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

WOLFcon De-brief

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• 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.