Product Owners: Available positions

Product Owners: Available positions

FOLIO is looking for Product Owners

Joining FOLIO as a product owner is a great way to make a big impact on the project.  You will:

  • Get involved in the FOLIO community

  • Build your network

  • Expand your analytical and communication skillset

  • Contribute to the development of a platform that IS changing libraries

  Interested? Please review the below list of long-term opportunities. If you would like more information, please contact, Lead FOLIO PO, @Khalilah Gambrell

Long-term Projects and Opportunities: Product Owners Needed 

We are always looking for good POs for the following areas. Time commitment is a minimum of 6 months. 

Priority

Need

Description

Required skills

Minimum - Time frame

Priority

Need

Description

Required skills

Minimum - Time frame

 

Course Reserves app 

  • Triage bugs and refine backlog.

  • Document workarounds

  • Currently, there is no team assigned to the Course Reserves app so your primary objective will be to prioritize bugs that can be assigned to a team with capacity. 

  • Bugfest support

    • Write/revise test cases in Test rails

    • Triage user feedback

    • Prioritize bugs

  • Support the community's use of the Courses app

  • Likes conducting reference interviews 

  • Has used Course Reserves software (FOLIO or other software), or applied/defined Course Reserves workflows

  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 

  • Likes testing features 

5-8 hours a week

 

Circulation: Loans, Circulation rules and loan policies, Check-in, Check-out, Loan information on Item Details

  • Support circulation needs for checking items out, checking items in, recording information for troubleshooting and other resource access functions.

  • Primary objectives

    • Triage critical issues 

    • Knowledge transfer: Work with current PO(s) to document key functionality and workflows

    • Document workarounds 

    • Refine backlog

    • Per release - Refine one feature 

    • Will work with several POs responsible for various circulated functionality/workflows 

    • Will present requirements to a development team 

    • Bugfest support

      • Write/revise test cases in Test rails

      • Triage user feedback

      • Prioritize bugs

  • Support the community's use of FOLIO circulation functionality

  • Likes conducting reference interviews 

  • Great familiarity/expertise with circulation workflows 

  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 

  • Likes testing features 

10-15 hours a week 

 

Circulation: Fees/Fines

Current product owner will be leaving the project and we are looking for a person who wants to continue to support FOLIO's fees/fines capabilities.

  • Primary objectives

    • Triage critical issues 

    • Complete implementation of fees/fines features 

    • Knowledge transfer: Work with current PO(s) to document key functionality and workflows. Becomes Fees/Fines SME.

    • Document workarounds 

    • Refine backlog

    • Per release - Refine one feature

    • Work with several POs responsible for various circulated functionality/workflows 

    • Present requirements to a development team 

    • Bugfest support

      • Write/revise test cases in Test rails

      • Triage user feedback

      • Prioritize bugs

    • Support the community's use of FOLIO circulation functionality.

  • Likes conducting reference interviews 

  • Great familiarity/expertise with circulation workflows 

  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 

  • Likes testing features 

10-15 hours a week 

 

Item States

  • Primary objectives

    • Triage critical issues

    • Becomes Item States - SME

    • Refine backlog  

    • Document workarounds

    • Work with several POs responsible for functionality/workflows in circulation and metadata management

    • Present requirements to a development team

    • Bugfest support

      • Write/revise test cases in Test rails

      • Triage user feedback

      • Prioritize bugs

    • Support the community's use of item state functionality

  • Likes conducting reference interviews 

  • Great familiarity/expertise with circulation workflows. 

  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 

  • Likes testing features 

5-8 hours per week

 

Circulation: Requests app 

Looking for a person to manage the requests app and workflows. 

  • Primary objectives

    • Triage critical issues 

    • Learn about app and workflows from community members and POs familiar with the app

    • Document workarounds 

    • Refine backlog

    • Per release - Refine one feature 

    • Work with several POs responsible for various circulated functionality/workflows 

    • Present requirements to a development team 

    • Bugfest support

      • Write/revise test cases in Test rails

      • Triage user feedback

      • Prioritize bugs

    • Support the community's use of FOLIO circulation functionality

  • Likes conducting reference interviews 

  • Great familiarity/expertise with circulation workflows including integrations with discovery/opac systems

  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 

  • Likes testing features 

10-15 hours a week 

 

Circulation: Lost items 

We are looking for a product owner who can 

  • Primary objectives

    • Triage critical issues

    • Refine backlog  

    • Document workarounds  

    • Work with several POs responsible for various circulated functionality/workflows 

    • Present requirements to a development team 

    • Bugfest support

      • Write/revise test cases in Test rails

      • Triage user feedback

      • Prioritize bugs

    • Support the community's use of FOLIO circulation functionality

  • Likes conducting reference interviews 

  • Great familiarity/expertise with circulation workflows including integrations with discovery/opac systems

  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 

  • Likes testing features 

5-8 hours a week

 

Circulation: Patron/Item blocks

Current product owner will be leaving the project and we are looking for a person who wants to continue to support FOLIO's fees/fines capabilities.

  • Primary objectives

    • Triage critical issues 

    • Knowledge transfer: Work with current PO(s) to document key functionality and workflows. Becomes a SME. 

    • Document workarounds 

    • Refine backlog

    • Per release - Refine one feature 

    • Work with several POs responsible for various circulated functionality/workflows 

    • Present requirements to a development team 

    • Bugfest support

      • Write/revise test cases in Test rails

      • Triage user feedback

      • Prioritize bugs

    • Support the community's use of FOLIO circulation functionality

  • Likes conducting reference interviews 

  • Great familiarity/expertise with circulation workflows 

  • Good familiarity with discovery system/opac workflows 

  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 

  • Likes testing features 

10-15 hours a week 

 

Service Points and Locations

Current product owner will be leaving the project. This is an area that is fairly well developed and relatively small in scope - an excellent place for someone who is new to product owner work to learn with a less stressful area.

Primary objectives:

  • Triage critical issues and refine open issues

  • Knowledge transfer: work with departing PO to learn about area

  • Work with cross-functional POs as service points and locations support multiple workflows

  • Refine one feature per release and present requirements to a development team(s)

  • Bugfest support

    • Help validate environment for testing 

    • Write/revise test cases in Test rails

    • Triage user feedback

    • Prioritize bugs

  • Likes conducting reference interviews 

  • Familiarity with circulation workflows and background in or willingness to learn metadata management workflows

  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 

  • Likes testing features 

5-8 hours a week, depending on if they are responsible for active development

 

Accessibility

Need a product owner who can lead efforts for POs/development team to

  • implement/think about accessibility 

  • organize accessibility testing

  • manage accessibility dashboard and backlog

  • write requirements / defects and present requirements to a development team(s)

  • lead effort to define greater shortcut keys 

  • advise teams regarding accessibility 

  • Likes conducting reference interviews 

  • Great familiarity with accessibility guidelines and best practices.

  • Great familiarity/experience implementing accessible features. 

  • Familiar writing accessibility testing scenarios/tasks

  • Can test features with web accessibility compliance tools and screenreaders

  • Enthusiastic in building an accessible FOLIO and staying current on changing guidelines. 

5-8 hours per week

 

Inventory Search Enhancements 

Need a product owner who can define inventory search requirements now that the app's search is powered by Elastic Search. 

  • Primary objectives

    • Triage critical issues 

    • Learn about current inventory search implementation and proposed development

    • Documentation  

    • Refine backlog

    • Per release - Refine one feature 

    • Work with several POs responsible for various cataloging functionality/workflows 

    • Present requirements to a development team(s)

    • Bugfest support

      • Help validate environment for testing 

      • Write/revise test cases in Test rails

      • Triage user feedback

      • Prioritize bugs

  • Likes conducting reference interviews 

  • Good familiarity in defining search requirements OR strong willingness to learn how to define search requirements

  • Bonus if you are familiar with Elasticsearch

  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 

  • Enthusiastic about search!!! 

10-12 hours a week 

 

Patron APIs for discovery systems

Need a person to

  • reviews current APIs used by discovery systems/opacs

  • is a SME for teams that develop or enhance circulation workflows to ensure e2e workflows are supported 

  • Documentation  

  • Refine backlog 

  • Triage bugs 

  • Per release - Refine one feature 

  • Work with several POs responsible for various circulated functionality/workflows 

  • Present requirements to a development team(s)

  • Bugfest support

    • Help validate environment for testing 

    • Write/revise test cases in Test rails

    • Triage user feedback

    • Prioritize bugs

  • Likes conducting reference interviews 

  • Great familiarity/expertise with circulation workflows 

  • Good familiarity with discovery system/opac workflows 

  • Good familiarity with APIs OR strong willingness to learn.  

  • Wants to develop/hone prioritization skills 

  • Likes testing features 

8-10 hours a week