General Rules
- To be an eligible user for Owner’s Voice, you need to be a part of the credit union industry.
- Every person that wants to vote or discuss CU*BASE projects must have a user account on Owner’s Voice.
- Users cannot create their own forums or topics.
Project Categorization Rules
Help Us Decide What’s Next- A programmer hasn’t worked on these projects.
- These projects are currently waiting for a programmer to work on them.
- These projects are assigned to the teams: WMD, Analytics, Applications, EFT, CSI, and GOLD.
- A programmer has worked on these projects for greater than 1 hour, but less than 300 hours.
- These projects are currently in development.
- These projects are not slated for release.
- They are projects assigned to the teams: WMD, Applications, CSI, EFT, Analytics, OBT, Operations, GOLD, Imaging.
- A programmer has worked on for greater than 1 hour, but less than 300 hours.
- These projects are currently in development.
- These projects are not slated for release.
- These projects are assigned to the teams: WMD, Applications, CSI, EFT, Analytics, OBT, Operations, GOLD, Imaging.
- They haven’t been worked on for 3 months.
- Program Modifications: These projects are in line with past and ongoing investments that continue to serve the will and expectations of CU*Answers user base.
- Software Enhancements: These are clear, new designs, to do what the software is not currently doing as a tool.
Voting Rules
- Voting topics are categorized by month, then year.
- Voting for the current month will start on sixth of the month.
- Users can select up to 10% of the projects listed when voting.
- Users can only submit one vote per project they select.
- Votes must be submitted by the end of the month.
- Voting closes on the first of the following month.
- Users are allowed to modify their votes before the month is over.
- Users cannot discuss inside of the voting topics.
- Users cannot create new topics in the voting forums.
Discussion Rules
- Each month, new topics are created.
- A new topic is created for each project.
- Users cannot create new topics.
- Topics include the project number, description, type, and hours worked (as of the time it was added).
- Users can engage in discussion to ask questions or argue for or against a project by replying to the topic.
- If you would like clarification on a projects description, do not hesitate to ask in the topic thread by replying to the topic.
Voting Results
- Monthly Reports are created to report the voting results of the previous month.
- Monthly Reports are uploaded under the Owner’s Voice Voting Results forum.
- They are organized by month, then year. Just like voting.
- Each Report contains all six categories of voting for the given month.
- Each Report will only display the Top 40 from each of the six categories.
- Once the Monthly Voting Results Report is created by the Owner’s Voice Team, a copy will be given to CU*Answers EVP of Development | Brian Maurer. The report will be present in CU*Answers Production Meetings.
- A more detailed explanation of the results is located on the second page of the report.
Projects Moved To Production
- By the 6th of the month, each project that has been put into production during the previous month will be moved to the “Moved To Production” forum under the Results section.
- These project no longer be eligible to vote on the following month since they are now in CU*BASE.