1. State of community product management functions
- What do you think of the product development lifecycle (have you looked at it)?
- What are the critical functions that the community needs in the context of managing the product?
- For which of those critical functions, if any, do you think a product council is needed?
- How does the product council relate to other groups working on these critical functions?
- Which of those functions are missing from current activity or processes?
2. The mission and charter of the Product Council - When you heard about the product council, what did you hope the product council might achieve?
- How close to your hopes did the product council charter come (have you read it)?
- What would you change about the charter?
- What impression, if any, do you think the product council has on people looking at Sakai from outside the community?
3. Membership - Have we got the membership right? What constitutes the right mix of people on the Council? How should members be selected?
- Should Board members be on the Council?
- What expectations should there be on council members?
4. What the Product Council has done - What do you think the product has focussed its attention and energy on?
- What do you see as the successes of the product council so far? What are the disappointments?
- What has been the net pay-off of the product council thus far. Is the Sakai 2 product better off? Sakai 3?