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Interested in the Product Owner (PO) role? Low-commitment ways to gain experience

Interested in the Product Owner (PO) role? Low-commitment ways to gain experience

Aug 30, 2022

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The Product Owner (PO) has a pivotal role in FOLIO's product development lifecycle. This person:

  • Ensures features/workflows needed by the community are developed

  • Serves as a customer advocate for feature/workflow development 

  • Translates business level requirements from the community to technical level requirements for development teams

Interested in the PO role BUT not ready for a long-term commitment? Check out these activities. 

Each activity provides a chance for you to gain PO experience at your own schedule while assisting product owners in key areas. 

Conduct market intelligence
Research requirements' questions
Peer review requirements
Test drive new functionality
Review existing functionality 
Review bugs
Review functionality with SIG 
Write test cases 
Organize user acceptance testing

How much time should you allocate for any of these activities? You decide. We just need to know...

Which activity and for which FOLIO area/workflow
How much time you can commit and duration 

Benefits: Why you should take that small leap into the world of Product Ownership/Product Management?

Contribute to FOLIO's product development
Acquire a set of skills that are essential to your career development 
Gain troubleshooting skills
Preview new functionality to your library. Be more prepared for upgrades and migration. 
Explore a new way to use your probing and problem solving skills 
Observe some of the day to day activities of a PO without a long-term commitment 
Understand FOLIO product and release management processes

Yes, I am interested. Sign me up 

  1. Contact FOLIO Lead PO (@Khalilah Gambrell) or if you know the PO that you want to take the small step with then contact him/her/they directly. 

  2. Please inform the PO

    1. Chosen activity

    2. Time commitment and duration 

  3. You and PO agree to the commitment.