Engagement/Mozilla.org Durable Team
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Overview
We are the Mozilla.org Durable team (aka the Rock).
Key Q1 2016 Initiatives
- Improve newsletter email conversion on mozilla.org
- Improve conversion on the Firefox download page (/new)
- Improve Firefox desktop onboarding and testing process
- Rebrand www.mozilla.org
Relevant Links
- Product Backlog
- Current sprint task board
- Kanban Board for Sprints (deprecated)
- Agile Playbook
- Testing Playbook
- Optimizely training notes
- Retrospectives
- Sprint Demos
2 Week Sprint Meetings
Beginning in Q2 2016, we switched from two to three week sprints. The new schedule is below.
| Meeting | Time and Days | Attendees | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sprint Planning Meeting | Every first Thursday, 9am - 12pm PT (first day of a new sprint) | Core Team is required | Stakeholders may listen in, This meeting lasts as long as it takes. This is the first day of a new sprint. |
| User Story Readouts | Every first Thursday, 11 - 11:45am PT | PO, PM, Sponsor, Marketing Leads required | All teams have 5 minutes each to read out their User Stories for that sprint, followed by a Q&A with Leads. |
| Homeroom Day | Every first Friday, all day | All Durable Team members | Discretionary day - can be used to finalize sprint planning or prepare for sprint work beginning Monday. Also time for functional teams to meet and to have meetings that fall outside the purview of the Durable Team. |
| Daily Stand-Ups (15 minutes only) | Starting 1st Monday through 3rd Tuesday of Sprint. Monday, Wednesday and Friday stand ups are in-person (Mike Alexis' Vidyo room) at 9:30am PT. Tuesday and Thursday stand ups are asyncronous and status can be found here | Core Team is required | Anyone is welcome to listen, but may not speak, take all questions offline to Ali to Mike or Jen. |
| Sprint Demo Meeting | Every third Wednesday (last day of Sprint), time TBD | Everyone is welcome | This is where we show the work completed in the sprint, it's a place to ask questions and give feedback. In Q2, all Durable Teams will be demoing to the full Marketing organization. Time TBD - first Q2 sprint demo is May 11. |
| Sprint Retrospective Meeting | Every third Wednesday (last day of Sprint), time TBD | Core Team Only | No One else is invited to this meeting! We will discuss what to start, stop and continue doing in the next sprint. |
- All Meetings are in Mike Alexis' Vidyo
- if you have questions about these meetings, please contact Mike
Team
- Jennifer Bertsch (product owner)
- Mike Alexis (scrum master)
- Holly Habstritt (UX designer)
- Michael Ham (designer)
- Troy Palmer (copywriter)
- Paul McLanahan (back-end dev)
- Craig Cook (front-end dev)
- Alex Gibson (front-end dev)
- Schalk Neethling (front-end dev)
- Jon Petto (front-end dev)