Roadmap September 2019 - January 2020

New Collective Page

In response to your feedback, we've made some big improvements to the design and functionality of Collective 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 Collectives use customization options

  • Page load time

Homepage Redesign

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:

  • Collectives create from homepage

  • Page load time

  • Clarity of message (qualitative) - we feel confident about

Onboarding Flow & Business Model

• Owner: Xavier

• Status: Researching

• Launch: TBD

• Metrics

  • More self-hosted and unhosted Collectives created

  • Increase per-Collective revenue

Expense Flow Redesign:

• ​Issue​

• 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)

Back your Stack

• Owner: François

• Status: Ready to Deploy

• Metrics:

  • Subscriptions created to Back your Stack.

Key questions for prioritization

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 Collective and financial contributors?

• Is this already solved elsewhere or is it our unique contribution?

• Can we measure the success of this?

Template for new projects

• 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