MFE Product Roadmap Process/Ideas (ARCHIVED)

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Background 

This project is aimed to develop a public roadmap for OpenMRs as well as a basic level of operational hygiene.

The idea for this project stemmed from different meetings and conversations that exhibited several challenges with the existing model.

Main challenges:

- Information is spread all over Confluence and is difficult to find

- There is a need for alignment and for enabling visibility of the big picture

- Lack of effective prioritisation and for managing the relationship between resources and desired features

- Organisations and stakeholders have a tendency to build something on their own instead of using/improving someone else's work resulting in several widgets that serve the same purpose. Some potential root causes for this are: this is a common practice in the development world, people don't want to mess with other people's implementation or the fact that is a different looking UI

Purpose 

What are we optimising for? 

Alignment: 

- Creating and communicating an integrated vision of the product instead of individual features

- Synchronising everyone on the same page 

Time to value: 

- Identifying users and getting their feedback proactively to serve as an input to drive the vision for the product including usage analytics 

- Creating a light governance process and a way to propose, validate the demand for and prioritize new features

- Avoid dry backlog and make it easy for the community to pick up small projects to work on 

- Get organisations and users excited about what's coming 

- Improving efficiency and reducing complexity by finding opportunities for capability rationalization 

Steps

1.Current scope inventory:

Capture information about the current state of the product, what has been built so far and gather and organize all the existing ideas and WIP features for the future. 

• List of ideas 
• List of projects 
• Ideas organized iteration 1

2.Value assessment and prioritization

• Create a prioritization framework based on a common definition of value to prioritize existing ideas
• Implement an efficient way to collect community feedback (voting system)
• Create a user research capability that involves all the different archetypes to understand current problems and validate potential solutions 
• Design a way to capture usage data 

3.Create and communicate Product Roadmap 

4.Define maintenance mechanisms 

People 

Definitions and concepts