Hi all,
As the product pipeline has grown, the Product Working Group has recognized that our current onboarding process is not scaling well or meeting the needs of our community, product team, or methodologists. We’re working on a project to revamp that onboarding process. Since this has a potential high impact on future projects and has been a frequent topic of discussion, I wanted to provide some background on what we’re solving for, our goals, and timeline. Feedback is, as always, highly appreciated and encouraged!
Problem Statement: The current product onboarding process does not provide methodologists with clear options and pathway to launch, particularly between DG1 and live. It is unclear what the engineering requirements and constraints are and what engineering prioritization looks like. Additionally, many members of the Coop are currently unclear on the launch process and current status of product launches. Products aren’t getting launched after the technical infra to scale is there.
Goals: Create clear, step-by-step guidelines for how products go from idea to on-chain assets at the Coop. Any crypto-native individual, whether they are a member of the Coop or not, should be able to read these guidelines and understand how the Coop evaluates and launches products. These guidelines should be the result of feedback from methodologists, the community, and the product & engineering expertise of various Coop members. These guidelines should both clarify existing expectations as well as clearly outline what is required from Product, Engineering, and Methodologists and give some expectation of timelines to launch various types of products.
Deliverables:
- Diagram/Flow chart of product launch process
a. Status: In progress - Revised Gitbook entry with highly detailed launch process
a. Status: In progress - Documentation on various levels of engineering complexity
a. Note: This includes both the current matrix that engineering uses to score difficulty, as well as documentation created by Punia that details the technical requirements for previous launches, costs, and examples of what they might look like moving forward. The matrix will be instructional whereas the documentation will be educational.
b. Status: Not started - Documentation of roles/expectations for Product, Engineering, and Methodologists
a. Status: In progress - Roadmap for current products in pipeline
a. Status: Not started, blocked by dependencies on prior items
In accordance with Coop and Product principles, we’ll look to show our work & take feedback as we go, and release deliverables as individual MVP assets when ready!
Proposed Timeline:
Week of 8/3:
- Calls with methodologists for feedback on the current process.
- Methodologists identified so far: @Thomas_Hepner , @Matthew_Graham , @DarkForestCapital , @verto0912 . (Anyone else who would like to participate, please reach out to @catjam on Discord.)
- Incorporate edits/feedback on current docs (#1-4 above) from Product WG (meg, @puniaviision , @edwardk , and @overanalyser )
- Review docs #1-4 with members of PWG, other WG leads, and selected methodologists. Incorporate feedback.
Week of 8/10:
- Post docs #1-4 on forum for feedback.
- Incorporate feedback & create IIP (or forum poll) to get community buy-in.
- With passing of poll / IIP, post updated versions to Gitbook
Weeks of 8/17-8/31:
- Using updated docs, collaborate with EWG, Simple Indices, and Leveraged Indices pod on initial roadmap. Decide how frequently this will be revisited, what format it will take, who will maintain, and where it will live
