<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>Forwarding this mail from Steven Feldman, who wants to investigate whether OSGeo projects involve product management strategies. I wonder who of the PSC would be the best to fill in his questionnaire and be interviewed? See his request below.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't we have much product management strategy in QGIS. What he have is the strict time-based release process (which proved to be very useful), along with the LT releases. We also have the QEPs and discussion mailing lists.</div><div><br></div><div>Other than that there is not much product management going on. Or do you have other insight/ideas?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Jürgen - do you want to participate in the questionnaire/interview?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Greetings,</div><div>Andreas<br></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Steven Feldman</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 at 11:05<br>Subject: Fwd: Product management in OSGeo projects<br>To: Andreas Neumann <<a href="mailto:andreas@qgis.org">andreas@qgis.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Hi Andreas<div><br></div><div>I wonder if you could help me? I sent this mail to the Discuss list and also directly to Paolo. I am very keen to get someone from the QGIS PSC or other leadership to participate in my study of product management processes. Could you forward this to the right person?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks very much<br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="m_7256722485129152082Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">Steven Feldman <<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com" target="_blank">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Product management in OSGeo projects</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">18 March 2019 at 15:33:04 GMT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br></span></div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Hi<div><br></div><div>I am doing a little bit of research into product management strategies and processes within OSGeo. The purpose is to inform a talk that I hope to present at FOSS4G and/or FOSS4GUK later in the year.</div><div><br></div><div>My aim is to explore and compare approaches to product management across several well known OSGeo projects.<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">Amongst the questions that I will <b>try</b> to answer</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:13px"><br></div>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">Does the Open Source collaborative development model incorporate and support product management disciplines?</li>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">Are there formal product management strategies within the OSGeo Community?</li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">How is a roadmap developed?</li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">Are there best practices that we can learn from and share?</li></ul><div>If you are a member of a Project Steering Committee and would be willing to participate in this research effort by completing a short survey and possibly a follow up interview please contact me or forward this mail to someone within your project who might be interested in participating.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for any help</div><div><br></div><div>Steven</div><div>
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