Roadmap
We'll be updating our Product Roadmap periodically. You'll also find below guidelines for prioritizing features and projects as well as a template for new projects.
Roadmap September 2019 - January 2020
In response to your feedback, we've made some big improvements to the design and functionality of Project pages (and individual and organization profiles too).
- Owner: Pia
- Status: v1 Shipped 09-23-2019
- Metric(s):
- Related complaints and support requests
- Fewer people contacting us instead of projects
- Conversions to contribution flow
- Increasing one-time donations
- More custom tiers
- How many Projects use customization options
- Page load time
We are re-focusing on projects that want to manage funds through the platform and we are re doing our homepage accordingly.
- Owner: Xavier
- Status: In Progress
- Launch: October
- Metrics:
- Projects create from homepage
- Page load time
- Clarity of message (qualitative) - we feel confident about
- Owner: Xavier
- Status: Researching
- Launch: TBD
- Metrics
- More self-hosted and unhosted Projects created
- Increase per-Project revenue
- Owner: Alanna (and Pia)
- Status: Design
- Implementation: End of October
- Metrics:
- More expenses filed
- Less support requests
- Less host admin time spent
- Way fewer issues with invoices (fewer expense comments)
- Use of the new features (ex batch expenses)
This is what we ask ourselves to decide what gets done and what doesn't.
- Does this serve our mission?
- Will this make us financially sustainable within a year?
- Is it feasible to build and maintain with our team and runway?
- Can this make us move faster?
- Does this increase quality and not technical debt?
- Will this bring us more Project and financial contributors?
- Is this already solved elsewhere or is it our unique contribution?
- Can we measure the success of this?
- Github issue
- explain the feature.
- Link to other opened issues or data.
- Include details below.
- Kickoff
- Organize a special meeting or on a scheduled one.
- Project owner.
- Role: Facilitator, decision-maker, producer.
- It's ultimately responsible for (needs to do or organize who does)
- Delivery
- Q&A
- Docs & Comms
- Post-ship plan for maintenance
- Success metric(s)
- Timeframe - kickoff and delivery, main milestones / roadmap
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