Program Management
Engineering project and program management is a young discipline for Mozilla. Project and program managers are connectors and facilitators who focus on issues that span organizational teams.
This wiki page lists the initiatives and goals of the program management team. It allows for a place to exchange process ideas and summarize meetings.
About Project and Program Management
Depending on the project, project and program managers may be responsible for one or more of the following:
- project inception (investigation) and planning
- goal and priority setting
- expectation management
- schedule
- scope management
- resource management
- inter-team collaboration and negotiation
Furthermore, project and program managers frequently assist in:
- running effective meetings
- communicating project status
Team
Find us on irc channel #pm for keeping in touch and collaboration.
| Name | IRC | Programs and Projects | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erin Lancaster | elancaster at mozilla dot com | elancaster | Firefox for Android |
| Lawrence Mandel | lmandel at mozilla dot com | lmandel | Platform (Gecko) |
| Martin Best | mbest at mozilla dot com | mbest | Game Keeper |
| Dietrich Ayala | dietrich at mozilla dot com | dietrich | Firefox OS |
| Michael Treese | mtreese at mozilla dot com | mtreese | Firefox OS |
| Marco Mucci | mmucci at mozilla dot com | marcom | Firefox Metro |
| Sheila Mooney | smooney at mozilla dot com | smooney | Engineering Director, Program / Project Management |
Programs
Active
Bugzilla Anthropology
- PM Martin Best
A deep dive into Mozilla's development practices via interviews and data mining Bugzilla.
CrashKill
- PM Sheila Mooney
Killing top crashes in Firefox browsers.
HTML5 Games
- PM Martin Best
A program to enable modern gaming on the HTML5 platform.
Metro
- PM Marco Mucci
Building a Windows Metro version of the Firefox browser.
Mobile Performance
- PM Erin Lancaster
Focus on the performance of Firefox mobile browsers.
Mobile Web Compatibility
- PM Lawrence Mandel
Opening up the mobile Web to all browsers via best practices and standards based approaches.
Snappy
- PM Lawrence Mandel
Improving the responsiveness of the Firefox desktop browser.
Telemetry
- PM Lawrence Mandel
Collecting real world Firefox instance data to facilitate development decisions.
Archive
- Apps - lmandel
- Desktop Hang Analysis - smooney
- Electrolysis - lmandel
- Silent Update - lmandel
Projects
Program Proposals
- Quality
- Performance + Responsiveness
- Stability
- Security
- Paper cuts
Quarterly Goals
| 2013 | Q1 Goals | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Q1 Goals | Q2 Goals | Q3 Goals | Q4 Goals |
| 2011 | Q2 Goals | Q3 Goals | Q4 Goals |
Useful Links
Communication
| Communication Type | Mechanism | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Chat/IRC | #pm | all |
| Weekly sync | Tuesdays, 1pm PT
|
Program Managers |
| Meeting summaries | this wiki | all |
Minutes and Progress Reports
| 2013 |
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| 2012 | |
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| 2011 |
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Get Involved!
Want to get involved in Firefox program/project management? Visit the Mozilla Stewards page and the Engineering Program Management role description page to get a sense of what's involved. And get in touch - via irc channel #pm or the dev-planning mailing list.