Product sections, stages, groups, and categories

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• Interfaces
• Hierarchy
  • Naming
  • More Details
  • Solutions
  • Capabilities
  • Layers
• Changes
  • Examples
• DevOps Stages
  • Dev section
    • Manage stage
      • Access group
      • Compliance group
      • Import group
      • Analytics group
    • Plan stage
      • Project Management group
      • Portfolio Management group
      • Certify group
    • Create stage
      • Source Code group
      • Knowledge group
      • Static Site Editor group
      • Editor group
      • Gitaly group
      • Gitter group
      • Ecosystem group
  • Ops section
    • Verify stage
      • Continuous Integration group
      • Runner group
      • Testing group
    • Package stage
      • Package group
    • Release stage
      • Progressive Delivery group
      • Release Management group
    • Configure stage
      • Configure group
    • Monitor stage
      • APM group
      • Health group
  • Secure & Defend section
    • Secure stage
      • Static Analysis group
      • Dynamic Analysis group
      • Composition Analysis group
      • Fuzz Testing group
      • Vulnerability Research group
    • Defend stage
      • Container Security group
      • Threat Insights group
  • Growth section
    • Growth stage
      • Acquisition group
      • Conversion group
      • Expansion group
      • Retention group
      • Fulfillment group
      • Telemetry group
  • Enablement section
    • Enablement stage
      • Distribution group
      • Geo group
      • Memory group
      • Global Search group
      • Database group
• Possible future Stages
• Maturity
• Solutions
• Other functionality
  • Other functionality in Plan stage
  • Other functionality in Create stage
    • Source Code group
  • Other functionality in Verify
  • Other functionality in Secure stage
    • Composition Analysis group
  • Other functionality in Defend stage
    • Threat Insights group
  • Other functionality in Monitor stage
    • APM group
    • Health group
  • Shared functionality

Interfaces

We want intuitive interfaces both within the company and with the wider community. This makes it more efficient for everyone to contribute or to get a question answered. Therefore, the following interfaces are based on the product categories defined on this page:

• Home page
• Product page
• Product Features
• Pricing page
• DevOps Lifecycle
• DevOps Tools
• Product Direction
• Stage visions
• Documentation
• Engineering Engineering Manager/Developer/Designer titles, their expertise, and department, and team names.
• Product manager responsibilities which are detailed on this page
• Our pitch deck, the slides that we use to describe the company
• Strategic marketing specializations

Hierarchy

The categories form a hierarchy:

1. Sections: Are a collection of stages. We attempt to align these logically along common workflows like Dev, Sec and Ops. Sections are maintained in data/sections.yml.
2. Stages: Stages start with the 7 loop stages, then add Manage, Secure, and Defend to get the 10 (DevOps) value stages, and then add the Growth and Enablement team stages. Values stages are what we all talk about in our marketing. Stages are maintained in data/stages.yml. Each stage has a corresponding devops::<stage> label under the gitlab-org group.
3. Group: A stage has one or more groups. Groups are maintained in data/stages.yml. Each group has a corresponding group::<group> label under the gitlab-org group.
4. Categories: A group has one or more categories. Categories are high-level capabilities that may be a standalone product at another company. e.g. Portfolio Management. To the extent possible we should map categories to vendor categories defined by analysts. There are a maximum of 8 high-level categories per stage to ensure we can display this on our website and pitch deck. (Categories that do not show up on marketing pages show up here in italics and do not count toward this limit.) There may need to be fewer categories, or shorter category names, if the aggregate number of lines when rendered would exceed 13 lines, when accounting for category names to word-wrap, which occurs at approximately 15 characters. Categories are maintained in data/categories.yml. Each category has a corresponding Category:<Category> label under the gitlab-org group.
5. Features: Small, discrete functionalities. e.g. Issue weights. Some common features are listed within parentheses to facilitate finding responsible PMs by keyword. Features are maintained in data/features.yml. It's recommended to associate feature labels to a category or a group with feature_labels in the data/categories.yml or data/stages.yml.

Notes:

• Groups may have scope as large as all categories in a stage, or as small as a single category within a stage, but most will form part of a stage and have a few categories in them.
• Stage, group, category, and feature labels are used by the automated triage operation "Stage and group labels inference from category labels".
• We don't move categories based on capacity. We put the categories in the stages where they logically fit, from a customer perspective. If something is important and the right group doesn't have capacity for it, we adjust the hiring plan for that group, or do global optimizations to get there faster.
• We don't have silos. If one group needs something in a category that is owned by another group, go ahead and contribute it.

Naming

Anytime one hierarchy level's scope is the same as the one above or below it, they can share the same name.

For groups that have two or more categories, but not all categories in a stage, the group name must be a unique word or a summation of the categories they cover. For such groups, their name should be written as "Stage:Group" when the writer wants to give extra context. This can be useful in email signatures, job titles, and other communications. E.g. "Monitor:Health" rather than "Monitor Health" or "Monitor, Health."

More Details

Every category listed on this page must have a link to a direction page. Categories may also have documentation and marketing page links. When linking to a category using the category name as the anchor text (e.g. from the chart on the homepage) you should use the URLs in the following hirearchy:

Marketing product page > docs page > direction page

E.g Link the marketing page. If there's no marketing page, link to the docs. If there's no docs, link to the direction page.

Solutions

Solutions can consist of multiple categories as defined on this page, but there are also other ones, for example industry verticals. Solutions typically represent a customer challenge, how GitLab capabilities come together to meet that challenge, and business benefits of using our solution.

Capabilities

Capabilities can refer to stages, categories, or features, but not solutions.

Layers

Adding more layers to the hierarchy would give it more fidelity but would hurt usability in the following ways:

1. Harder to keep the interfaces up to date.
2. Harder to automatically update things.
3. Harder to train and test people.
4. Harder to display more levels.
5. Harder to reason, falsify, and talk about it.
6. Harder to define what level something should be in.
7. Harder to keep this page up to date.

We use this hierarchy to express our organizational structure within the Product and Engineering organizations. Doing so serves the goals of:

• Making our groups externally recognizable as part of the DevOps lifecycle so that stakeholders can easily understand what teams might perform certain work
• Ensuring that internally we keep groups to a reasonable number of stable counterparts As a result, it is considered an anti-pattern to how we've organized for categories to move between groups out of concern for available capacity.

When designing the hierarchy, the number of sections should be kept small and only grow as the company needs to re-organize for span-of-control reasons. i.e. each section corresponds to a Director of Engineering and a Director of Product, so it's an expensive add. For stages, the DevOps loop stages should not be changed at all, as they're determined from an external source. At some point we may change to a different established bucketing, or create our own, but that will involve a serious cross-functional conversation. While the additional value stages are our own construct, the loop and value stages combined are the primary stages we talk about in our marketing, sales, etc. and they shouldn't be changed lightly. The other stages have more flexibility as they're not currently marketed in any way, however we should still strive to keep them as minimal as possible. Proliferation of a large number of stages makes the product surface area harder to reason about and communicate if/when we decide to market that surface area. As such, they're tied 1:1 with sections so they're the minimal number of stages that fit within our organizational structure. e.g. Growth was a single group under Enablment until we decided to add a Director layer for Growth; then it was promoted to a section with specialized groups under it. The various buckets under each of the non-DevOps stages are captured as different groups. Groups are also a non-marketing construct, so we expand the number of groups as needed for organizational purposes. Each group usually corresponds to a backend engineering manager and a product manager, so it's also an expensive add and we don't create groups just for a cleaner hierarchy; it has to be justified from a span-of-control perspective or limits to what one product manager can handle.

Changes

The impact of changes to stages and groups is felt across the company. Merge requests with changes to stages and groups and significant changes to categories need to be created, approved, and/or merged by each of the below:

1. EVP of Product
2. VP of Product Strategy
3. The Director of Product relevant to the stage group(s)
4. The Director of Engineering relevant to the stage group(s)
5. CEO

The following people need to be on the merge request so they stay informed:

1. EVP of Engineering
2. Senior Director of Development
3. Director of Quality Engineering
4. Engineering Productivity (by @ mentioning @gl-quality/eng-prod)
5. The Product Marketing Manager relevant to the stage group(s)

After approval and before merging, obtain final confirmation from the Engineering Manager for Quality Engineering before proceeding with changes that:

• Adds a new category, group or stage
• Moves an existing category to a new or existing group
• Moves an existing group to a new or existing stage
• Renames a group or stage
• Deletes a group or stage

This is to ensure that GitLab Bot auto-labeling can be updated prior to the change, which can be disruptive if missed.

Examples

Because it helps to be specific about what is a significant change and what should trigger the above approval process, below are two non-exhaustive lists of examples that would and would not, respectively, require approval.

Changes that require the above approvers include:

• Changes to a stage, group, or category name
• Removal or addition of a stage, group, or category

Changes that require approval only from the relevant Product Director include:

• Changing a category maturity date
• Changes to section or group member lists
• Changes to a category vision page

DevOps Stages

Dev section

Product: Eric Brinkman | Development: Tim Zallmann | Design: Taurie Davis, Marcel van Remmerden (Interim), Mike Long | Support: Shaun McCann | Product Marketing: John Jeremiah | Quality: Ramya Authappan | Content Marketing: Erica Lindberg | Technical Writing: Mike Lewis | Analyst Relations: Ryan Ragozzine | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez

Manage stage

Group Product Manager: Jeremy Watson

Access group

Product Manager: Melissa Ushakov | Product Marketing Manager: Cormac Foster | Support: Blair Lunceford | Backend Engineering Manager: Liam McAndrew | Frontend Engineering Manager: Dennis Tang | Software Engineer in Test: Sanad Liaquat | Backend Engineering: Drew Blessing, Liam McAndrew, James Edwards-Jones, Alex Pooley, Imre Farkas, Manoj M J, Sebastián Arcila-Valenzuela, Małgorzata Ksionek | Frontend Engineering: Dennis Tang, Peter Hegman | Product Design Manager: Mike Long | UX Researcher: Katherine Okpara | Product Designer: Daniel Mora | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Mike Jang | Application Security Engineer: Jeremy Matos | Customer Success: Yolanda Feldstein, Adrian Waters | Internal Customers: Support Department (TBD), Security Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez

• Authentication and Authorization Complete | Documentation • Direction Page
• Subgroups Complete | Documentation • Direction Page
• Users | Documentation • Direction Page

Compliance group

Product Manager: Matt Gonzales | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Dan Jensen | Frontend Engineering Manager: Dennis Tang | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: Aishwarya Subramanian, Dan Jensen, Tan Le, Max Woolf | Frontend Engineering: Dennis Tang, Jiaan Louw, Robert Hunt | Product Design Manager: Mike Long | UX Researcher: Katherine Okpara | Product Designer: Daniel Mora (Interim) | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Mike Jang | Application Security Engineer: Ron Chan | Customer Success: Yolanda Feldstein, Adrian Waters | Internal Customers: Support Department (TBD), Security Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez

• Audit Events Viable | Documentation • Direction Page
• Audit Reports Planned 2020 | Direction Page
• Compliance Management New in 2020 | Documentation • Direction Page

Import group

Product Manager: Haris Delalić | Product Marketing Manager: Cormac Foster | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Liam McAndrew | Frontend Engineering Manager: Dennis Tang | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: Liam McAndrew, George Koltsov, Josianne Hyson, Kassio Borges | Frontend Engineering: Dennis Tang, Illya Klymov | Product Design Manager: Mike Long | UX Researcher: Katherine Okpara | Product Designer: Amanda Hughes | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Mike Jang | Application Security Engineer: Ron Chan | Customer Success: Yolanda Feldstein, Adrian Waters | Internal Customers: Support Department (TBD), Product Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez

• Importers | Documentation • Direction Page
• Internationalization | Documentation • Direction Page
• Templates | Documentation • Direction Page

Analytics group

Product Manager: John-Mason Shackelford | Product Marketing Manager: Cormac Foster | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Dan Jensen | Frontend Engineering Manager: Martin Wortschack (Interim) | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: Adam Hegyi, Magdalena Frankiewicz, Pavel Shutsin, Dan Jensen | Frontend Engineering: Martin Wortschack, Brandon Labuschagne, Michael L., Ezekiel Kigbo | Product Design Manager: Mike Long | UX Researcher: Katherine Okpara | Product Designer: Nick Post | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Mike Jang | Application Security Engineer: Ron Chan | Customer Success: Yolanda Feldstein, Adrian Waters | Internal Customers: Engineering Department (TBD), Product Department (TBD), Quality Department (TBD), Development Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez

• DevOps Reports Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page
• Planning Analytics Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page
• Code Analytics New in 2020 | Documentation • Direction Page
• Value Stream Management Minimal | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page

Plan stage

Group Product Manager: Justin Farris

Project Management group

Handbook | Product Manager: Gabe Weaver | Product Marketing Manager: Cormac Foster | Support: Ben Prescott | Backend Engineering Manager: John Hope (Interim) | Frontend Engineering Manager: Donald Cook | Software Engineer in Test: Désirée Chevalier | Backend Engineering: Brett Walker, Mario de la Ossa, Patrick Derichs, Heinrich Lee Yu, Alexandru Croitor, Jake Lear | Frontend Engineering: Donald Cook, Kushal Pandya, Simon Knox, Eulyeon K., Rajat Jain, Scott Stern, Coung Ngo, Florie Guibert, Axel García | Product Design Manager: Mike Long | UX Researcher: Katherine Okpara | Product Designer: Holly Reynolds | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski | Application Security Engineer: Costel Maxim | Customer Success: Christiaan Conover, Edmond Chan | Internal Customers: Engineering Department (TBD), Product Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez

• Issue Tracking Complete | Documentation • Direction Page
• Kanban Boards Viable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page
• Time Tracking Viable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page
• Jira Importer New in 2020 | Documentation • Direction Page

Portfolio Management group

Handbook | Product Manager: Keanon O'Keefe | Product Marketing Manager: Cormac Foster | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: John Hope | Frontend Engineering Manager: Donald Cook | Software Engineer in Test: Désirée Chevalier | Backend Engineering: Felipe Artur, Jarka Košanová, Jan Provaznik, Charlie Ablett, Eugenia Grieff, John Hope | Frontend Engineering: Donald Cook, Kushal Pandya, Simon Knox, Eulyeon K., Rajat Jain, Scott Stern, Coung Ngo, Florie Guibert, Axel García | Product Design Manager: Mike Long | UX Researcher: Katherine Okpara | Product Designer: Alexis Ginsberg | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski | Application Security Engineer: Costel Maxim | Customer Success: Christiaan Conover, Edmond Chan | Internal Customers: Engineering Department (TBD), Product Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez

• Epics Viable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page
• Roadmaps Minimal | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page

Certify group

Handbook | Product Manager: Mark Wood | Product Marketing Manager: Cormac Foster | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: John Hope | Frontend Engineering Manager: Donald Cook | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: Felipe Artur, Jarka Košanová, Jan Provaznik, Charlie Ablett, Eugenia Grieff, John Hope | Frontend Engineering: Donald Cook, Kushal Pandya, Simon Knox, Eulyeon K., Rajat Jain, Scott Stern, Coung Ngo, Florie Guibert, Axel García | Product Design Manager: Mike Long | UX Researcher: Katherine Okpara | Product Designer: Nick Brandt | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski | Application Security Engineer: Costel Maxim | Customer Success: Christiaan Conover, Edmond Chan | Internal Customers: Quality Department (TBD), Support Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez

• Requirements Management New in 2020 | Documentation • Direction Page
• Quality Management Planned 2020 | Direction Page
• Service Desk Viable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page

Create stage

Group Product Manager: James Ramsay

Source Code group

Handbook | Product Manager: Daniel Gruesso | Product Marketing Manager: Jordi Mon | Support: DeAndre Harris | Backend Engineering Manager: Michelle Gill | Frontend Engineering Manager: André Luís | Software Engineer in Test: Mark Lapierre | Backend Engineering: Nick Thomas, Patrick Bajao, Igor Drozdov, Kerri Miller, Michelle Gill, Robert May, David Sincheol Kim, Gary Holtz, Marc Shaw | Frontend Engineering: André Luís, Phil Hughes, Samantha Ming, Justin Boyson, Thomas Randolph | Product Design Manager: Marcel van Remmerden (Interim) | UX Researcher: Katherine Okpara | Product Designer: Pedro Moreira da Silva | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Marcia Ramos | Application Security Engineer: Juan Broullon | Customer Success: Sophie Pouliquen, Simon Mansfield | Internal Customers: Engineering Department (TBD), Marketing Department (TBD), Product Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez

• Source Code Management Lovable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page
• Code Review Lovable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page

Knowledge group

Handbook | Product Manager: Christen Dybenko | Product Marketing Manager: Jordi Mon | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Darva Satcher | Frontend Engineering Manager: [Roman Kuba] | Software Engineer in Test: Tomislav Nikić | Backend Engineering: Luke Duncalfe, Markus Koller, Darva Satcher, Alex Kalderimis | Frontend Engineering: Natalia Tepluhina, Tom Quirk, Roman Kuba | Product Design Manager: Marcel van Remmerden (Interim) | UX Researcher: Katherine Okpara | Product Designer: Matthew Nearents | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Marcia Ramos | Application Security Engineer: Juan Broullon | Customer Success: Sophie Pouliquen, Simon Mansfield | Internal Customer: UX Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez

• Design Management Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page
• Wiki Viable | Documentation • Direction Page

Static Site Editor group

Handbook | Product Manager: Eric Schurter | Product Marketing Manager: Jordi Mon | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Jean du Plessis | Frontend Engineering Manager: Jean du Plessis | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Product Design Manager: Marcel van Remmerden (Interim) | UX Researcher: Katherine Okpara | Product Designer: [Michael Le] | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Marcia Ramos | Application Security Engineer: Juan Broullon | Customer Success: Sophie Pouliquen, Simon Mansfield | Internal Customers: Marketing Department (TBD), Engineering Department (TBD), Finance Department (TBD), People Operations (TBD), Product Department (TBD), Sales Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez

• Static Site Editor New in 2020 | Documentation • Direction Page
• GitLab Handbook | Documentation • Direction Page
• GitLab Documentation Site Complete | Documentation • Direction Page

Editor group

Handbook | Product Manager: Kai Armstrong | Product Marketing Manager: Jordi Mon | Support: John Long | Backend Engineering Manager: Darva Satcher | Frontend Engineering Manager: [Roman Kuba] | Software Engineer in Test: Anastasia McDonald | Backend Engineering: Francisco Javier López, Mark Chao, Dibyadarshi Dash, Amparo Luna, Darva Satcher, Vijay Hawoldar | Frontend Engineering: Paul Slaughter, Denys Mishunov, Himanshu Kapoor, Tomas Vik, Roman Kuba | Product Design Manager: Marcel van Remmerden (Interim) | UX Researcher: Katherine Okpara | Product Designer: Mike Nichols | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Marcia Ramos | Application Security Engineer: Juan Broullon | Customer Success: Sophie Pouliquen, Simon Mansfield | Internal Customers: Marketing Department (TBD), Engineering Department (TBD), Finance Department (TBD), People Operations (TBD), Product Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez

• Web IDE Viable | Documentation • Direction Page
• Snippets Viable | Documentation • Direction Page
• Live Preview Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page
• Editor Extension New in 2020 | Documentation • Direction Page

Gitaly group

Product Manager: James Ramsay | Support: Will Chandler | Backend Engineering Manager: [Zeger-Jan van de Weg] | Software Engineers in Test: Mark Lapierre, Tomislav Nikić | Technical Writer: Evan Read | Application Security Engineer: Kaung Htet Aung | Customer Success: Sophie Pouliquen, Simon Mansfield | Internal Customers: Quality Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez

• Gitaly | Documentation • Direction Page

Gitter group

Product Manager: Eric Schurter | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Tim Z (Interim) | Frontend Engineering Manager: Tim Z (Interim) | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Product Design Manager: Marcel van Remmerden (Interim) | UX Researcher: Katherine Okpara | Product Designer: Matt Nearents (Interim) | Technical Writer: Evan Read | Application Security Engineer: Kaung Htet Aung | Customer Success: Sophie Pouliquen, Simon Mansfield | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez

• Gitter | Marketing Page • Direction Page

Ecosystem group

Slack Channel: g_ecosystem | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/ecosystem-team | Handbook | Product Manager: Patrick Deuley | Product Marketing Manager: Ashish Kuthiala (Interim) | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Lukas Eipert | Frontend Engineering Manager: Lukas Eipert | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: Lukas Eipert, Ash McKenzie, Arturo Herrero, Andy Soiron | Frontend Engineering: Mike Greiling, Lukas Eipert, Justin Ho | Product Design Managers: Marcel van Remmerden (Interim), Taurie Davis (FE/UX Foundations) | UX Researcher: Katherine Okpara | Product Designers: Libor Vanc (Integrations), Jarek Ostrowski (FE/UX Foundations), Jeremy Elder (FE/UX Foundations) | Content Marketing: Erica Lindberg | Technical Writer: Mike Lewis | Application Security Engineer: Juan Broullon | Customer Success: Sophie Pouliquen, Simon Mansfield | Internal Customers: Alliances Department (TBD), Customer Success (TBD), Quality Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD), Engineering Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez

• API Viable | Documentation • Direction Page
• Integrations Viable | Documentation • Direction Page
• GDK Viable | Documentation • Direction Page
• FE/UX Foundations Viable | Documentation • Direction Page

Ops section

Product: Kenny Johnston | Development: Sam Goldstein | Support: Lee Matos, Lyle Kozloff | Product Marketing: William Chia, Parker Ennis | Quality: Joanna Shih | Content Marketing: Erica Lindberg | Technical Writing: Mike Lewis | Analyst Relations: Joyce Tompsett, Ryan Ragozzine | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith, Gerardo "Gerir" Lopez-Fernandez

Verify stage

Continuous Integration group

Product Manager: Thao Yeager | Product Marketing Manager: Parker Ennis | Support: Nathan Black | Backend Engineering Manager: Cheryl Li | Frontend Engineering Manager: [Scott Hampton] | Software Engineer in Test: Tiffany Rea | Backend Engineering: Grzegorz Bizon, Matija Čupić, Cheryl Li, Fabio Pitino, Marius Bobin, Furkan Ayhan | Frontend Engineering: Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo, Payton Burdette | Product Design Manager: Nadia Udalova | UX Researcher: Lorie Whitaker | Product Designer: Dimitrie Hoekstra | Content Marketing: Aricka Flowers | Technical Writer: Marcel Amirault | Application Security Engineer: Dominic Couture | Customer Success: Jamie Reid, Vladimir Dzalbo | Internal Customers: Quality Department (Joanna Shih), UX Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD), Engineering Department (TBD), AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group (TBD)

• Continuous Integration (CI) Lovable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page
• Merge Trains Viable | Documentation • Direction Page
• Jenkins Importer New in 2020 | Direction Page

Runner group

Product Manager: Darren Eastman | Product Marketing Manager: Parker Ennis | Support: Alexander Tanayno | Backend Engineering Manager: Elliot Rushton | Frontend Engineering Manager: [Scott Hampton] | Backend Engineering: Tomasz Maczukin, Elliot Rushton, Steve Azzopardi, Georgi Georgiev, Pedro Pombeiro, Lyubomir Raykov, Arran Walker | Product Design Manager: Nadia Udalova | UX Researcher: Lorie Whitaker | Product Designer: Juan J. Ramirez | Content Marketing: Aricka Flowers | Technical Writer: Suzanne Selhorn | Application Security Engineer: Dominic Couture | Customer Success: Jamie Reid, Vladimir Dzalbo | Internal Customers: Infrastructure Department (TBD), Engineering Department (TBD)

• GitLab Runner | Documentation • Direction Page

Testing group

Product Manager: James Heimbuck | Product Marketing Manager: Parker Ennis | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Ricky Wiens | Frontend Engineering Manager: [Scott Hampton] | Software Engineer in Test: Zeff Morgan | Backend Engineering: Ricky Wiens, Drew Cimino, Erick Bajao, Maxime Orefice | Frontend Engineering: Miranda Fluharty, Scott Hampton, Frédéric Caplette | Product Design Manager: Nadia Udalova | UX Researcher: Lorie Whitaker | Product Designer: Juan J. Ramirez | Content Marketing: Aricka Flowers | Technical Writer: Marcel Amirault | Application Security Engineer: Dominic Couture | Customer Success: Jamie Reid, Vladimir Dzalbo | Internal Customers: Quality Department (Joanna Shih), UX Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD), AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group (TBD)

• Code Quality Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page
• Code Testing and Coverage Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page
• Load Testing Planned 2020 | Direction Page
• Web Performance Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page
• Usability Testing Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page
• Accessibility Testing New in 2020 | Documentation • Direction Page

Package stage

Slack Channel: s_package | Handbook

Package group

Slack Channel: s_package | Slack Alias: @package-group | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/package | Handbook | Product Manager: Tim Rizzi | Product Marketing Manager: Parker Ennis | Support: Sara Ahbabou | Backend Engineering Manager: John Hampton | Frontend Engineering Manager: John Hampton | Backend Engineering: Steve Abrams, David Fernandez, Giorgenes Gelatti, Hayley Swimelar, João Pereira | Frontend Engineering: Nick Kipling, Nicolò Maria Mezzopera | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell | UX Researcher: Lorie Whitaker | Product Designer: Iain Camacho | Content Marketing: Aricka Flowers | Technical Writer: Suzanne Selhorn | Application Security Engineer: Vitor Meireles De Sousa | Customer Success: Brian Cupini | Internal Customers: Distribution Team (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD)

• Container Registry Viable | Documentation • Direction Page
• Package Registry Viable | Documentation • Direction Page
• Helm Chart Registry New in 2020 | Documentation • Direction Page
• Dependency Proxy Viable | Documentation • Direction Page
• Dependency Firewall Planned 2020 | Direction Page
• Jupyter Notebooks Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page
• Git LFS Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page

Release stage

Progressive Delivery group

Product Manager: Orit Golowinski | Product Marketing Manager: Parker Ennis | Support: James McGrew | Backend Engineering Manager: Chase Southard | Frontend Engineering Manager: Nicole Williams | Backend Engineering: Shinya Maeda, Jason Goodman, Etienne Baqué, Amy Troschinetz, Chase Southard | Frontend Engineering: Nicole Williams, Andrew Fontaine | Product Design Manager: Nadia Udalova | UX Researcher: Lorie Whitaker | Product Designer: Dimitrie Hoekstra | Content Marketing: Aricka Flowers | Technical Writer: Marcel Amirault | Application Security Engineer: Dominic Couture | Customer Success: Karen Kwentus, Manuel Kraft | Internal Customers: Delivery Team (TBD), Distribution Team (TBD), Gitter (TBD), Security Department (TBD), Tech Writers (TBD), AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group (TBD)

• Continuous Delivery Complete | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page
• Incremental Rollout | Documentation • Direction Page
• Review Apps Complete | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page
• Feature Flags Viable | Documentation • Direction Page

Release Management group

Product Manager: Jackie Meshell | Product Marketing Manager: Parker Ennis | Support: James McGrew | Backend Engineering Manager: [Nicole Williams (acting)] | Frontend Engineering Manager: Nicole Williams | Backend Engineering: Nicole Williams, Krasimir Angelov, Sean Carroll, Vladimir Shushlin, Jaime Martínez | Frontend Engineering: Nicole Williams, Jake Burden, Nathan Friend | Product Design Manager: Nadia Udalova | UX Researcher: Lorie Whitaker | Product Designer: Rayana Verissimo | Content Marketing: Aricka Flowers | Technical Writer: Suzanne Selhorn | Application Security Engineer: Dominic Couture | Customer Success: Karen Kwentus, Manuel Kraft | Internal Customers: Distribution Team (TBD), Gitter (TBD), Security Department (TBD), Tech Writers (TBD), Marketing Department (TBD), UX Department (TBD)

• Release Orchestration Viable | Documentation • Direction Page
• Secrets Management Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page
• Release Evidence New in 2020 | Documentation • Direction Page
• Pages Complete | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page

Configure stage

Slack Channel: s_configure | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/configure | Handbook

Configure group

Slack Channel: s_configure | Slack Alias: @Configure Group | Handbook | Product Manager: Viktor Nagy | Product Marketing Manager: William Chia | Support: Lewis Brown | Backend Engineering Manager: Nicholas Klick | Software Engineer in Test: Dan Davison | Backend Engineering: Nicholas Klick, Thong Kuah, Hordur Freyr Yngvason, João Cunha, Tiger Watson, Mikhail Mazurskiy, Serena Fang, Matt Kasa, Emily Ring | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell | UX Researcher: Andrej Kiripolský | Product Designer: Maria Vrachni | Content Marketing: Aricka Flowers | Technical Writer: Amy Qualls | Application Security Engineer: Vitor Meireles De Sousa | Customer Success: Tim Poffenbarger, Chester Nwachukwu | Internal Customers: Quality Department (Joanna Shih), Delivery Team (John Skarbek), Reliability Engineering (Devin Sylva)

• Auto DevOps Viable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page
• Infrastructure as Code Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page
• Kubernetes Management Viable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page
• Cluster Cost Optimization Planned 2020 | Direction Page
• Serverless Minimal | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page
• ChatOps Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page
• Runbooks Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page

Monitor stage

Slack Channel: s_monitor | Slack Alias: @Monitor Group | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/monitor | Handbook | Group Product Manager: Kevin Chu

APM group

Slack Channel: g_monitor_apm | Slack Alias: @monitor-apm-group | Handbook | Product Manager: Dov Hershkovitch | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: Cody West | Backend Engineering Manager: Matt Nohr | Frontend Engineering Manager: Clement Ho | Software Engineer in Test: Sofia Vistas | Backend Engineering: Reuben Pereira, Ryan Cobb, Adrien Kohlbecker, Mikołaj Wawrzyniak, Kirstie Cook | Frontend Engineering: Jose Ivan Vargas, Dhiraj Bodicherla, Miguel Rincon, Andrei Stoicescu | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell | UX Researcher: Andrej Kiripolský | Product Designer: Nadia Sotnikova | Content Marketing: Aricka Flowers | Technical Writer: Amy Qualls | Application Security Engineer: Vitor Meireles De Sousa | Customer Success: | Internal Customer: Infrastructure Department ([Andrew Newdigate])

• Metrics Viable | Documentation • Direction Page
• Tracing Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page
• Logging Viable | Documentation • Direction Page

Health group

Slack Channel: g_monitor_health | Slack Alias: @monitor-health-group | Handbook | Product Manager: Sarah Waldner | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: Cody West | Backend Engineering Manager: Crystal Poole | Frontend Engineering Manager: Clement Ho | Software Engineer in Test: Sofia Vistas | Backend Engineering: Peter Leitzen, Sarah Yasonik, Vitali Tatarintev, Allison Browne, Sean Arnold | Frontend Engineering: Tristan Read, Laura Montemayor, Olena HK., David O'Regan | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell | UX Researcher: Andrej Kiripolský | Product Designer: Amelia Bauerly | Content Marketing: Aricka Flowers | Technical Writer: Amy Qualls | Application Security Engineer: Vitor Meireles De Sousa | Customer Success: Vladimir Ten, Sri Rangan | Internal Customers: Infrastructure Department (Anthony Sandoval), Infrastructure Department (Dave Smith), Engineering Department (TBD)

• Error Tracking Viable | Documentation • Direction Page
• Alert Management New in 2020 | Documentation • Direction Page
• Digital Experience Management Planned 2020 | Direction Page
• Incident Management Viable | Documentation • Direction Page

Secure & Defend section

Product: David DeSanto | Development: Todd Stadelhofer, Wayne Haber | Support: Tom Atkins | Product Marketing: Cindy Blake | Quality: Tanya Pazitny | Content Marketing: Erica Lindberg | Technical Writing: Mike Lewis | Analyst Relations: Joyce Tompsett | Infrastructure Manager: Anthony Sandoval

Secure stage

Slack Channel: s_secure | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/secure | Handbook

Static Analysis group

Slack Channel: g_secure-static-analysis | Slack Alias: @secure_static_analysis_be | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/secure/static-analysis-be | Product Manager: Taylor McCaslin | Product Marketing Manager: Cindy Blake | Support: Thiago Presa | Backend Engineering Manager: Thomas Woodham | Frontend Engineering Manager: Neil McCorrison | Backend Engineering: Thomas Woodham, Lucas Charles, Ross Fuhrman, Daniel Searles, Zach Rice, Saikat Sarkar | Frontend Engineering: Neil McCorrison, Sam Beckham, Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt, Fernando Arias, Mark Florian, Dave Pisek, Dheeraj Joshi | Product Design Manager: Valerie Karnes | UX Researcher: Tali Lavi | Product Designer: Rebecca "Becka" Lippert | Content Marketing: Erica Lindberg | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: Chloe Whitestone, Brian Wald, Bryan Miller | Internal Customers: Security Department (TBD), Engineering Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Anthony Sandoval

• SAST Viable | Documentation • Direction Page
• Secret Detection Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page
• Malware Scanning Planned 2021
• Language-specific

Dynamic Analysis group

Slack Channel: g_secure-dynamic-analysis | Slack Alias: @secure_dynamice_analysis_be | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/secure/dynamic-analysis-be | Product Manager: Derek Ferguson | Product Marketing Manager: Cindy Blake | Support: Thiago Presa | Backend Engineering Manager: Seth Berger | Frontend Engineering Manager: Neil McCorrison | Backend Engineering: Seth Berger, Avielle Wolfe, Cam Swords, Philip Cunningham, Craig Smith | Frontend Engineering: Neil McCorrison, Sam Beckham, Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt, Fernando Arias, Mark Florian, Dave Pisek, Dheeraj Joshi | Product Design Manager: Valerie Karnes | UX Researcher: Tali Lavi | Product Designers: Camellia X. YANG, Annabel Dunstone Gray | Content Marketing: Erica Lindberg | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: Chloe Whitestone, Brian Wald, Bryan Miller | Internal Customers: Security Department (TBD), Engineering Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Anthony Sandoval

• DAST Viable | Documentation • Direction Page
• PKI Management Planned 2021 | Direction Page
• IAST Planned 2022 | Direction Page
• Attack Emulation Planned 2022

Composition Analysis group

Slack Channel: g_composition-dynamic-analysis | Slack Alias: @secure_composition_analysis_be | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/secure/composition-analysis-be | Product Manager: Nicole Schwartz | Product Marketing Manager: Cindy Blake | Support: Greg Myers | Backend Engineering Manager: Olivier Gonzalez | Frontend Engineering Manager: Neil McCorrison | Software Engineer in Test: Will Meek | Backend Engineering: Olivier Gonzalez, Fabien Catteau, Tetiana Chupryna, Can Eldem, Mo Khan, Adam Cohen, Igor Frenkel | Frontend Engineering: Neil McCorrison, Sam Beckham, Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt, Fernando Arias, Mark Florian, Dave Pisek, Dheeraj Joshi | Product Design Manager: Valerie Karnes | UX Researcher: Tali Lavi | Product Designer: Kyle Mann | Content Marketing: Erica Lindberg | Technical Writer: Nick Gaskill | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: Chloe Whitestone, Brian Wald, Bryan Miller | Internal Customers: Security Department (TBD), Engineering Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Anthony Sandoval

• Dependency Scanning Viable | Documentation • Direction Page
• Container Scanning Viable | Documentation • Direction Page
• License Compliance Viable | Documentation • Direction Page

Fuzz Testing group

Slack Channel: g_secure-fuzz-testing | Product Manager: Sam Kerr | Product Marketing Manager: Cindy Blake | Support: Eric Rosenberg | Backend Engineering Manager: Seth Berger (Interim) | Frontend Engineering Manager: Neil McCorrison | Product Design Manager: Valerie Karnes | UX Researcher: Tali Lavi | Product Designer: Camellia X. YANG | Content Marketing: Erica Lindberg | Technical Writer: Nick Gaskill | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: Chloe Whitestone, Brian Wald, Bryan Miller | Internal Customers: Security Department (TBD), Engineering Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Anthony Sandoval

• Fuzz Testing Planned 2020 | Direction Page

Vulnerability Research group

Slack Channel: g_secure-vulnerability-research | Product Manager: Sam Kerr | Product Marketing Manager: Cindy Blake | Support: Greg Myers | Backend Engineering Manager: Todd Stadelhofer (Interim) | Backend Engineering: Philippe Lafoucrière, Olivier Gonzalez, Fabien Catteau, Tetiana Chupryna, Can Eldem, Mo Khan, Adam Cohen, Igor Frenkel, Thomas Woodham, Lucas Charles, Ross Fuhrman, Daniel Searles, Zach Rice, Saikat Sarkar, Seth Berger, Avielle Wolfe, Cam Swords, Philip Cunningham, Craig Smith | Content Marketing: Erica Lindberg | Technical Writer: Nick Gaskill | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Security Department (TBD), Engineering Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Anthony Sandoval

• Vulnerability Database Minimal | Direction Page
• Security Benchmarking Minimal | Direction Page

Defend stage

Slack Channel: s_defend | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/defend | Handbook

Container Security group

Slack Channel: g_defend_container_security | Product Manager: Sam White | Product Marketing Manager: Cindy Blake | Support: Greg Myers | Backend Engineering Manager: Thiago Figueiró | Frontend Engineering Manager: Lindsay Kerr | Backend Engineering: Arthur Evstifeev, Zamir Martins Filho, Alan (Maciej) Paruszewski | Frontend Engineering: Lindsay Kerr, Daniel Tian, Savas Vedova, Alexander Turinske | Product Design Manager: Valerie Karnes | UX Researcher: Tali Lavi | Product Designer: Andy Volpe | Content Marketing: Erica Lindberg | Technical Writer: Nick Gaskill | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: Bradley Andersen, Sri Rangan | Internal Customers: Security Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Anthony Sandoval

• WAF Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page
• Container Network Security New in 2020 | Documentation • Direction Page
• Container Behavior Analytics Planned 2020 | Direction Page

Threat Insights group

Slack Channel: g_defend_threat_insights | Product Manager: Matt Wilson | Product Marketing Manager: Cindy Blake | Support: Greg Myers | Backend Engineering Manager: Thiago Figueiró | Frontend Engineering Manager: Lindsay Kerr | Backend Engineering: Jonathan Schafer, Mehmet Emin Inac, Michał Zając | Frontend Engineering: Lindsay Kerr, Daniel Tian, Savas Vedova, Alexander Turinske | Product Design Manager: Valerie Karnes | UX Researcher: Tali Lavi | Product Designer: Andy Volpe | Content Marketing: Erica Lindberg | Technical Writer: Nick Gaskill | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: Bradley Andersen, Sri Rangan | Internal Customer: Security Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Anthony Sandoval

• Vulnerability Management New in 2020 | Documentation • Direction Page
• UEBA Planned 2021 | Direction Page
• Responsible Disclosure

Growth section

Product: Hila Qu | Development: Bartek Marnane | Support: Shaun McCann | Product Marketing: Ashish Kuthiala | Quality: Vincy Wilson | Content Marketing: Erica Lindberg | Technical Writing: Mike Lewis | Analyst Relations: Joyce Tompsett, Ryan Ragozzine | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith

Growth stage

Slack Channel: s_growth | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/gl-growth | Handbook | Internal Customers: Sales Department (TBD), Marketing Department (TBD), Product Department (TBD), Finance Department (TBD)

Acquisition group

Slack Channel: g_acquisition | Handbook | Product Manager: Jensen Stava | Engineering Manager: Jerome Ng | Support: Donique Smit | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Jeff Crow | Product Designer: Emily Sybrant | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Customer Success: Hugo Azevedo | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith

Conversion group

Slack Channel: g_conversion | Handbook | Product Manager: Sam Awezec | Engineering Manager: Jerome Ng | Support: Donique Smit | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Jeff Crow | Product Designer: Kevin Comoli | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Customer Success: Hugo Azevedo | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith

Expansion group

Slack Channel: g_expansion | Handbook | Product Manager: Tim Hey | Engineering Manager: Phil Calder | Support: Donique Smit | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Jeff Crow | Product Designer: Matej Latin | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Customer Success: Hugo Azevedo | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith

Retention group

Slack Channel: g_retention | Handbook | Product Manager: Michael Karampalas | Engineering Manager: Phil Calder | Support: Donique Smit | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Jeff Crow | Product Designer: Tim Noah | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Customer Success: Hugo Azevedo | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith

Fulfillment group

Slack Channel: g_fulfillment | Handbook | Product Manager: Amanda Rueda | Product Marketing Manager: John Jeremiah | Support: Donique Smit | Backend Engineering Manager: James Lopez | Frontend Engineering Manager: Chris Baus | Software Engineer in Test: Chloe Liu | Backend Engineering: Rubén Dávila, James Lopez, Corinna Wiesner, Tyler Amos, Shreyas Agarwal, Vladlena Shumilo | Frontend Engineering: Vitaly Slobodin, Chris Baus, Ragnar Hardarson, Ammar Alakkad | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Jeff Crow | Product Designers: Tim Noah, Emily Sybrant, Kevin Comoli, Matej Latin | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Customer Success: Hugo Azevedo | Internal Customers: Sales Department (TBD), Marketing Department (TBD), Product Department (TBD), Customer Success (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith

• Billing

Telemetry group

Handbook | Product Manager: Sid Reddy | Product Marketing Manager: John Jeremiah | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Jerome Ng | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Jeff Crow | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Customer Success: Hugo Azevedo | Internal Customers: Sales Department (TBD), Marketing Department (TBD), Product Department (TBD), Customer Success (TBD), Data Team (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith

• Collection | Direction Page
• Analysis Minimal
• Product Analytics Planned 2020 | Direction Page

Enablement section

Product: Joshua Lambert | Development: Chun Du | Support: Jason Colyer | Product Marketing: Ashish Kuthiala | Quality: Tanya Pazitny | Content Marketing: Erica Lindberg | Technical Writing: Mike Lewis | Analyst Relations: Joyce Tompsett, Ryan Ragozzine | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith

Enablement stage

Slack Channel: s_enablement | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/enablement-section | Handbook

Distribution group

Slack Channel: g_distribution | Slack Alias: @distributionteam | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/distribution | Handbook | Product Manager: Larissa Lane | Product Marketing Manager: William Chia | Support: Diana Stanley | Backend Engineering Manager: Steven Wilson | Software Engineers in Test: Nailia Iskhakova, Nick Westbury | Backend Engineering: David 'DJ' Mountney, Jason Plum, Gerard Hickey, Ian Baum, Balasankar "Balu" C, Robert Marshall, Steven Wilson, Hossein Pursultani, Dustin Collins, Mitch Nielsen | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Lorie Whitaker | Product Designer: Sunjung Park | Technical Writer: Axil | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Internal Customers: Quality Department (Kyle Wiebers), Infrastructure Department (TBD), Customer Success (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith

• Omnibus Package Lovable | Documentation • Direction Page
• Cloud Native Installation Viable | Documentation • Direction Page

Geo group

Slack Channel: g_geo | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/geo-team | Handbook | Product Manager: Fabian Zimmer | Product Marketing Manager: John Jeremiah | Support: Aric Buerer, Catalin Irimie | Backend Engineering Manager: Nick Nguyen | Frontend Engineering Manager: Nick Nguyen | Software Engineer in Test: Jennie Louie | Backend Engineering: Valery Sizov, Gabriel Mazetto, Douglas Barbosa Alexandre, Toon Claes, Michael Kozono, Aakriti Gupta, Alex Ives, Nick Nguyen | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Lorie Whitaker | Product Designer: Sunjung Park | Technical Writer: Axil | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Internal Customer: Infrastructure Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith

• Geo-replication Viable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page
• Disaster Recovery Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page
• Backup/Restore of GitLab instances Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page

Memory group

Slack Channel: g_memory | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/memory-team | Handbook | Product Manager: Joshua Lambert (Interim) | Product Marketing Manager: Ashish Kuthiala (Interim) | Support: [Muhamed Huseinbašić] | Backend Engineering Manager: Craig Gomes | Software Engineer in Test: Grant Young | Backend Engineering: Kamil Trzciński, Craig Gomes, Qingyu Zhao, Aleksei Lipniagov, Nikola Milojevic, Matthias Käppler | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Lorie Whitaker | Content Marketing: Erica Lindberg | Technical Writer: Axil | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Internal Customers: Quality Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith

Global Search group

Slack Channel: g_global_search | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/search-team | Handbook | Product Manager: Kai Armstrong (Interim) | Product Marketing Manager: John Jeremiah | Support: Blair Lunceford | Backend Engineering Manager: Changzheng Liu | Frontend Engineering Manager: Changzheng Liu (Interim) | Software Engineer in Test: Erick Banks | Backend Engineering: Micaël Bergeron, Dylan Griffith, Alishan 'Ali' Ladhani, Changzheng Liu, Dmitry Gruzd, Terri Chu | Frontend Engineering: | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Lorie Whitaker | Product Designer: TBD | Technical Writer: Axil | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Internal Customers: Engineering Department (TBD), Customer Success (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith

• Global Search Viable | Documentation • Direction Page

Database group

Slack Channel: g_database | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/database-team | Handbook | Product Manager: Joshua Lambert (Interim) | Product Marketing Manager: TBD | Support: Ben Prescott | Backend Engineering Manager: Craig Gomes | Backend Engineering: Andreas Brandl, Patrick Bair, Yannis Roussos | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Lorie Whitaker | Content Marketing: TBD | Technical Writer: Axil | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Internal Customers: Quality Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith

• Database

Possible future Stages

We have boundless ambition, and we expect GitLab to continue to add new stages to the DevOps lifecycle. Below is a list of future stages we are considering:

1. Data, maybe leveraging Meltano product
2. ML/AI, maybe leveraging Kubeflow
3. Networking, maybe leveraging some of the open source standards for networking and/or Terraform networking providers
4. Design, we already have design management today
5. Govern, combined dashboards for secure, defend, and maybe things like requirements management

Stages are different from the application types you can service with GitLab.

Maturity

Not all categories are at the same level of maturity. Some are just minimal and some are lovable. See the category maturity page to see where each category stands.

Solutions

GitLab also does the things below that are composed of multiple categories.

1. Software Composition Analysis (SCA) = Dependency Scanning + License Compliance + Container Scanning
2. Application Performance Monitoring (APM) = Metrics + Tracing + Real User Monitoring (RUM)
3. Project Management = Issue Tracking + Kanban Boards + Time Tracking
4. Agile Portfolio Management = Epics + Roadmaps + Issue Tracking + Kanban Boards + Time Tracking

We are intentional in not defining SCA as containing SAST and Code Quality despite some analysts using the term to also include those categories.

Other functionality

This list of other functionality so you can easily find the team that owns it. Maybe we should make our features easier to search to replace the section below.

Other functionality in Plan stage

• markdown functionality
• assignees
• milestones
• due dates
• labels
• issue weights
• quick actions
• email notifications
• todos
• GraphQL API foundational code

Other functionality in Create stage

Source Code group

• Repository Mirroring
• SSH git operations (gitlab-shell)
• gitlab-workhorse

Other functionality in Verify

• Runner

Other functionality in Secure stage

Composition Analysis group

• Dependency List
• Policy Settings
• Security Reports Integration

Other functionality in Defend stage

Threat Insights group

• Pipeline and Merge Request Security reports
• Interacting with Vulnerabilities
• Security Dashboards

Other functionality in Monitor stage

APM group

• GitLab Self-monitoring
• Instrumentation Workflow
• Triaging Workflow

Health group

• Operations Dashboard
• Resolve Workflow
• Improve Workflows

Shared functionality

Some areas of the product are shared across multiple stages. Examples of this include, among others:

• Navigation used throughout the application, including the top bar and side bar.
• Shared project views, like the project overview and settings page.
• Functionality specific to the admin area and not tied to a feature belonging to a particular stage.

Issues related to these areas should be owned on a case-by-case basis, depending on the problem to solve. If you encounter an issue falling into a shared area, you can:

• Apply the group::not_owned label to indicate a lack of ownership that requires resolution.
• @ mention a product manager in the most closely related stage for assistance with ownership and prioritization.

Once a responsible individual for the issue has been established, remove the group::not_owned label and replace it with an appropriate label for the group who is taking ownership for the issue.