Open discussions on any topics/questions you may want to ask/raise/check with Acquisitions SIG fellow members
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Quesnalia bugfest continues thru this Friday, April 12
Michigan State E-resource cataloging workflow survey post in Acq SIG Slack channel on April 3. Appreciates you or your colleagues' participation in the survey (runs thru April 19)
Next scheduled meeting, this Friday, April 12, at 9 am Eastern
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Open discussions on any topics/questions you may want to ask/raise/check with Acquisitions SIG fellow members
How do we want to use the time when product owners aren't available?
Sara: Her local group has had discussions on not understanding what some fields or actions or business logic is used… what is this field, having a discussion how others are using it…. This can help the group and also in helping with documentation. Help fill a discussion on workflows…. we need a place that is accessible to everyone to see what the intended action was supposed to be, or how others are using it… Example, what does the volume field do that is at the bottom of the POL?
Discussion on documenting what fields are used and if no one is using them… maybe they should be removed. Or are they not being used because no one knows how to use it?
Dung-Lan - Maybe each of us can look at our acquisitions workflows and jot down what fields we want to learn more about. Are there some feilds that many instutions are unclear on?
Aaron: Fields we use/don't use…. different places use different fields. In Templates, you can suppress fields from being displayed. Orders has a lot of scrolling, a lot of clicking, a big mix of required and optional fields….
Sara: Wants to learn about fields that up to now has not used, because maybe someone is using it in a way that she would love to know about. Documentation is not there so if someone is using it, share it with the group…. That volume field in the POL was added in 2018, a community wide conversation about fields that started to go somewhere, but ended up not going anywhere…
Kimberly Pamplin: Knowing what fields transmit to other apps is good. Ex subscription to and from field will go to the invoice. Also stumbled across the fact that the line description also goes to the invoice.
Discussion on lets create a page of topics that we would like to discuss when product owners are not available to meet. Call it workshop topics or Lab….
Sara: Maybe one meeting, open up a PO and go through it field by field discussing it’s use…. We are the ‘subject matter experts’ SME - lets discuss it and document it..
