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The Product Owner (PO) has a pivotal role in FOLIO's product development lifecycle. This person:

  • Ensures features/workflows needed by the community are developed
  • Serves as a customer advocate for feature/workflow development 
  • Translates business level requirements from the community to technical level requirements for development teams

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Interested in the PO role BUT not ready for a long-term commitment? Check out these activities. 

Each activity provides a chance for you the change to gain PO experience at your own schedule while assisting product development address critical needs.owners in key areas. 

  •  Conduct market intelligence
  •  Research requirements' questions
  •  Peer review requirements
  •  Test drive new functionality
  •  Review existing functionality 
  •  Review bugs
  •  Review functionality with SIG 
  •  Write test cases 
  •  Organize user acceptance testing

How much time should you allocate for any of these activities? You decide. We just need to know...

  •  Which activity and for which FOLIO area/workflow
  •  How much time you can commit and duration 

Benefits: Why you should take that small leap into the world of Product Ownership/Product Management?

  •  Contribute to FOLIO's product development
  •  Acquire a set of skills that are essential to your career development 
  •  Gain troubleshooting skills
  •  Give Preview new functionality to your library a sneak peak at upcoming functionality. More . Be more prepared for upgrades and migration. 
  •  Explore a new way to use your probing and problem solving skills 
  •  Observe some of the day to day activities of a PO without a long-term commitment 
  •  Understand FOLIO product and release management processes

Yes, I am interested. Sign me up 

  1. Contact FOLIO Lead PO (Khalilah Gambrell) or if you know the PO that you want to take this the small step , with then contact him/her/they directly. 
  2. Please inform the PO
    1. Chosen activity
    2. Time commitment and duration 
  3. You and PO agree to the commitment.