2022-07-19 - Product WG Meeting Notes

Owned by Jenna Makowski
Last updated: Jul 20, 2022
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Attendees

@Faqir Bilal

@Wajahat Abbas

@Dean Jay Mathew

@George Babey (Deactivated)

@Ned Batchelder (Deactivated)

@Shelly Upton

@Xavier Antoviaque

@Ryan O'Connell

@Santiago Suarez

@Samuel Paccoud

@Ghassan Maslamani

@Jenna Makowski

@Edward Zarecor

@Sarina Canelake

@Kyle McCormick

Goals/Next steps from last meeting (07-05):

  • Goal: Get to a Working Group Charter and governance model

    • Next steps: Jenna to take a first pass at drafting a charter based on group input

  • Goal: Get to a prioritized short-list of 2-3 short-term, small but high ROI projects that the group can grease the wheels on

    • Next steps: Faqir volunteered to organize the raw Miro Board into short project briefs

 

Agenda Items for 07-19:

Agenda Item

Presenter

Description

Notes/Next steps

Agenda Item

Presenter

Description

Notes/Next steps

Governance and Charter

@Jenna Makowski

  1. Jenna to give a brief overview of highlights. Open floor for questions/comments. Agree to a deadline for acceptance and discuss test-drive opportunities.

Product working group Charter

Next steps - Get draft text into Wiki and open for next two weeks for in-line commentary, questions, feedback. Discuss outstanding concerns synch/1:1 where needed over next two weeks, and aim to “ratify” by next meeting. Discuss plan to test drive and iterate. It’s not a static document.

Wiki version available: Product working group Charter

Project Brief Overview

@Faqir Bilal

Faqir to lead discussion on translating the idea board into project briefs. Discuss next steps for building backlog/prioritizing.

Idea Board Project Briefs

Consensus that the proposed template for project briefs works well.

Soft prioritization of the following briefs against the North Star Goal to Define a Core Product Offering:

And continued prioritization of Idea Board Project Briefs | 1. Governance model for the Product Working Group

Next steps: The goal is to fully flesh the above 3 product briefs by the next meeting. Interested Members can add their names and pair asynchronously.

BTR and Product

@Dean Jay Mathew @Kyle McCormick @Ghassan Maslamani

  • Build-Test-Release (BTR): Update from BTR Working Group about possible synergies/working relationship

General interest in aligning BTR workflows with Product input. Next goal is to flesh Idea Board Project Briefs | 6. Provide support to other working groups

  • Topics to include: Goal to arrive at a shared understanding of what “done” and “shipped in Named Release X” mean/are defined on the Community Roadmap

  • Goal to arrive at a shared understanding of vocabulary for aligning Core Product Offering elements with BTR workflows - ie definitions for “supported”, “included” etc

 

To cover next time:

4. ALU project - context and call for user reviewers: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OEPM/pages/3470196737

5. Item from a previous meeting: Insights from different partners about key challenges/opportunities from the organizations/industries that they work with/in (segmented by verticals or use cases: L&D, higher ed, etc.)

6. Two ideas for subsequent meetings:

-Sarina/Jenna to present on ideas for Product Manager Core Contributor program

-Kyle/Jenna to present/workshop on ideas/model for Core Product Offering and its intersection with Tech Core