The MDS City and Provider Working Group Steering Committees meet for Checkpoints during the release creation to evaluate proposed features for the current release. This lets them review feature proposals, align current work to goals, and ensure the release features and work is on track. Read more about evaluating feature proposals on our blog.

For this review process, we have created a new rubric to help guide the evaluation, which looks at feature utility, stakeholder adoption, implementation simplicity, direction consensus, and work completed as part of the evaluation criteria. The outcomes from this review are provided back to the OMF Member leadership committees and the MDS community.

Proposed features are currently being evaluated on the following criteria:

1. Utility - Is this solving a real known or likely problem for multiple groups of stakeholders with real utility and defined use cases?
2. Adoption - Are multiple stakeholders committed to adopting the feature in the next release, and willing to provide feedback?
3. Simplicity - How simple is this solution to understand and implement by both producers and consumers?
4. Consensus - Is this feature designed in a way that will encourage consensus on direction and level of urgency from other working group members? What is the general level of consensus that already exists, if any?
5. Work - How much work is already completed and how much is left to be done to make it a viable addition to the spec?

We welcome feedback on these criteria as we work to put them into practice and solidify them over the coming months.