Webdev/Web Production

Web Production
Team Lead: Chris More	Mailing List: webprod@mozilla.com
We are the Web Productions team. We help Mozilla create compelling and innovative web products including www.mozilla.org, mozillians.org, affiliates.mozilla.org and many more!

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.

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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 manage:

• Mozilla.org
• Mozilla Careers
• Mozilla Reps
• Mozilla Blogs
• Firefox Affiliates
• Firefox Flicks
• Firefox 3.6 start page
• Mozillians
• Firefox OS Operator Self-Service (OSS)
• Firefox OS CRB

Tools and Services:

• Firefox About:Home Snippets
• Kanbanery (Task and backlog visualization)
• Scrum Bugs (Scrum/Agile management of Bugzilla)
• Mozilla Basket (Website to newsletter integration)
• SmartSheet (Timeline management)
• Google Analytics (Web analytics)
• Optimizely (A/B testing)

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.

A few people in our team are identified as having special expertise about a topic that we deal with, such as testing or localization. We call these people Champions, and you can read more information and see a list of the current champions on the Champions page.

Our Web Makers (in alphabetical order)

Mike Alexis Program Manager for Mozilla.org 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
Gareth Cull Web Analytics and Optimization Engineer Gareth is responsible for Google Analytics implementation and training for all Mozilla websites including A/B testing tools and methodologies. Contact Gareth	Alex Gibson Front-end Web Developer Alex is one of the primary front-end developers on mozilla.org. Contact Alex
Holly Habstritt UX Lead & Information Architect Holly performs research, developments and creates website content tests, and provides user experience expertise across all of our websites. 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 is a back-end developer across many of our campaign websites including about:home snippets. Contact Michael	Giorgos Logiotatidis Web Developer Giorgos is web developer on both Mozilla Reps and 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	Josh Mize Web Developer Josh is a back-end developer on mozilla.org and Mobile Partners. 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 Development Manager Ben manages of our web developers and also provides technical project management on some special projects. Contact Ben