Webmaker/Heartbeat

Overview

• Two-week heartbeats. We work in two-week cycles or "heartbeats." Not everything can or needs to be done in two weeks -- but it's a helpful way to plan and communicate. (Here's a "Hearbeat FAQ" on what, how and why)
• First Mondays. The first Monday of each Heartbeat is special. It's all about planning, brainstorming, and proposing what we want to get done together that cycle. You'll meet in your teams and groups to come up with big ideas and make proposals. It involves a lot more meeting and communicating than other days -- this is where we make sure we're working smart, not just hard.
• TPS meetings. For the TPS group. TPS gets together to discuss priorities for each heartbeat. They filter up your proposals to talk about prioritizing, resource allocation, and how they align with our quarterly and yearly goals. Proposal: these should happen on Mondays. Proposed time: 1pm ET. (Use this Doodle Poll to tell us if that works.)
• Webmaker Now meetings (aka: "Heartbeat Overview" meeting). For everyone working on Webmaker. These happen the first Tuesday of each heartbeat. So we can communicate together as a large group, and pull together a crisp shared story of what Webmaker is working on that heartbeat.
• Demos. Happen every Friday at 4pm ET. These are a chance to show what you learned and got done that heartbeat. Big demos happen at the end of the heartbeat. Smaller works-in-progress at the mid-point.
• Team meetings and stand-ups. These are up to individual teams, managers and groups to design, schedule and format. There's a list in progress here: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/standups

Detail

First Mondays

The first Monday of each heartbeat is special. The focus is on:

• • 1) cleaning up. Dusting off, polishing, pushing to production, or blogging about etc. the stuff you made in the last heartbeat.
  • 2) planning. Proposing in teams and groups what you want to get done in the next one.
  • 3) teeing up success. This is where we take a regular breathe to think, plan, brainstorm and communicate.

Webmaker Now meetings

This is the Heartbeat Overview meeting. For everyone working on Webmaker. The goal is to:

• a) document. one crisp headline what each group is working on. captured in an etherpad before the call starts.
• b) communicate. understand each group is proposing to put on the train that cycle. question. challenge each other for clarity, prioritization and smart resource allocation.
• c) follow up. break into small groups for deeper dives. The above should take about 15 minutes of open plenary. Then we can do break-outs with smaller groups for offline conversations where they're most needed.