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FOLIO is looking for Product Owners

Joining FOLIO as a product owner is a great way to make a big impact on the project.  You will:

  • Get involved in the FOLIO community
  • Build your network
  • Expand your analytical and communication skillset
  • Contribute to the development of a platform that IS changing libraries

  Interested? Please review the below list of long-term opportunities. If you would like more information, please contact, Lead FOLIO PO, Khalilah Gambrell

Long-term Projects and Opportunities: Product Owners Needed 

We are always looking for good POs for the following areas. Time commitment is a minimum of 6 months. 

PriorityNeedDescription

Required skills

Minimum - Time frame

Course Reserves app 
  • Triage bugs and refine backlog.
  • Document workarounds
  • Currently, there is no team assigned to the Course Reserves app so your primary objective will be to prioritize bugs that can be assigned to a team with capacity. 
  • Bugfest support
    • Write/revise test cases in Test rails
    • Triage user feedback
    • Prioritize bugs
  • Support the community's use of the Courses app
  • Likes conducting reference interviews 
  • Has used Course Reserves software (FOLIO or other software), or applied/defined Course Reserves workflows
  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 
  • Likes testing features 
5-8 hours a week

Circulation: Loans, Circulation rules and loan policies, Check-in, Check-out, Loan information on Item Details
  • Support circulation needs for checking items out, checking items in, recording information for troubleshooting and other resource access functions.
  • Primary objectives
    • Triage critical issues 
    • Knowledge transfer: Work with current PO(s) to document key functionality and workflows
    • Document workarounds 
    • Refine backlog
    • Per release - Refine one feature 
    • Will work with several POs responsible for various circulated functionality/workflows 
    • Will present requirements to a development team 
    • Bugfest support
      • Write/revise test cases in Test rails
      • Triage user feedback
      • Prioritize bugs
  • Support the community's use of FOLIO circulation functionality
  • Likes conducting reference interviews 
  • Great familiarity/expertise with circulation workflows 
  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 
  • Likes testing features 
10-15 hours a week 

Circulation: Fees/Fines

Current product owner will be leaving the project and we are looking for a person who wants to continue to support FOLIO's fees/fines capabilities.

  • Primary objectives
    • Triage critical issues 
    • Complete implementation of fees/fines features 
    • Knowledge transfer: Work with current PO(s) to document key functionality and workflows. Becomes Fees/Fines SME.
    • Document workarounds 
    • Refine backlog
    • Per release - Refine one feature
    • Work with several POs responsible for various circulated functionality/workflows 
    • Present requirements to a development team 
    • Bugfest support
      • Write/revise test cases in Test rails
      • Triage user feedback
      • Prioritize bugs
    • Support the community's use of FOLIO circulation functionality.
  • Likes conducting reference interviews 
  • Great familiarity/expertise with circulation workflows 
  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 
  • Likes testing features 
10-15 hours a week 

Item States
  • Primary objectives
    • Triage critical issues
    • Becomes Item States - SME
    • Refine backlog  
    • Document workarounds
    • Work with several POs responsible for functionality/workflows in circulation and metadata management
    • Present requirements to a development team
    • Bugfest support
      • Write/revise test cases in Test rails
      • Triage user feedback
      • Prioritize bugs
    • Support the community's use of item state functionality
  • Likes conducting reference interviews 
  • Great familiarity/expertise with circulation workflows. 
  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 
  • Likes testing features 
5-8 hours per week

Circulation: Requests app 

Looking for a person to manage the requests app and workflows. 

  • Primary objectives
    • Triage critical issues 
    • Learn about app and workflows from community members and POs familiar with the app
    • Document workarounds 
    • Refine backlog
    • Per release - Refine one feature 
    • Work with several POs responsible for various circulated functionality/workflows 
    • Present requirements to a development team 
    • Bugfest support
      • Write/revise test cases in Test rails
      • Triage user feedback
      • Prioritize bugs
    • Support the community's use of FOLIO circulation functionality
  • Likes conducting reference interviews 
  • Great familiarity/expertise with circulation workflows including integrations with discovery/opac systems
  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 
  • Likes testing features 
10-15 hours a week 

Circulation: Lost items 

We are looking for a product owner who can 

  • Primary objectives
    • Triage critical issues
    • Refine backlog  
    • Document workarounds  
    • Work with several POs responsible for various circulated functionality/workflows 
    • Present requirements to a development team 
    • Bugfest support
      • Write/revise test cases in Test rails
      • Triage user feedback
      • Prioritize bugs
    • Support the community's use of FOLIO circulation functionality
  • Likes conducting reference interviews 
  • Great familiarity/expertise with circulation workflows including integrations with discovery/opac systems
  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 
  • Likes testing features 
5-8 hours a week

Circulation: Patron/Item blocks

Current product owner will be leaving the project and we are looking for a person who wants to continue to support FOLIO's fees/fines capabilities.

  • Primary objectives
    • Triage critical issues 
    • Knowledge transfer: Work with current PO(s) to document key functionality and workflows. Becomes a SME. 
    • Document workarounds 
    • Refine backlog
    • Per release - Refine one feature 
    • Work with several POs responsible for various circulated functionality/workflows 
    • Present requirements to a development team 
    • Bugfest support
      • Write/revise test cases in Test rails
      • Triage user feedback
      • Prioritize bugs
    • Support the community's use of FOLIO circulation functionality
  • Likes conducting reference interviews 
  • Great familiarity/expertise with circulation workflows 
  • Good familiarity with discovery system/opac workflows 
  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 
  • Likes testing features 
10-15 hours a week 

Accessibility

Need a product owner who can lead efforts for POs/development team to

  • implement/think about accessibility 
  • organize accessibility testing
  • manage accessibility dashboard and backlog
  • write requirements / defects and present requirements to a development team(s)
  • lead effort to define greater shortcut keys 
  • advise teams regarding accessibility 
  • Likes conducting reference interviews 
  • Great familiarity with accessibility guidelines and best practices.
  • Great familiarity/experience implementing accessible features. 
  • Familiar writing accessibility testing scenarios/tasks
  • Can test features with web accessibility compliance tools and screenreaders
  • Enthusiastic in building an accessible FOLIO and staying current on changing guidelines. 
5-8 hours per week

Inventory Search Enhancements 

Need a product owner who can define inventory search requirements now that the app's search is powered by Elastic Search. 

  • Primary objectives
    • Triage critical issues 
    • Learn about current inventory search implementation and proposed development
    • Documentation  
    • Refine backlog
    • Per release - Refine one feature 
    • Work with several POs responsible for various cataloging functionality/workflows 
    • Present requirements to a development team(s)
    • Bugfest support
      • Help validate environment for testing 
      • Write/revise test cases in Test rails
      • Triage user feedback
      • Prioritize bugs
  • Likes conducting reference interviews 
  • Good familiarity in defining search requirements OR strong willingness to learn how to define search requirements
  • Bonus if you are familiar with Elasticsearch
  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 
  • Enthusiastic about search!!! 
10-12 hours a week 

Patron APIs for discovery systems

Need a person to

  • reviews current APIs used by discovery systems/opacs
  • is a SME for teams that develop or enhance circulation workflows to ensure e2e workflows are supported 
  • Documentation  
  • Refine backlog 
  • Triage bugs 
  • Per release - Refine one feature 
  • Work with several POs responsible for various circulated functionality/workflows 
  • Present requirements to a development team(s)
  • Bugfest support
    • Help validate environment for testing 
    • Write/revise test cases in Test rails
    • Triage user feedback
    • Prioritize bugs
  • Likes conducting reference interviews 
  • Great familiarity/expertise with circulation workflows 
  • Good familiarity with discovery system/opac workflows 
  • Good familiarity with APIs OR strong willingness to learn.  
  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 
  • Likes testing features 
8-10 hours a week 


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