Ed,
Thanks for sharing the notes from this morning's meeting.
A question regarding the Priority Gaps. After reading them, I noticed that one
of the gaps looks like it might be more of an issue with how they are using
Mifos as opposed to something that needs a feature. This brings up two points:
1. As a community, we need to fully investigate feature requests to understand
the business case and develop something appropriate. In my years of working
with customers, and I mean outside of Mifos as well, they aren't always able to
articulate what they need, or the full details don't come across, or describe
what they need as a solution as opposed to describing the problem. By no means
is it intentional, it's just a natural part of the process. And on the flip
side, we need to make sure we communicate our solutions back to the customer,
both so they can make sure they understand it but also to verify that WE
understood the problem as well. I have a feeling a lot of us know this, but
just wanted to reiterate it.
2. How do we reach out to customers? What's the correct way to do that?
Through you or...?
Ryan
On Oct 27, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Ed Cable wrote:
> Community,
>
> We have launched a community-wide product working group to unite the
> community on one development path. The major goal from this group is to
> consolidate all community needs/requests into one unified product roadmap.
>
> We had our first meeting this morning with some very useful discussion on the
> major features the product should support. I realize a good portion of you
> weren't able to join so please read the notes from the call:
>
> http://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/display/RES/Product+Working+Group+-+10.27.2011
>
> Next Steps:
> The working group will be break off into teams focusing on individual areas
> of the product to start addressing the key needs that arose from the meeting.
> Each of these teams will be sending emails to the list to capture additional
> requirements.
>
> Another important next step is building out the processes and communication
> channels to get these feedback and details. We have both and an active
> developer community and a vibrant user base - but they remain disconnected.
> We want to bring you all together.
>
> We have volunteer developers across the community who are ready to support
> customers and fill the gaps in the product - they need to hear from the users
> on what to build. A short while ago we compiled this list of priority gaps
> at: http://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/display/MIFOS/Priority+Gaps.
>
> Similar to our open developer meetings, we're going to be kicking off weekly
> user meetups to provide a forum to capture this feedback and will also be
> setting up some one on one meetings to directly listen to your needs.
>
> I will be sending out additional emails with more details on each of these
> action items.
>
> Ed
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