2023-02-01 Product Council P&R Working Group Meeting Notes

Previous action items check-in

 2023-01-25 P&R Meeting notes

Review the Charge: FOLIO Prioritization and Roadmap Working Group

• "Manage" is broad - maybe "implement"

  • Decide on the tool

  • three parts:

    • SIGs

    • Institutional voting

    • Internal development teams and their priorities (see EBSCO presentation about setting separate priorities and separate roadmaps)

  • Need to understand how ARLEF could influence priorities

  • Before we can really recommend changes and updates to the process, need to implement

• Define these terms:

  • Definition of the roadmap

  • What do we mean by community resources vs. external tools

  • Figure out how teams combine different types of ranking to determine priorities and set Roadmap

  • Use definitions from Tri-Council subgroup

• Themes and subthemes: would like the SIG prioritization process to help define these and name these in ways that make sense.

• Questions on roadmap:

  • What is the function of the time access? Hoping the timeframe can be influenced by the prioritization process

  • Want the roadmap to both project and reflect progress

  • We need to return to the prioritization process so that individuals can understand how their priorities are fitting into a development plan

  • Would like to have Roadmap influence what features are selected for development for a particular release

  • Can we have features/desired functionality shared in the roadmap but not be time-bound? It's not reasonable to say a particular feature will be built in 2024.

  • Maybe we need to focus on Visualizations for Priorities more than the roadmap. We have control over priorities, but not over what gets developed

    • What levels do we prioritize? Big buckets, little buckets? Both?

  • Need to think about distinct audiences for the roadmap - public/marketing, setting development for a dev team, etc.

Prioritization tools review

Evaluation of different tools

Link to the recording where a subgroup of prio wg discussed different tools

 Exisiting Roadmap review

 FOLIO Roadmap

Next Week

Jesse has a schedule conflict

Action items: Jesse will try to turn into a list of goals and outcomes. In Project management, we'd then flesh those out for to-do items

Next week; select the tool for prioritization