https://docs.google.com/document/d/1clvbtVOpW3VzzEWB-rwiS35Urrj-CJ29IBL3_hBz7rk/edit#heading=h.eighufygage
• "Process survey https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Processes_Survey" of some of the WMF engineering teams (with links to more details)