PM pitch

PM responsibilities:

1. keep the backlog full and fresh
2. be on slack every day or two to answer #casa questions https://rubyforgood.herokuapp.com/
3. communicate with stakeholders
4. commitment: ~3-5 hr / wk
5. weekly stakeholder mtg - 0.5 hr - https://bit.ly/casacal
6. office hours weekly - good to attend part of
7. reach out to new #casa contributors and help them get started!

How to pitch:

1. intros
2. what is https://rubyforgood.org/
3. time requirements
4. give a tour of QA + mention our recorded demos on youtube
5. show the backlog
6. ask us questions!

FAQ:

1. tech stack? rails, postgres, on heroku.
2. how many users? Currently ~300 volunteers across 2 county-level chapters (room for growth: 900+ chapters in USA)
3. competitors? Yes. Too expensive, not enough functionality, not responsive to feature requests. Partial list: http://www.simplyoptima.com/ Salesforce, https://www.casamanager.com/

Onboarding plan:

1. Attend stakeholder meetings
2. Lots of pairing w/ other team leads
3. Click around in QA lots
4. Flesh out some existing issues
5. Make new issues
6. Plan new areas of product expansion and design tuning and issue them out
7. Record more demos?
8. ????