Before you dive into process for process sake and die a death of a
thousand cuts by the toolchain...
How about a vastly simplified approach (can still use the tools of
course but in a more.... streamlined fashion)
1) Define core personas. (project patron, project contributor).
2) Define what an minimally viable product would be for those two
personas.
3) Spend three weekends (and 3 hours per day between weekends) building
the minimally viable product. If it's more than a man month, kill it.
Aggressively fight scope creep etc.
(repeat the above for the corporate entity as well).
Make that your first milestone. Make each of the three items an epic.
I'm seeing lots of massive brain dumps, grandiose plans, long lists.
That's a huge amount of information. You'll die from analysis paralysis.
I used to do that as well (in my earlier investor/founder experiences).
None of those ever shipped or even came close.
With my current portfolio, we have followed the above process, and it's
working incredibly well.
FNF can easily be the first end to end customer for the MVP , at
somewhat significant scale as well.
(To all, I'm using lots of business/corporate/startup terms, that's
where I live and what I do (quite successfully as an
investor/founder/board member of several startups), but I'm also the co
founder of a 501c3 (FNF https://www.thefnf.org) and a huge believer in
the snowdrift mission etc. I've spent extensive time with the founders
and core team and am providing an advisory role).
See I was thinking that the redmine/agile/persona/mvp process was going
to be like.... ~3 days (say Monday to Friday after SCALE). It's been
almost a month since SCALE. (yes everything takes 3x and costs 5x of
estimate). Still, keep it simple/lean and get something built. You've
got a very solid sw eng/design team. Go build awesome.
Do the legal entity in parallel.
Please please please please read
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ and
then read it again. Without a 0.1 , you'll never be successful.
OpenProject let's you switch from cathedral to bazaar at any time. Heck
just leave everything public, if anyone cares enough, they'll get in
touch via a myriad of methods (5 mailing lists? Really? That's a bit
much in my opinion).
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