Program Management/Firefox/2012-Q1-Goals

Projects & Programs

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

Desktop

Minimal Impact Update

• [DEFER] Oversee all pieces of Silent Update through release
  • Windows security (UAC) landed in FF12, background updates will either land in 1Q or in the first week of 2Q
• [DONE] Oversee Add-On compatibility through release

Web Apps Integration

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

Windows Metro

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

Games

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

Responsiveness

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

Rapid Response Projects

• [DONE] Provide rotating PM point for ongoing projects.
• [DONE] PM assignee for Search Hijacking project.
  • Actual project got pushed out.
• [DROPPED] PM assignee for Blackhole project.

Mobile

• [AT RISK] Ship Fennec Native project by end of Q1
  • [DONE] 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.
• [DONE] Plan for MWC
  • Capture MWC demo plan, schedule and HW requirements.
• [DONE] Document clear Beta and Release shipping criteria for Native Fennec 1.0.
• [DEFER] Initial plan for Native Fennec 12, 13 and 14

Cross Product

Crashkill

• [DONE] 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
• [DEFER] Dashboard for managing crash landscape - showing incoming crash rate, fixes crash rate, per component breakdown, top crashes, reproducible crashes and release to release comparisons
• [DONE] Triage and cleanup of crash sub lists
  • Reproducible crashes
  • Plugin crashes
• [DONE] Clear list of quality criteria for stability program management and tracking

Telemetry

• [DEFER] Improve adoption rate from current 2% on release and nightly.
• [DONE] Enable Telemetry on mobile native UI
• [DEFER] Improve Telemetry adoption on mobile
• [DONE] Improve consumability of Telemetry front-end (dashboard)
  • Dashboard released publicly with improved short URL. Further work required in Q2.

Process

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

Other

• [DEFER] Hire 2 more program/project managers
• [DONE] Drive mediawiki-bugzilla through to deployment

Stuff not included

• 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
  • New UI