Hello all,

there was a lively discussion about our proposal for a Product Owner in the Product Council meeting today.

I don't feel myself able to summarize that whole discussion and also I don't want to report on opinions of individuals. But I think the general audience agreed that the SysOps SIG should have a PO. It was also said that there is an overlap with the Early Implementers group and that this latter group will have a big role when it comes to priorization. In general, having a PO will prevent that features remain unassigned - surprisingly, there seen to be a lot of features in Jira which are unassigned as of now.

It was said that the only obstacles for having a SysOps PO is a shortage of resources: both on our side (communication, time) and on the side of the POs (having a person to fill this position).

I summarize what we as the SIG have to do now:

- Harry Kaplanian will make "Epics" (a hierarchy level in the Jira) from our Backlog lines and will review with the SIG next Thursday in the SIG meeting. For your reference: The Backlog lines are in this spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15eO29vY2qp-FeUaoA292J-KwDy4c9z8dg-Pfp2fDymw/edit#gid=1185142304 , mostly in the "Library Dependent" tab. Keep in mind: These Backlog lines are only about Integrations ! 

 I said this already in the PC but we should stress again, also in the meeting with Harry, that these are only our requirements for integrations and that we have more requirements that we need to get into the developing pipeline soon.

@Dale: please convene that session which will include the discussion with Harry, I will be absent. To all: Please take care that all our integration needs will be represented in the Epics that Harry will create. FYI: Harry has been called the "roadmap guy" of the project.

- We were asked to and I also consider this very necessary that we document our items / needs. I will continue to collect our issues on this Wiki page https://wiki.folio.org/display/SYSOPS/Action+Items+for+Development . I will also add more information in the descriptions column. But I feel that we should have a special meeting to review this list after I have collected what came to my mind there. Of course, it is in a Wiki, the others are invited to also edit this list. I will make a Doodle Poll for a special meeting concerning this list. I think we should have a special meeting before Thursday, I hope we will find a time for this. Actually, it's only possible on Tuesday or Wednesday. I think we should have a complete list of our current needs that we can present to Harry already on Thursday. This will give him (and Cate, others in the PC) a better impression of our needs and how they can help us with employing a Product Owner.

Best,

Ingolf