Roadmap¶
Middle of November 2016¶
Goal¶
A3 will develop into a product for civic participation. We want to offer city administrations and other political institutions the first version of the platform adhocracy.de, which lets them run idea collection processes with or without maps. It should get them interested in the topic of e-participation and trying it for their processes.
KPIs¶
- we can offer an initial set up of a new process and organization with medium effort
- all development debt is mapped as far as possible (#debt)
Features¶
- idea collection process with or without a map
- private and public processes
- initiators can invite new users
- users can edit their own account information
- initiators can generate embed snippets for processes
- concept for newsfeed / event-stream
- concept for notifications (users can follow processes and proposals in processes)
End of December 2016¶
Goal¶
Adhocracy should be optimized to allow processes to be administered by initiators. It also should optimize platform features that allow users and organizations to feel more at home.
KPIs¶
- we can offer an initial set up of a new process and organization with little effort
- At least two persons feel comfortable configuring the adhocracy backend (#busfactor)
- we have a written strategy for onboarding of new developers (#busfactor)
- we have a strategy to tackle identified critical development debt on the go (#debt)
Features¶
- initiator interface to edit process info and users
- improved user profile - avatars - description - link to social media
- organization pages with organization info (short description, link, logo) to collect processes by an organization
- new process type: polls with discussion
- simple stats on landing page and for processes (number of users, number of comments, number of votes)
- better embedding
- single-sign on with popular identity providers (e.g. Google, Twitter, Facebook)
- follow processes or organizations with notifications
- allow platform/organization/process initiators to communicate with participants of the platform/organization/process (email/newsletter)
- user dashboard where users can see the content they created and follow
- simple subscription management (email/notification) for users
Middle of February 2017¶
Goal¶
- Adhocracy provides an attractive environment that allows users to easily setup a simple participation process.
- More complex processes can be setup easily without help from developers.
- We have a dedicated concept for trainings in adhocracy and other activities related to online participation.
KPIs¶
- we can offer an initial set up of a new process and organization with tiny effort
- Over 80% of all identified adhocracy development debt has been tackled (#debt)
- at least two people are able to independently further develop backend and frontend (#busfactor)
Features¶
- initiator interface for processes and organizations
- new process type: participatory budgeting
- better discovery of processes (recommended processes, featured processes)
- search function for comments and contents
- initiators can edit permissions in all processes
- more filtering options for processes (e.g. most activity)
Constraints/challenges which we identified¶
- Busfactor (at least two people should be able to operate/fix/further develop backend and frontend at any time (#busfactor)
- development debt (#debt)