App Mining Stakeholder Analysis

[joberding]

What is the problem you are seeing? Please describe.

The current proposals don’t take into consideration the needs of all Stakeholders with respect to changes to the App Mining program.

How is this problem misaligned with goals of app mining?

Changes are being proposed to App Mining. If these changes are created and implemented without an analysis of stakeholder needs, we may not solve the current problems that have been identified.

What is the explicit recommendation you’re looking to propose?

This proposal recommends an analysis of the needs of all App Mining stakeholders relevant to proposed changes to the App Mining program. In order to reach a consensus about changes, we must understand the needs of each stakeholder group. Internal stakeholders can be generally broken down as app miners, developers, evangelists, investors, general community members and the Blockstack core team. External stakeholders may include Game Theorists, App Mining Reviewers such as NIL, Blockstack partners and various regulatory bodies.

What is the dry run period (if any)

There is no need for a dry run period.

Describe your long term considerations in proposing this change. Please include the ways you can predict this recommendation could go wrong and possible ways mitigate.

Stakeholder analysis should not hold up changes to App Mining. A first level analysis can be focused on internal stakeholders only. This analysis can be accomplished via a limited sample of interviews followed by surveys. This should provide an adequate initial baseline for understanding the needs of stakeholders and moving forward with relevant changes to App Mining.