My Fellowship Journey:

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Suruchi Dhungana

Product Management Fellow 2022

Overview

I have been working as a PM fellow in OpenMRS Dictionary Manager and ANC DAK project.

Fellowship Plan

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O4a4kDWxi99F8B-laH_fWqojPIxkgSgLcPy1fwreBJ0/edit?usp=sharing

Fellowship Journey

Where did you begin?

At the beginning of your fellowship, what were your top three learning goals?

1. Goal 1 - Support OCL team to improve Term Browser (Progress)
2. Goal 2- Represent OpenMRS user in OCL and address their issues and concerns(Progress)
3. Goal 3- ANC DAK :work closely with designer and developers

Who did you work with? Grace, Joe, Jonathan, Paul, Daniel

OpenMRS Dictionary Manager and ANC squad

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Lessons Learned

What challenges did you encounter during your fellowship?

• inter-organization dependency and waiting for features from another organization
• time difference to schedule meeting and delayed response
• Advocating for OCL over DM

How did you overcome these challenges?

• Continuous communication- follow up through mails
• joining almost all OCL meetings,
• bringing up roadmap and user priorities time and again and advocating for OCL

What did you learn from them?

• Continuous effort can make changes

Achievements

What do you consider to be your top three achievements?

• Monthly mini Roadmap and Prioritization

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Achievements

What do you consider to be your top three achievements?

• Bahmni team started using OCL Term Browser

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Achievements

What do you consider to be your top three achievements?

• Inputs to help text in OCL and

New forms in OCL production

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Achievements

Please include any videos or demos of your work.

• ANC DAK wiki
• Attending calls- WHO smart Implementer’s call
• Working to implement the O3 Qnrs and Codes in OCL for the Preeclampsia Care Plan
• Dictionary Manager wiki
• Represent OpenMRS priorities among OCL team, confirm the desired work, currently working on quick add mappings features
• Attending different calls: OHIE calls, design and dev calls, design sprint and will contribute as a sprint leader too
• Support in design review for help text and quick mappings
• Work closely with Joe in strengthening OCL and OCL for OpenMRS
• Have regular biweekly calls with Joe-
• discuss on priorities
• together build the roadmap
• discuss on utilizing squad call time
• Worked with Joe on a Workflow comparison video, between Dictionary Manager and OCL term browser and proposed a workflow for easy content management in OCL and now working in the direction
• Reviewing Joe’s new features video, receiving feedback from users and understanding user-stories for features

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Enhancing my PM skills

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Design conference: UX in action video

Product-led course:

Learnings:

Awesome User Onboarding Experience, Data Analysis & KPIs, Launch Planning, in-product Customer Education, Product Ops, User Categorization

Discussion and exercise:

Jobs to be done video:

Learnings:

Frame the market as jobs to be done rather than a product business

Find the product’s competitors not company’s

Product’s competitor content management in OpenMRS:Spreadsheet

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Am I building what the user wants, or what I think they want?

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What’s Next

What are your goals now?

Continue working in enhancing OCL for OpenMRS user and completing ANC DAK project

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Final Reflections

How was your experience working with OpenMRS as a fellow?

It’s going great so far. Thanks to all community members and special thanks to my mentor Grace.

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