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

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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.