Program Management/Firefox/2012-Q4-Goals

Projects & Programs

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

Desktop

Social API

• Drive v1 of social api to completion with Fx17.
• Oversee landing of phase 1 multi-provider support in Fx18.

Performance

• Create performance plan

Games

• Drive WebAudio to land version 1 by end of quarter.
• Gather examples for Regression tests for Games related performance for desktop and mobile.
• Finish BananaBread Multiplayer by end of quarter for release early next year.
• Work towards a proper documentation strategy for Games related information.
• Maintain relationships with third parties while B2G is the focus.

Mobile

Web compatibility

• Complete documentation for testing and evangelism
• Find community owner for testing and evangelism
• Complete analysis of site issues

B2G

• Support B2G with reports/dashboards

Cross Product

Telemetry

• Plan and track Telemetry Q4 plan with metrics
  • Complete data validation
  • Minor functional improvements for the Telemetry dashboards
  • Performance improvements for the Telemetry dashboards
• Improve adoption rate from current 2% on release and nightly.
  • [DONE] Finalize enabled-by-default plan on dev channels
  • Land enabled-by-default on Aurora and Nightly channels
• Work with UX on new Telemetry promotion for consumer channels
• Complete privacy requirement - embed about:telemetry in product

Bugzilla Anthropology

• Release initial dashboards on previously difficult to answer questions
• Work with engineering team to determine priorities
• Work with metrics to get a public rest API available

General Team Goals

• Framework for driving projects
• Hire 1-2 additional PMs
• Hiring plan for 2013