Program Management/Firefox/2011-Q4-Goals

Projects & Programs

Desktop

===Electrolysis=== (lmandel)

  • Provide management assistance running meetings
  • Identify 4Q goals for project and track short term goals to completion

Silent Update

  • Manage effort running weekly meetings
  • Engage with Engagement, Product Management, releng, Security, and QA and keep them involved in the project
  • Kill major update pain points in 4Q

Cross Product

Crashkill

Telemetry

  • Work with engineering teams to identify and implement probes for top three Blizzard questions.
  • Improve adoption rate from current 2% on release and nightly.

Mobile

Performance

  • Create standards of legitimacy for responsiveness tests - clear methodology and configuration for running tests.
    • Startup path
    • Battery usage
    • Page load
    • Zooming
    • Panning
  • Create repeatable process for the above testing to benchmark.
  • Video stream capture for mobile devices set-up in engineering to get benchmarks.
  • A project plan to retrofit automated test harnesses to be Java compliant.

Java UI

  • Project plan and schedule for development.

Process

  • Detailed analysis of how we use bugzilla within engineering - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/BugzillaInterviews.
  • Weekly, high functioning meeting where project managers and product managers get together and track the status and issues around features, programs and bugs - "Directly Responsible Individual" (DRI) meeting.

General Program Management

  • Develop initial template/tool for managing programs consistently
  • Elaborate program management related material (wiki) and continue to educate engineering teams about pm