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We are the Web Productions team we work with Mozilla's Developer Engagement team. Do you have a question and don't know who to ask? Come chat with us at #webprod on IRC or e-mail the team. Read below to learn more about what we do and who we are.

What

To help Mozilla create compelling and innovative web products.

• Provide technical project management for web products.
• Create world-class user-facing websites, applications, and web-based campaigns.
• Helping other teams achieve their web-related goals as internal consultants and technical experts.
• Foster communication between product owners and all technical teams involved.
• Document web development processes and best practices for internal and external teams.
• Removing blockers and keeping momentum in projects.
• Collaborate with the greater Web Development community.

The following are some of the properties and application that we technically manage and develop for:

• Mozilla.org
• Firefox Affiliates
• Firefox About:Home Snippets
• Mozilla Careers
• Mozilla Reps
• Mozilla Blogs
• Firefox 3.6 start page
• Mozilla Labs
• Mozillians
• Web Analytics (Google Analytics and WebTrends) across Mozilla
• Scrum Bugs

Why

Why do we need a team focused on building websites?

• Ensure consistency, standardization, and quality of our websites.
• Manage scope and timeline to keep projects on track and lean.
• Improve efficiency in all aspects of the project life cycle.
• Prioritizing tasks and projects based on goals that help "move the needle".
• Making "pretty" designs a web reality.
• Baking continuous improvement into everything we do.

Who

Our technical project managers (TPM) are official called Web Product Engineers (WPE) and instead of engineering code, they engineer and manage the entire life cycle of a technical web project. They are project managers that have experience in web development, project management, people management, and helping keep project teams happy and productive.

We have both front-end and back-end engineers that develop and implement the code that runs the web properties that we manage. We also now have a full-time Information Architecture and UX designer on the team that will help ensure that what we do on the web is focused on the user and always improving.

Our Web Makers (in alphabetical order)

Mike Alexis Websites Program Manager Mike is responsible for collaborating and building relationships between our primary stakeholders and helping flesh out the ideation phase of a project. Contact Mike	Jennifer Bertsch Product Manager, Websites Jen is responsible for Mozilla's website strategy and product road map. Contact Jennifer
Craig Cook Web Developer Craig is a HTML5, CSS, WordPress wizard! Contact Craig	Justin Crawford Web Product Engineer Justin is a technical project manager with a background in web development. Contact Justin
Holly Habstritt Information Architecture and User Experience Design Contact Holly	Andrei Hajdukewycz Web Developer Andrei is front and back end developer with experience on Mozilla.org. Contact Andrei
Michael Kelly Web Developer Michael does mainly back-end development and also has strong abilities in HTML5 gaming. Contact Michael	Giorgos Logiotatidis Web Developer Giorgos is a web developer that built Mozilla Reps and is currently the lead developer on Mozillians. Contact Giorgos
Paul McLanahan Web Developer Paul is a back-end developer and is the creator of the wildly successful Scrumbugs tool that multiple Mozilla teams use to manage their project. Contact Paul	Chris More Web Productions Manager Chris is responsible for the process, standards and management of the Web Productions Team and building relationship throughout the organization for teams that need Web Development services. Contact Chris
Benjamin Sternthal Web Product Engineer Ben is a technical project manager with many years of experience in project management and web development consulting. Contact Ben

How

There is order in the chaos! We are continually creating and revising our documentation and best practices. Do you have feedback? Let us know!

• Web Productions Roles and Terminology
• Project Check-In Meetings
• Web Productions Process (outdated -- needed totally refreshed!)