MDN/Development Process
Meetings
Product Planning
Frequency
Bi-weekly
Attendees
- Stakeholders
- Product
- Developers
- QA (optional?)
Agenda
During product planning meetings we set the immediate product goals and objectives. We introduce new features, discuss enhancements to existing features, review new and outstanding bugs, and prioritize. Product planning meetings set the backlog - we create bugs, update bugs, assign milestones to bugs, remove milestones from bugs.
Output
Accurate bugzilla bugs and milestones
Development Planning
Frequency
Weekly
Attendees
- Product
- Developers
- QA (optional?)
- IT (optional)
Agenda
Development planning meetings synchronize product & development efforts. Developers review the milestones' backlog with Product and adjust according to developer input - implementation details, resources, risk, effort, etc.
Retro
- Celebrate all code pushes & give kudos
- Look back at the last "sprint" - what worked, what didn't, and what should we improve?
Planning
- For each active milestone, review outstanding bugs and plan new bugs. Discuss implementation details with Product.
Roadmap
Briefly (5m) discuss upcoming non-immediate work so no-one is surprised by anything.
Output
Developer + Product-approved bugzilla bugs for immediately active milestone(s)
Standup
Standup is a very short (5-10m) daily meeting to make sure everyone is on the same page.
Frequency
Daily
Attendees
- Developers
- Product
Agenda
Round-robin: What I did yesterday. What I'm doing today. Blockers, if any.
Bugs
Status Flow
Bugs should typically flow thru the team:
- Product & QA & Dev
- (Unconfirmed) -> New
- Dev
- Assigned -> Resolved:Fixed
- QA
- Resolved:Fixed -> Reopened or Verified:Fixed -> Closed
Severity
- Blocker - cannot push milestone without fixing this bug
- (e.g., security, total loss of functionality)
- Critical - only okay to push Blockers in front of this bug
- (e.g., major function broken but workaround in place)
- Major - this bug is part of the major focus of the milestone
- (e.g., Demo Studio for 0.9.3)
- Normal, etc. - Nice-to-have, work on between other bugs
- (e.g., style changes, annoyances)