Program Management/Firefox/2012-Q1-Goals

Projects & Programs

• PM Goals and projects should directly support highest engineering and product priorities.

Desktop

Minimal Impact Update

• [CARRY OVER] Oversee all pieces of Silent Update and changes for Add-On compatibility through release

Web Apps Integration

• Organize regular meeting and cross-team check-in.
• Keep wiki pages/lists updated with status.
• Track engineering pieces for integration.

Windows Metro

• Organize initial kickoff meeting.
• Track early stage tasks and coordination in wiki and bugzilla.
• Hire full time PM to oversee initiative.

Games

• Plan and organize Games Summit in Toronto.
• Oversee Project X port.
• Maintain and track list of platform changes that are discovered as a result of industry input and those needed to support the port.
• Gather a list of external industry contacts and contributors to help advise development.

Rapid Response Projects

• Provide rotating PM point for ongoing projects.
• PM assignee for Search Hijacking project.
• PM assignee for Blackhole project.

Mobile

• Ship Fennec Native project by end of Q1
  • Assemble and maintain a release checklist to track cross-functional activities throughout release (Sync, l10n, legal, privacy/security, amo)
  • Weekly status summaries
  • Organize and run the weekly mobile showcase.
• Plan for MWC
  • Capture MWC demo plan, schedule and HW requirements.
• Document clear Beta and Release shipping criteria for Native Fennec 1.0.
• Initial plan for Native Fennec 12, 13 and 14

Cross Product

Crashkill

• Track Socorro Q1 goals - features/bugs we would like to see implemented in Q1 to support the mandate of crashkill and needs in engineering
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/Plan/Priorities#Q1.2F2012
• Dashboard for managing crash landscape - showing incoming crash rate, fixes crash rate, per component breakdown, top crashes, reproducible crashes and release to release comparisons
• Triage and cleanup of crash sub lists
  • Explosive crashes
  • Plugin crashes
• Clear list of quality criteria for stability program management and tracking

Telemetry

• (TBD)

Responsiveness

• Organize and run regular Snappy meetings.
• Track responsiveness initiatives targeted for Q1 through completion.
  • Asa has a list of 3 projects
  • Taras has another list of 4-5 projects

Process

• Detailed analysis of how we use bugzilla within engineering - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/BugzillaInterviews
  • Complete interviews and reports - all data published on the wiki.
  • Presentation summarizing the results
  • Clear set of first recommendations to implement for better bug management
  • Identify 2 programs/projects to pilot recommendations

Other

• Hire 2 more program/project managers

Non Goals

• List of projects that have requested PM help but are not on the list or staffed...
  • Browser ID
  • Taking a picture feature
  • Sync (help with integration/tracking in general)
  • Memshrink