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Contact Khalilah Gambrell for more information about these meetings/channels.  If you are a Product Owner please do sign up for these. 

Resources

What is a Product Owner?

  • The FOLIO software development site is available at dev.folio.org
  • FOLIO uses discuss.folio.org for asynchronous messaging. The Discuss site is a web forum with categories, topics, and posts. Use Discuss for asking questions and recording discussions that require more than a few sentences. 
  • FOLIO uses wiki.folio.org to store documents with some permanence. FOLIO Special Interest Groups (SIGs), which are dedicated to specific functional areas or interests within FOLIO, have a space on the wiki. 
  • Join the SIG meeting that is appropriate to the area where you are working: Community Calendars
  • FOLIO Slack channels for real-time chat are available at folio-project.slack.com. Anyone may request to join the FOLIO Slack channels using an automated web form
  • The FOLIO Google Drive has working documents for various project groups including most SIGs and the Product Council.  There is a Product Owners sub-folder for our documents.  Contact Anne L. Highsmith to gain access to the FOLIO Google Drive.  Tell her you are a new FOLIO Product Owner.
  • FOLIO JIRA is the project's issue (bug, story etc.) tracker.  Please sign up and then ask /wiki/spaces/~kgambrell/overview or Jakub Skoczen for the ability to edit issues. 

UX Design Requests

FOLIO UX designs are stored and accessible from a variety of different tools. This directory on FOLIO's google drive has more up-to-date mockups.  Other mockups are found on the wiki. When working with a UX/UI designer it is suggested that the Product Owner:

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    •  A feature is what an institution reviews to prioritize its needs for go-live and for tracking functionality planned in future releases. It is important that features are
      • Clearly defined and written with the customer in mind. 
      • Describe the problem or need the features will address
      • Describe the benefit(s) of implementing the feature
      • Describe any risk(s) of not implementing the feature 
      • Describe any known dependencies 
      • Use the Template = UXPROD features as a guide 
      • Revise your features as needed so that institutions have an accurate understanding of what will be delivered for a release. A feature set to Closed are included in Release Notes. Example - Kiwi (R3 2021) Release Notes.
    • Use of Labels 
      • Technical debt feature should have the label NFR assigned
      • To allow a SIG to see which features are applicable to the SIG, consider adding the label 

      • SIGLabel
        Usersusermanagement
        Resource Accessresourceaccess
        Resource Managementresourcemanagement
        Electronic resource managementerm
        Metadata Managementmetadatamanagement
        Acquisitionsacquisitions
        Data importdata-import
        Cross Platformcrossplatform


    • The feature kanban board is here
    • A simple list of features is here
    • Example features:

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The FOLIO wiki has a page in which manual testers and community members can report observations and issues which they aren't sure are actually defects.  The page is Observations and Comments from Testers/Not Tickets page should be watched by all POs.  If an observation has been added in relation to one of your apps, please review and follow-up as needed. 

Additional Information