Our product roadmap is a summary of the vision and direction for the forms design and submission products
Prior to the common components formation - the showcase team within NR developed and launched the original Common Hosted Forms service, leveraging the opensource product http://forms.io .
Past work completed and released is found in their GitHub repositories:
CHEFS: https://github.com/bcgov/common-hosted-form-service/wiki/Product-Roadmap
CHES: https://github.com/bcgov/common-hosted-email-service/wiki/Product-Roadmap
CDOGS: https://github.com/bcgov/common-document-generation-service/wiki/Product-Roadmap
COMS: https://github.com/bcgov/common-object-management-service/wiki/Product-Roadmap and COMS - Timelines
The high level epics the forminators are focused on and have recently completed are:
Team Formation and Management:
Workshops and coaching the team on Agile and Scrum best practices
Utilizing Agile platforms and best practices including JIRA and Confluence as information radiators and work organization
Facilitating Agile maturity through leveraging different Agile framework including Kanban, Scrumban, and SCRUM frameworks
Self-organizing Scrum teams with dedicated Product Owner and Scrum Master and Developers
Organization and management
New Jira kanban instance created to manage workload assignments
New public instance of Confluence created to enable on line collaboration and FAQ/guiderail/pattern documentation. Includes stub pages for related Common Components teams
User feedback & iterative feature improvement stories/user improvements
User improvements: First Pull Requests merged to prod CHEFS
PR and branching collaboration with Showcase as gatekeepers
Technical debt focus:
Branching strategy Investigations: tooling capabilities to future proof/readiness for any pivot from NR team in future
standardizing components: PoC/research
Stability of the platform
Scalability: Handling high usage
Performance
Ease of development
documenting limitations of opensource/forms.io
User documentation: Component description and help functionality (OOTB first, custom second)
DevOps - tooling and methodologies. Pipeline, PRs and CI/CD frameworks, documented branch protection policies and procedures
github actions flow (CI/CD decouple from jenkins approach)
UX design
Govt of BC standardization
Pivots (Standardized design)
UX prototypes to speed up research on UX
Research
User personals and Journeys
Document roles & user flow on confluence
Platform: library and back end
Building collaborative partnerships
Customer Inception: Health MVP pre work
These themes and epics are regularly deconstructed into features and stories, and are managed via our kanban board within Jira here: