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2. Meet the GitLab team
3. Organizational Structure
4. Working Groups
5. Dedicated Cross-Functional Working Group

On this page

• Attributes
• Additional Resources
• Strategy
  • Plan
    • Exit Criteria
• Project Management
  • How We Work
  • Epic Management
  • Status Updates
    • Key Review
    • Top Initiative Quarterly Meeting
• Roles and Responsibilities
  • Initiative DRIs
  • Functional Areas and DRIs
    • Function DRI Responsibilities
  • Dedicated Team DRIs

Attributes

Additional Resources

• GitLab Dedicated external webpage
• Product Category Direction
  • Limited Availability Roadmap
• Engineering Team
  • Project Management
• Internal Handbook
• Top-Level Initiative Epic(only accessible from within the company)
• Limited Availability Epic - main project epic (only accessible from within the company)
• Cross-Functional Limited Availability Requirements (only accessible from within the company)

Strategy

Plan

See Limited Availability Roadmap including milestones for cross-functional work.

Exit Criteria

The exit criteria for GitLab Dedicated Top Cross-Functional Initiative are the same as the exit criteria from Limited Availaility

Project Management

How We Work

The GitLab Dedicated Initiative Working Group follows the same processes as the GitLab Dedicated Engineering team from the Dedicated Engineering team page. This includes:

• Epic management
• Status updates
• Labels and usage

Epic Management

See epic management and hierarchy on Dedicated Team Page.

The Cross-Functional LA Requirements epic is a child epic of the GitLab Dedicated Top Level epic. This cross-functional epic is comprised of function-specific child epics managed by the DRI for that functional area. These functional child epics have sub-epics and/or issues representing groups of related tasks that are delivered in a specific phase from Limited Availability Roadmap.

Milestones for functional work from the Cross-Functional LA Requirements epic are included in Limited Availability Roadmap.

Status Updates

The GitLab Dedicated Initiative Working Group follows the status update process from Dedicated Engineering team page. The status updates that Functional DRIs make in their respective Functional Epics will incorporated in the status update cadence and used to update the status of the Cross-Functional epic and the Top-Level Initiative Epic.

In addition to the status process from Dedicated team page, the Dedicated initiative has additional status update requirements as a Top Cross-Functional initiative that the Initiative DRI is responsible for:

• Key Reviews
• Top Initiative Quarterly Meeting

Key Review

• Initiative DRI provides updates in Product Key Review as the Chief Product Officer is the executive sponsor of this initiative.
• The Product Key Review occurs twice per quarter.

Top Initiative Quarterly Meeting

• Top Initiative Quarterly Meeting occurs once per quarter to review initiative health, risks, and blockers.
• Initiative DRI provides current status for Dedicated during this meeting along with plan for the initiative.
• The Initiative DRI will provide a summary from the most recent update from the Top-Level Initiative Epic.
• The Initiative DRI will share a draft of the Quarterly Update with the Dedicated leadership team and Dedicated Executive Sponsor at least 3 business days before the scheduled presentation date order to gather feedback in order to add responses to the Top Initiatives agenda at least 1.5 days before Top Initiatives meeting.

Roles and Responsibilities

Initiative DRIs

1. Exec Sponsor: David DeSanto - Chief Product Officer
2. Initiative DRI: Ryan Wedmore - Director, Strategy & Operations
   • Working Group DRI responsibilities and Cross Functional Initiative DRI responsibilities
   • DRI for cross-functional initiative strategy, collaboration, and work streams
3. Engineering DRI: Marin Jankovski - Director of Infrastructure, Platforms
   • Overall DRI for Engineering, Infrastructure, and Engineering Strategy
4. Product DRI: Fabian Zimmer - Director of Product Management, SaaS Platforms
   • Overall DRI for SaaS Platform Product, Product Strategy, and Product Changes

Functional Areas and DRIs

Below are the functional areas involved in this Cross-Functional Initiative as well as the Functional DRI representing that functional area.

Functional DRIs are also mentioned at the top of the description of their function's child epics in the Cross-Functional LA Requirements epic per epic structure.

Function DRI Responsibilities

Please see Functional Lead on Working Group page.

Functional DRIs are responsible for maintaining their function's epics by following process mentioned in Epic Owner Responsibilities and Epic Structure.

Dedicated Team DRIs

Below are the specific areas of responsibility within the Dedicated team:

This table will be reviewed at the end of each month.