Program Management/Firefox/2012-Q1-Goals

Projects & Programs

Desktop

• Support team in highest priority initiatives for Q1

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 Q1
  • Follow through all pieces of silent update and add-on compatibility changes through release.

Web Apps Integration

• Attend regular coordination meetings
• Keep wiki pages/lists updated with status

Windows Metro=

• Manage early stage project kickoff tasks and coordination
• Hire full time PM to oversee initiative

Cross Product

Crashkill

• 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
• Dashboard for managing crash landscape - incoming crash rate, fixes crash rate, per component breakdown and release to release comparison
• Triage and clean up of crash sub list and ongoing triage
  • Explosive crash list
  • Plugin crash list
• Clear list of quality criteria for stability program management and tracking

Telemetry

• (TBD)

Games

• Plan and organize Games Summit

Process

• Detailed analysis of how we use bugzilla within engineering - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/BugzillaInterviews
  • Complete interviews and reports
  • Presentation of results
  • Clear set of recommendations to implement for moving forward
  • Start piloting recommendations
  • Dashboard for measuring progress

General Program Management

• [MISSED] Develop initial template/tool for managing programs consistently
• [DONE] Elaborate program management related material (wiki) and continue to educate engineering teams about pm