Program Management/Firefox/2014-Q2-Goals

Candice

• Create burndown for 2.0 and 2.1 features in conjunction with captured team velocity and sprint metrics
• Socialize and capture sprint metrics from Productivity and Systems-Frontend
• Start weekly sprint report for Productivity and Systems-Frontend for increased visibility and communication
• Assist and share estimation best practices with other teams
• Improve dependency tracking and communication with other EPMs via new scrum of scrums in weekly sync

Chris

• JS: Define and implement an agile planning process for the JS team's 2014 roadmap.
• WBGP: Reboot benchmark automation project and find an engineer to own it.
• e10s: Take e10s to the next level! Work with a new engineering manager to plan a development roadmap and increase testing (from dogfooding and QA test days). Blog about e10s.
• Shumway: Drive M2 and M3 milestones towards enabling Shumway on Nightly channel (for Flash banner ads).
• Productivity: Work with Taras to reduce scope of my Developer Productivity investigation. Blog about Developer Productivity. Delegate subprojects to other people?
• Personal: TBD

Erin

• Continue to absorb information about and create structure for Geolocation team so they can successfully deliver MLS for FxOS
• Manage risk around Find My Device and ensure it gets to market successfully in v2.0
• Work with Sheila and Lawrence to help refine Firefox OS program communications
• Transition Firefox for Android to Jenn
• Pick up EPM support for games
• Help get Rust baseline and set them up for ongoing schedule tracking
• No new personal goal except to continue to refine time management and create more efficiency on my part; document lessons learned on how to successfully and smoothly transition projects

Jenn

• Work with Marco to further evolve the Desktop scrum process (splitting teams, improvements in estimation, planning, metrics etc...)
• Work to design and implement a more useful dashboard for the Desktop scrum process
• Work with Marco and Lawrence to define requirements and plan for a new backlog and iteration management tool (or tool improvements)
• Document the Desktop scrum process, and associated procedures for future reference of new team members (and other teams wishing to adopt the process)
• Work with Erin to transition Firefox for Android
• Learn Mediawiki Markup syntax

Lawrence

• Come up to speed on release management activities and state
  • Much more detail on release management Q2 goals
• Create Web compat volunteer onboarding plan
  • Publish Web compat role description in support of volunteer onboarding
• Work with Marco and Jenn to stand up remaining pieces of the Firefox Desktop process
  • triage, product pitch meeting, demo session, backlog management tool
• Work with Kyle and Sheila to create B2G dashboards to support engineering and QA activities
• Create additional Manager Hacking sessions on finance, legal, and diversity.
• Evaluate productivity survey responses and determine projects and next steps.

Marco

• [DONE] Transition Trial Desktop planning group into three permanent planning groups.
• [DONE] Implement median velocity and velocity range for use in iteration planning.
• [DONE] Establish point based release forecasts based on team velocity range.

Martin

• Work with games team to establish solid QA and documention now that tools are shipping.
• Work with platform team to release SIMD, Shared Array Buffer, and GGC.
• Continue to push perfy project on benchmarking, find new resource for it.
• Monitor and support first shipping products using WebGL+asm.js.
• Monitor and support first tool makers shipping WebGL+asm.js.
• Work with BD to create a narrative to get more games onto FirefoxOS.
• Clarify personal path forward in Mozilla.

Michael

• Deliver FxOS Branding Certification v2 (v1 is status quo using existing test suites)
• Work on OWDCRB TWG process and test suites
• Foxtrot program deliverables

Sheila

• Help create a set of operational dashboards for monitoring FirefoxOS progress and activities.
• Revive the weekly FirefoxOS status report.
• Revive the all Mozilla Project/Program meet-up.
• Become involved in a Mozilla initiative outside of Engineering.

Shell

• work with Kyle to create informative visuals on project progress burndown down requirements doc for project and by User Story
• work with teams to on-board, through differences across tracking (different timing, mark-ups)
• document marking up bugs - trying to find common ground
• update media/webRTC wiki following some of Hema and Candice's styles
• weekly status updates on webRTC, to predict early what can land for Fx32
• EPM webRTC delivery across teams and partners
• Determine what Hema needs from EPM
• Reach out to other EPM's on other teams to know how i can collaborate better as a team