2023-07-26 team meeting¶

List data type update¶

Maria will present a report about the current state of list data types in Mathesar, and her work over the last couple months.

Discussion prompt:
- If you have time, please look through:
  - Product strategy draft (private)
  - User Research data (private)
  - Use cases list (private)
  - Persona needs analysis (private)
Discussion goal:
- Share progress and get feedback on current approach from the team

This is an update on the work that Kriti and Ghislaine have been doing.
Nothing yet is “finished”. Want feedback and thoughts as project continues.
Kriti and Ghislaine have been approaching it separately.
- Kriti: high-level product strategy and goals
- Ghislaine: looking through all the data we’ve collected on what kinds of problems people use data tooling to solve. Figuring out trends so that we can get to personas.
We had a persona for our launch last year. We’re seeking five personas to define right now
We’re not seeking decisions today. Not seeking synchronous discussion. Just presentation, discussion can be async.

We’ve been looking through public comments that we’ve noticed from Syften
We’re documenting specific “use cases”, with a bunch of detail about each one
- Documented here
Data extracted from these use cases is being stored in Mathesar in the User Research schema
Also looking at industry blogs and job postings
All this data will form the basis of the user personas that we’re defining
Ghislaine will provide more info to us later (via a wiki page) about how we can collaboratively add data to her set of “use cases” data
Pavish: how do we prioritize use cases?
- we’ll use the strategy to help with prioritization (Kriti’s work)
Brent: concerned that the categorization scheme might be too ridgid and might steer us towards assumptions based on the scheme. Need to be careful to avoid confirmation bias
- Kriti: Ghislaine pulled the categories from the use cases, not the other way around. We’ll also have a process for inputting new use cases and re-evaluating the categories.