2023-08-30 Product Council P&R Working Group Meeting Notes

Date

30 Aug 2023

Time

Item

Who

Notes

WOLFcon De-brief

All

Maybe if later in conference, we would have had tougher or deeper questions
Possible format for future session: overview roadmap, then team roadmaps - with representatives from stakeholder teams. Possible with "work we have done" then roadmap plans.
Do we want prioritization? Do the roadmaps from the teams cover this area? Funded vs non-funded work? implemented libraries vs those not yet implemented? Should have some process, particularly for already implemented libraries and non-funded work. Gaps for libraries with little influence over service providers, self-hosted.
How to communicate needs to dev teams/PO/SIGs, so priorities can be expressed and openly discussed.
Define a primary way of determining requirements? For a predictable way to voice needs.
Information/guidelines for influencing priorities, spec'ing requirements, communicating roadmap plans

Other relevant Roadmap/Prioritization

Architectural roadmap (platform/apps/etc...) - do we have a role in surfacing information about this? The work will impact most or all feature development for some time frame. Perhaps we have a role in communicating impact on feature roadmap.

Upcoming P&R work

Publishing the Roadmap - post slides as a PDF to Roadmap page? Turn previous roadmap page into a "historic" version. Show the 4 top level view slides on page, link to pdf of all slide, link to dashboards. Explore deeper dive by development teams as FOLIO Forum or elsewhere - as "future session" above.
Prioritization Process(es) - next meeting - discuss next steps
Ongoing updates - two meetings from now - define process for updates to roadmap, dashboards, and how to ensure current P&R groups isn't a lifetime appointment
Critical Service Patch process - as dashboards? Oleksii maintains one for release management group. Something that helps the Release Management Group make decisions and/or helps community see if/when their critical issues being addressed. Oleksii and Khalilah are probably the closest to the process.