Program Management/Firefox/2011-Q4-Goals

Projects

Electrolysis

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

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.

Quality

• Establish seed of quality program starting with performance

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

Telemetry

• Work with engineering teams to identify and implement probes for top three Blizzard questions

Process

• Help revamp the current meeting schedule (joint goal with Christian)

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