Good day TC!

I’m acting on Mike Winkler’s request to produce and maintain a list of prioritized skill set needs – this can be helpful when recruiting new participating institutions.  This list would be owned/maintained by the Technical Council.  So, here is what I put together for dev/devops checklist.  And I chatted with Harry to put together the PO list. 

Wondering if we

1. Can agree on the skill set
2. Publish it off the wiki or elsewhere

Thoughts/comments? I don’t know if we’ll have time to cover it in Wednesday’s meeting or whether we can discuss via email or slack.

@Mike Gorrell, should I enter this into the backlog?

Developer skill set:

(this is a list for a back-end developer; for a front-end developer, #5 would have to be swapped with #1)

1. Java 8 & Object-Oriented Design/Programming
2. Implementation of RESTful interfaces in a microservices model (RAML, JSON, XML)
3. Databases, both SQL and NoSQL – PostgreSQL specifically is a plus
4. Virtualization – Docker, Vagrant
5. Client-side Javascript (React) and related tools/frameworks
6. Test tools/frameworks
7. CI/CD – Jenkins
8. Server-side Javascript (Node JS) and related tools/frameworks
9. Security – SSO, OAUTH, SAML, LDAP, etc.
10. SCM - Git/GitHub

DevOps skill set:

1. SCM (Git/GitHub)
2. CI/CD – Jenkins 
3. Virtualization – Docker, Vagrant
4. Infrastructure Automation – Ansible, Puppet, Chef
5. Orchestration – Kubernetes/ECS, Rancher
6. Security -- – SSO, OAUTH, SAML, LDAP
7. Cloud  - AWS, GoogleCloud

PO Primary Responsibilities

• Own the team backlog, contribute to program vision and roadmap, Key stakeholder in story definition assisting the team with clarification, estimates, story sequencing and team objectives for each sprint
• Backlog refinement – Build, prune, and maintain the team requirements backlog (consisting of features, user stories, defects, and enablers) with input from the SIGs as key stakeholders
• Iteration Planning – Review and prioritize the backlog for iteration planning, including coordination of dependencies with other product owners
• Be the main source for feature detail and priorities for the development teams
• Responsibility for accepting the final iteration plan on behalf of the development team
• Just in time story elaboration – Keep the process flowing (balance between stale stories and inhibited flow of new stories)
• Drafting story acceptance criteria and providing examples when feasible
• Accepting stories into baseline
  • Validate that the stories meet acceptance criteria and completeness; meets Definition of Done
  • Validates fitness for use
  • The team member empowered to accepts stories (i.e. requirements) as truly done
• Participating in team demo and retrospective
  • As a key member of the team and the one person responsible for requirements, key in driving and developing the team demo
  • As a key member in the team retrospective helping drive improvements across the team and project
• Coordination of dependencies with other product owners throughout the sprint
• Manage communications and relationships with diverse stakeholders, ranging from Product Managers, Project Managers, developers, designers, QA engineers, architects and the key SIGs 

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Mark Veksler

Director, FOLIO Development - EBSCO Information Services

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