2022-08-02 - Product WG Meeting Notes

Attendees:

@Santiago Suarez

@Ned Batchelder (Deactivated)

@Scott Dunn

@Sarina Canelake

@Dean Jay Mathew

@Faqir Bilal

@Ghassan Maslamani

@Xavier Antoviaque

@Kyle McCormick

@Jenna Makowski

Agenda Items for 08-02:

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Review action items from last meeting

@Jenna Makowski

Action items copied in section below

 

WG Board + Backlog

@Jenna Makowski

First pass at a Board for grooming work and enabling folks to pick up projects: https://github.com/orgs/openedx/projects/26/views/1

 

User Story reviewers - ALU initiative

@Jenna Makowski

Call for folks interested in providing feedback on user stories:

tCRIL is assembling a group to provide user feedback on user stories related to improving and enhancing authoring. Any suggestions for interested users/clients/community members? Please add here or reach out -

Challenges/Opportunities across key partners

@Faqir Bilal

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.)

Create a project brief and add to the backlog

Product Core Contributors

@Sarina Canelake

Discussion on proposal to kick off a Product Manager role:

Proposal open for community review and quick follow up at next meeting.

Core Product Offering Initiative -

@Kyle McCormick

tCRIL has been brainstorming about what a Core Product Offering might look like vis-a-vis a core platform offering/tech core. Let’s have an informal chat as a precursor to the initiative to define a Core Product Offering as stipulated in the WG Charter as a core WG responsibility. https://lucid.app/lucidchart/84a2f62c-2ed9-4f03-8222-42c326a19257/edit?invitationId=inv_98b3a38a-dd5f-49d4-9cf9-9fa816fbb95f&page=0_0#?referringapp=slack

Share the product+tech core visual in wiki and open for feedback, comments. This is a big topic and one we should have a regular touchpoint for, perhaps each meeting or in a focus group context.

 

Goals/Next steps from last meeting (07-19):

 

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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.

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:

Project Brief Overview

@Faqir Bilal

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

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

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

  • 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