September 26 2017

Software Development Update

• Roadmap: Living Product Roadmap
  • Upcoming changes to include new timelines for vaccines and gap analysis (still under discussion)
• Past sprint reports: Sprints 21-Present (v3.0.1 - 3.2.0+, March- 201
• Current sprint: Backlog Grooming Sprint 35
• Upcoming sprint: Backlog Grooming Sprint 36
• Overall updates and topics under discussion:
  • Moved forward with batch approval design (no feedback)
  • Accelerating the vaccine work by adding back more devs from the Malawi project (starting in October)
  • Spin up a team to start building out reports for vaccines
    • How to align on reporting? One idea, could we find a way to meet in person to have an in-depth conversation around reporting and strategy to build out an open-source solution.

Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated) ( minutes)

3.2.1 will be released after the next sprint. Will include performance improvements.

Need to schedule a meeting to discuss the balancing of:

• Performance
• New features 

In the OpenLMIS roadmap. Frequent releases require What information would be needed for the product committee to make decisions and come up with a strategy?

RailsGirls

• Introduction to the team: https://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/blog/2017-08-07-two-geeks-and-a-summer-of-code

• Overview of what the team has done

• Initial steps to setting up a Cordova OpenLMIS application

• Design of conducting an physical inventory on the mobile phone

Nick Reid (Deactivated) and RailsGirls

Nikita Gupta (Unlicensed) or pro95 (Unlicensed), could you insert the link to your presentation here?

SMS Service

• need to integrate with OpenLMIS template service

Cordova Application

• spinning up the web application on a mobile device

Mobile UI

• Stock Management Prototype

For a mobile device, what workflows would we want to change?

Next Steps:

• How to build a better understanding of usage needs
• How do we define our mobile strategy?
  
  • support client application integrations vs improving our web application to support mobile (via cordova)
  • Working with 3rd party applications to support mobile workflows (ie OpenSRP & ect)

OpenLMIS Comms Strategy

• Living OpenLMIS Comms Strategy 

• Additional contacts? Forums? Short and long term goals?

Tenly Snow (Deactivated)

Gap Analysis Update

• Priorities are in (sheet), will circulate the suggested roadmap via email (prior to governance committee)

Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated) (5 minutes)

Questions on upcoming work/features:

View Requisitions page enhancements: OLMIS-2700 - Getting issue details... STATUS

• What are the primary use cases for this page?
• Are users interested in viewing historical requisitions?
• Are there any comments on the filters and sorts?

Sam Im (Deactivated) (10 min)

Long-term Roadmap

Thoughts? What's missing? 

• Some of the items are overlapping but trying to find a way to demonstrate the longer term goals within features, performance, standards and integrations.  

Member updates? Upcoming travel or opportunities?

10 minutes

Upcoming conferences:

• TechNet in Portugal (Oct)

• 10th Global Health Supply Chain Summit, Dates: Nov 15-17 (Accra)

  
  

• Global Digital Health Form in DC (Dec)

• Vidya from the VillageReach