Engagement/MDN Durable Team
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Overview
Q3 Sprint 2 begins July 18th!
We are the MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) durable team. See the main MDN wiki page for MDN's mission, vision, and KPI.
Team Members
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Product Owner | Kadir Topal |
| Scrum Master | Vik Iya |
| Makers | |
| Content | William Bamberg |
| Chris Mills | |
| Jean-Yves Perrier | |
| Florian Scholz | |
| Eric ("Sheppy") Shepherd | |
| Web development | Stephanie Hobson |
| John Whitlock | |
| Dmitriy Chukin (Caktus) | |
| Erin Mullaney (Caktus) | |
| Jeff Bradberry (Caktus) | |
| QA | Matthew Brandt |
| Business Analysis | Jeremie Patonnier |
| Community | Janet Swisher |
Initiatives and Deliverables
What are initiatives and deliverables?
2016 Q3
| Area | Initiative | Deliverable(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Meta | Define a clear set of goals for MDN and a roadmap to achieve them that support our overall Developer Marketing priorities. |
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| Development | Move MDN to a sustainable technology stack. |
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| Content | Complete, simplify, and extend the reach of the documentation of core web technologies for mainstream Web developers. |
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| Community | Taking stock |
2016 Q2
| Area | Initiative | Deliverable(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Meta | Define a clear set of goals for MDN and a roadmap to achieve them that furthers our overall Developer Marketing priorities. | Goals and roadmap |
| Development | Mitigate our current spam problem so users continue to trust MDN. | Implementation of spam mitigation solution |
| Content | Establish value proposition for web developers & designers to build, test and debug websites and web apps across browsers. | MDN content focus on cross-browser APIs, Web Extensions, and Dev Tools |
Sprint Schedule
| Task Board | Start | End | Demo/Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 Q3 | |||
| Sprint 1 | 27 June | 12 July | Demo |
| Sprint 2 | 18 July | 2 August | |
| Sprint 3 | 8 August | 23 August | |
| Sprint 4 | 29 August | 13 September | |
| Sprint 5 | 19 September | 4 October | |
| 2016 Q2 | |||
| Sprint 1 | 25 April | 10 May | Demo |
| Sprint 2 | 16 May | 31 May | Demo |
| Sprint 3 | Mini-sprint weeks of 6-10 and 20-24 June | ||
Relevant Links
- MDN Durable team processes
- Agile glossary
- MDN Roadmap: Epics by theme and timeframe
- MDN backlog in Taiga
- Initial product backlog
Meetings
Sprint Meetings:
| Meeting | Time and Days | Attendees | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sprint Planning Meeting | Every third Thursday, starting on April 21 | Core Team required | Stakeholders may listen in. This meeting lasts as long as it takes. |
| Daily Stand-Up (15 minutes only) |
8:30am Pacific daily Monday-Thursday first week of Sprint, Monday-Thursday second week of Sprint, Monday-Tuesday third week of Sprint |
Core Team required | Anyone is welcome to listen, but only core team members speak. All questions from non-core team members should be taken offline with Kadir or Vik. |
| Mid-sprint check-in | every third Tuesday | Core team required | High-level check of how the sprint is going, adjustments that need to be made immediately, and progress toward completing the committed user stories for the sprint. |
| Sprint Review Meeting | every third Wednesday, starting on May 11 | Everyone welcome | The team will show the work completed in the sprint. It's a place to ask questions and give feedback. |
| Sprint Retrospective Meeting | every third Wednesday, starting on May 11 | Core Team only | No one else is invited to this meeting. |
- Unless otherwise specified, all team meetings will be in Vik's Vidyo room.
Non-Sprint MDN Meetings:
(All times Pacific)
- MDN Weekly Dev Planning: Mondays, 10:00AM
- MDN Content Coordination meeting: Tuesdays, 9.00AM
- MDN Weekly Doc Request Triage: Tuesdays, 9:30AM
- MDN Weekly Bug Swat: Fridays, 8:00AM
- MDN Community Meeting: Bi-weekly, Wednesdays, 10:00AM
See full calendar for dates and participation info.
Communication Channels
- Email: mdn-team@mozilla.com
- IRC: #mdn and #mdndev are our main channels (public conversations) / #team-awesome for private conversations.
- Mailing lists:
- dev-mdc a.k.a. mozilla.dev.mdc
- dev-mdn a.k.a. mozilla.dev.mdn
- mdn a.k.a. mozilla.mdn
An explanation of these channels is on the page for MDN community conversations