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Mentorship is vital in an open source community because so much information and knowledge is often not written down or documented.  Mentors focus on leveling up brigade members so they have the skills to be successful.  For brigades where there are leads or members who do not have easy access to the ON.Lab offices in Menlo Park, mentorship is also crucial since you do not have the ability to easily interact with and ask questions of core team members based there.  Because of that, we encourage all brigades that are not lead by an ON.Lab staff member to have a mentor who can support them, answer questions and get them unstuck when they are blocked.  Mentors can be ON.Lab staff members, TST members, module owners or anyone else who has deep knowledge to share about the work the brigade is doing.

Members

Anyone who is interested in participating in a brigade can join as a member and they will be asked to identify specific tasks related to that brigade's efforts that they will take on.  They are responsible for participating in the brigade's planning and for communicating their progress with their fellow brigade members.

Product Owners

The product owner makes sure the work of the brigade is relevant to the operator. As such, the product owner usually comes from an operator environment (AT&T, Verizon, etc..) and they have a PoC, Lab Trial, or Field Trial that has been selected by the use case steering team. The person could also come from a vendor involved in a PoC, lab trial, or field trial. It is similar to the role as defined in agile scrum. In short, they make sure the features are defined from the end user perspective, and they make sure that work is done in priority order. The product owner provides "pull" for features from the team - helping to bring the work into use in the network. One can find more information on the web about the role of a product owner. One such page is here.

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