Program Management/Firefox/2013-Q4-Goals

Candice

Chris

  • JS: Increase visibility of JS team progress with a 12-month roadmap, monthly status reports for management, and a more informative JS home page on wiki.mo.
  • e10s: Work with vlad/billm/dvander to create a Q4/Q1 roadmap, drive dependencies on other teams, and share monthly status reports.
  • WBGP (Tom's Hardware's Web Browser Grand Prix): Work with naveed/jandem to track and optimize WBGP benchmark performance.
  • Geolocation: Complete Legal and Privacy reviews so the project can announce itself and work with Mozillian and WiFi stumbling communities.
  • Developer Productivity: Gather productivity suggestions, create a prioritized list of actionable items, and contact teams that would implement the highest priority items.
  • Personal Development: TBD

Dietrich

  • Ensure we're on the road to a performance-defensive environment for Firefox OS. (Need more detail here)
  • Do a "people" post, introducing the players and teams involved in FxOS performance.
  • All FxOS functional teams using team keywords and target milestones for identification of current work (shared with all other FxOS EPMs).
  • Finish MVP items for http://people.mozilla.org/~dietrich/board/board.html.
  • Complete the contribution path metrics

Erin

  • Achieve M1 goals for Shumway, get it landed into Nightly (done), and get roadmap together for M2 (desktop, mobile, games); roll engineering status into weekly platform meeting
  • UX plan/build shared vision for Shumway
  • Evaluate needs for Mobile platform team (blassey) and come up with a gameplan/workflow
  • Start to help maire out with Web Audio
  • Start to publish weekly status via blog

KaiRo

  • Determine overall efficiency of the stability program (via bug 915438)
  • Establish short- and long-term goals and priorities for stability based on Stability Week results
  • Make sure basic needs for B2G analysis are met in Socorro and partner processes follow our stability analysis requirements
  • Expand personal PM role and skills (strategic planning, communication)
  • Make FHR into an actual project, figure out its PM needs and next steps to take there

Lawrence

  • Increase visibility of mobile Web compat project
  • Increase non performance team participation in performance program (layout, network, b2g perf, etc.)
  • Wrap up Summit with debriefs and work with facilitators to publish next steps
  • Complete Q4 staff related activities (reviews, hiring, new reqs) for program management and mobile Web compat teams
  • Learn about story structure and how to tell an effective story (follow-up from Tribe session #3)

Marco

  • Fully ramp up on project management responsibilities for Games initiative to free up Martin for Product/BD work.
  • Make sure team has all project support necessary for releasing Metro on Firefox 27 Aurora on October 29 and uplift to Beta on Dec 10.
  • Craft a presentation on how we adapted scrum to ship Metro, lessons learned, reflections from the team/experience.

Martin

  • Transition games related Project Management to Marco Mucci.
    • Ensure that game triage is adapted to the needs of shipped products.
    • Ensure that game benchmarking and bug progress reports are delivered weekly.
  • Transition game porting management to Bill Walker's team.
  • Deliver a plan for games team that ends at GDC 2014 (End of Q1 2014).
  • Ensure games documentation team is established and self driven.
  • Learn more about Shader Programming.
  • Define involvement in Game Center initiative and/or platform product management.

Michael

Sheila

  • Hire and onboard 2 new program/project managers.
  • Improve visibility and PR for the Engineering Program/Project team activities.
  • Learn all about Webmaker.