Interested in the Product Owner (PO) role? Low-commitment ways to gain experience

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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

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

Each activity provides you the change to gain PO experience at your own schedule while assisting product development address critical needs.

• 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 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 your library a sneak peak at upcoming functionality. 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 small step, then contact directly. 
2. Please inform the PO
   1. Chosen activity
   2. Time commitment and duration 
3. You and PO agree to the commitment.