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

Developers review milestones' bug backlog with Product and adjust according to developer input - implementation details, resources, risk, effort, etc.

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)