Product sections, stages, groups, and categories

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• On this page
• Interfaces
• Hierarchy
  • Naming
  • More Details
  • Solutions
  • Capabilities
  • Layers
• Changes
  • Examples
• DevOps Stages
  • Dev section
    • Manage stage
      • Access group
      • Compliance group
      • Import group
      • Optimize group
    • Plan stage
      • Project Management group
      • Product Planning group
      • Certify group
    • Create stage
      • Source Code group
      • Code Review group
      • Editor group
      • Gitaly group
      • Ecosystem group
  • Ops section
    • Verify stage
      • Continuous Integration group
      • Pipeline Authoring group
      • Runner group
      • Testing group
    • Package stage
      • Package group
    • Release stage
      • Release group
    • Configure stage
      • Configure group
    • Monitor stage
      • Monitor group
  • Sec section
    • Secure stage
      • Static Analysis group
      • Dynamic Analysis group
      • Composition Analysis group
      • Threat Insights group
      • Vulnerability Research group
    • Protect stage
      • Container Security group
  • Growth section
    • Growth stage
      • Activation group
      • Conversion group
      • Expansion group
      • Adoption group
      • Product Intelligence group
  • Fulfillment section
    • Fulfillment stage
      • Purchase group
      • License group
      • Utilization group
  • Enablement section
    • Enablement stage
      • Distribution group
      • Geo group
      • Memory group
      • Global Search group
      • Database group
      • Sharding group
      • Infrastructure group
  • Single-Engineer Groups section
    • Learn stage
      • Applied Machine Learning group
      • MLOps group
      • DataOps group
    • Mobile stage
      • DevOps for Mobile Apps group
    • Deploy stage
      • Five Minute Production App group
• Possible future Stages
• Maturity
• Solutions
• Other functionality
  • Other functionality in Plan stage
  • Other functionality in Create stage
    • Source Code group
    • Code Review group
  • Other functionality in Verify
  • Other functionality in Secure stage
    • Composition Analysis group
    • Threat Insights group
  • Other functionality in Protect stage
    • Container Security group
  • Other functionality in Monitor stage
    • Health group
  • Other functionality in Manage stage
    • Access group
  • Facilitated functionality
• Categories A-Z

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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 Protect 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.

If you want to refer to a group in context of their stage you can write that as "Stage:Group". This can be useful in email signatures, job titles, and other communications. E.g. "Monitor:Health" rather than "Monitor Health" or "Monitor, Health."

When naming a new stage, group, or category, you should search the handbook and main marketing website to look for other naming conflicts which could confuse customers or employees. Uniqueness is preferred if possible to help drive clarity and reduce confusion. See additional product feature naming guidelines as well.

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 Enablement 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.

All new category creation needs to be specifically approved via our Opportunity Canvas review process. This is to avoid scope creep and breadth at the expense of depth and user experience.

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. Chief Product Officer
2. VP of Product Management
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. Chief Technology Officer
2. VP 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: David DeSanto | Development: Tim Zallmann | Product Design Managers: Taurie Davis, Marcel van Remmerden, Mike Long | Support: Shaun McCann | Product Marketing: William Chia | Quality: Ramya Authappan | Analyst Relations: Ryan Ragozzine | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez

Manage stage

Product Management: Orit Golowinski

Access group

Engineering totals: 2 FE, 7 BE

Product Manager: Melissa Ushakov | Product Marketing Manager: Cindy Blake | Support: Cynthia Ng (SaaS), TBD (SM) | Backend Engineering Manager: Liam McAndrew | Frontend Engineering Manager: Dennis Tang | Software Engineer in Test: Sanad Liaquat | Backend Engineering: Drew Blessing, Imre Farkas, Liam McAndrew, Małgorzata Ksionek, Manoj M J, Alex Pooley, Serena Fang | Frontend Engineering: Dennis Tang, Peter Hegman | Product Design Manager: Mike Long | UX Researcher: Anne Lasch | Product Designer: Daniel Mora | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Evan Read | Application Security Engineer: Ron Chan | Customer Success: Adrian Waters, Yolanda Feldstein | Internal Customers: Customer Support Department (TBD), Security Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: Manage Access Paid GMAU | Features in this Group

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

Compliance group

Engineering totals: 3 FE, 3 BE

Product Manager: Sam Kerr | Product Marketing Manager: Cindy Blake | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Dan Jensen | Frontend Engineering Manager: Dennis Tang | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: Dan Jensen, Tan Le, Max Woolf | Frontend Engineering: Dennis Tang, Jiaan Louw, Robert Hunt | Product Design Manager: Mike Long | UX Researcher: Anne Lasch | Product Designer: Austin Regnery | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Evan Read | Application Security Engineer: Ron Chan | Customer Success: Adrian Waters, Yolanda Feldstein | Internal Customers: Customer Support Department (TBD), Security Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: Manage Compliance Paid GMAU | Features in this Group

• Audit Events Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Audit Reports Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Compliance Management Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Import group

Engineering totals: 2 FE, 3 BE

Product Manager: Haris Delalić | Product Marketing Manager: Cormac Foster | Support: Cynthia Ng (Interim) | Backend Engineering Manager: Liam McAndrew | Frontend Engineering Manager: Dennis Tang | Software Engineer in Test: Andrejs Cunskis | Backend Engineering: Liam McAndrew, George Koltsov, Kassio Borges | Frontend Engineering: Dennis Tang, Illya Klymov | Product Design Manager: Mike Long | UX Researcher: Anne Lasch | Product Designer: Amanda Hughes | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Nick Gaskill | Application Security Engineer: Ron Chan | Customer Success: Adrian Waters, Yolanda Feldstein | Internal Customers: Customer Support Department (TBD), Product Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: Manage Import GMAU | Features in this Group

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

Optimize group

Engineering totals: 3 FE, 4 BE

Product Manager: Larissa Lane | Product Marketing Manager: Cormac Foster | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Dan Jensen | Frontend Engineering Manager: Martin Wortschack | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: Pavel Shutsin, Adam Hegyi, Dan Jensen, Magdalena Frankiewicz | Frontend Engineering: Martin Wortschack, Brandon Labuschagne, Ezekiel Kigbo | Product Design Manager: Mike Long | UX Researcher: Anne Lasch | Product Designer: Nick Post | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski | Application Security Engineer: Ron Chan | Customer Success: Yolanda Feldstein | Internal Customers: Engineering Department (TBD), Product Department (TBD), Quality Department (TBD), Development Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: Manage Optimize GMAU | Features in this Group

• DevOps Reports Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Planning Analytics Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Code Analytics Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Value Stream Management Viable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Insights Viable | Documentation • Category Health

Plan stage

Project Management group

Engineering totals: 4 FE, 5 BE

Handbook | Product Manager: Gabe Weaver | Product Marketing Manager: Cormac Foster | Support: Ben Prescott | Backend Engineering Manager: Jake Lear | Frontend Engineering Manager: Donald Cook | Software Engineer in Test: Désirée Chevalier | Backend Engineering: Brett Walker, Heinrich Lee Yu, Alexandru Croitor, Jake Lear, Mario Celi | Frontend Engineering: Simon Knox, Natalia Tepluhina, Scott Stern, Coung Ngo | Product Design Manager: Mike Long | UX Researcher: Anne Lasch | 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 | Focus: Plan Project Management Paid GMAU | Features in this Group

• Issue Tracking Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Boards Viable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Time Tracking Viable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Projects | Documentation • Category Health

Product Planning group

Engineering totals: 4 FE, 6 BE

Handbook | Product Manager: Christen Dybenko | 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: Kushal Pandya, Rajat Jain, Florie Guibert, Eulyeon K. | Product Design Manager: Mike Long | UX Researcher: Anne Lasch | Product Designer: Alexis Ginsberg | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski | Application Security Engineer: Costel Maxim | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Engineering Department (TBD), Product Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: [Plan Product Planning Paid GMAU] | Features in this Group

• Epics Viable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Roadmaps Minimal | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Design Management Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Certify group

Handbook | Product Manager: Mark Wood | Product Marketing Manager: Cormac Foster | Support: John Long | Backend Engineering Manager: John Hope | Frontend Engineering Manager: Donald Cook | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: | Frontend Engineering: | Product Design Manager: Mike Long | UX Researcher: Anne Lasch | 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: Quality Department (TBD), Customer Support Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: Plan Certify Paid GMAU | Features in this Group

• Requirements Management Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Quality Management Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Service Desk Viable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Create stage

Product Management: Sarah Waldner

Source Code group

Engineering totals: 3 FE, 5 BE

Handbook | Product Manager: Daniel Gruesso | Product Marketing Manager: Brian Glanz | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Sean Carroll (Interim) | Frontend Engineering Manager: André Luís | Software Engineer in Test: Mark Lapierre | Backend Engineering: Nick Thomas, Igor Drozdov, Sean Carroll, Robert May, Vasilii Iakliushin | Frontend Engineering: André Luís, Jacques Erasmus, Samantha Ming | Product Design Manager: Marcel van Remmerden | UX Researcher: Katherine Okpara | Product Designer: Mike Nichols | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Amy Qualls | Application Security Engineer: Costel Maxim | Customer Success: Sophie Pouliquen, Simon Mansfield | Internal Customers: Engineering Department (TBD), Marketing Department (Brian Glanz), Product Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: Create Source Code GMAU | Features in this Group

• Source Code Management Lovable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Code Review group

Engineering totals: 5 FE, 5 BE

Handbook | Product Manager: Kai Armstrong | Product Marketing Manager: Brian Glanz | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Matt Nohr | Frontend Engineering Manager: André Luís | Software Engineer in Test: Tomislav Nikić | Backend Engineering: Patrick Bajao, Kerri Miller, David Sincheol Kim, Gary Holtz, Marc Shaw | Frontend Engineering: André Luís, Tomas Vik, Justin Boyson, Thomas Randolph, Phil Hughes | Product Design Manager: Marcel van Remmerden | UX Researcher: Katherine Okpara | Product Designer: Pedro Moreira da Silva | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Amy Qualls | Application Security Engineer: [Michael Henriksen] | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Engineering Department (TBD), Marketing Department (TBD), Product Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: [Create Code Review GMAU] | Features in this Group

• Code Review Lovable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Editor Extension Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Editor group

Engineering totals: 4 FE, 3 BE

Handbook | Product Manager: Eric Schurter | Product Marketing Manager: Brian Glanz | Support: John Long | Frontend Engineering Manager: Roman Kuba | Software Engineer in Test: Anastasia McDonald | Backend Engineering: Athar Hameed, Francisco Javier López, Chad Woolley | Frontend Engineering: Paul Slaughter, Denys Mishunov, Enrique Alcántara, Himanshu Kapoor | Product Design Manager: Marcel van Remmerden | UX Researcher: Katherine Okpara | Product Designer: Michael Le | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Amy Qualls | Application Security Engineer: [Michael Henriksen] | 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 | Focus: Create Editor GMAU | Features in this Group

• Web IDE Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Snippets Complete | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Live Preview Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Wiki Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Static Site Editor Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• GitLab Documentation Site | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Navigation & Settings | Direction Page • Category Health

Gitaly group

Engineering totals: 7 BE

Product Manager: Mark Wood | Product Marketing Manager: Brian Glanz | Support: Will Chandler | Backend Engineering Manager: Zeger-Jan van de Weg | Software Engineers in Test: Mark Lapierre, Tomislav Nikić | Backend Engineering: Christian Couder, Toon Claes, James Fargher, Pavlo Strokov, Patrick Steinhardt, Sami Hiltunen, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason | Technical Writer: Evan Read | Application Security Engineer: Costel Maxim | Customer Success: Sophie Pouliquen, Simon Mansfield | Internal Customers: Quality Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: Create Gitaly GMAU | Features in this Group

• Gitaly | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Ecosystem group

Engineering totals: 3 FE, 6 BE

Slack Channel: g_ecosystem | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/ecosystem-team | Handbook | Product Manager: Patrick Deuley | Product Marketing Manager: Brian Glanz | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Arturo Herrero (Acting) | Frontend Engineering Manager: Lukas Eipert | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: Ash McKenzie, Luke Duncalfe, Alex Kalderimis, Markus Koller, Arturo Herrero, Andy Soiron | Frontend Engineering: Mike Greiling, Justin Ho, Tom Quirk | Product Design Managers: Marcel van Remmerden, Taurie Davis (FE/UX Foundations) | UX Researcher: Katherine Okpara | Product Designers: Libor Vanc (Integrations), Jarek Ostrowski (FE/UX Foundations), Jeremy Elder (FE/UX Foundations) | Technical Writer: Amy Qualls | Application Security Engineer: [Michael Henriksen] | 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 | Focus: Create Ecosystem GMAU | Features in this Group

• API Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Integrations Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• GDK Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• FE/UX Foundations Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Jira Importer Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Ops section

Slack Channel: ops-section | Handbook | Product: Kenny Johnston | Development: Sam Goldstein | Product Design Managers: Justin Mandell, Rayana Verissimo | UX Research: Lorie Whitaker | Support: Lee Matos, Lyle Kozloff | Product Marketing: William Chia | Quality: Joanna Shih | Analyst Relations: Ryan Ragozzine

Verify stage

Product Management: Jackie Porter | Product Marketing Manager: Parker Ennis

Continuous Integration group

Engineering totals: 2 FE, 4 BE

Product Manager: Jackie Porter | Product Marketing Manager: Parker Ennis | Support: Nathan Black | Backend Engineering Manager: Cheryl Li | Frontend Engineering Manager: Sam Beckham | Software Engineer in Test: Tiffany Rea | Backend Engineering: Grzegorz Bizon, Fabio Pitino, Marius Bobin, Allison Browne | Frontend Engineering: Jose Ivan Vargas, Payton Burdette | Product Design Manager: Rayana Verissimo | UX Researcher: Lorie Whitaker | Product Designer: Veethika Mishra | Content Marketing: Chrissie Buchanan | 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) | Focus: Verify CI & Runner SMAU | Features in this Group

• Continuous Integration (CI) Complete | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Merge Trains Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Continuous Integration Scaling (CI Scaling) New in 2021 | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Pipeline Authoring group

Engineering totals: 3 FE, 3 BE

Product Manager: Dov Hershkovitch | Product Marketing Manager: Parker Ennis | Support: Nathan Black | Backend Engineering Manager: Cheryl Li | Frontend Engineering Manager: Sam Beckham | Backend Engineering: Matija Čupić, Laura Montemayor, Furkan Ayhan | Frontend Engineering: Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo, Frédéric Caplette, Mireya Andres | Product Design Manager: Rayana Verissimo | UX Researcher: Lorie Whitaker | Product Designer: Nadia Sotnikova | Content Marketing: Chrissie Buchanan | 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) | Focus: Verify CI & Runner SMAU | Features in this Group

• Pipeline Authoring New in 2021 | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Jenkins Importer | Direction Page • Category Health

Runner group

Engineering totals: 1 FE, 7 BE

Product Manager: Darren Eastman | Product Marketing Manager: Parker Ennis | Support: Alexander Tanayno, Nourdin el Bacha | Backend Engineering Manager: Elliot Rushton | Frontend Engineering Manager: Sam Beckham | Software Engineer in Test: Zeff Morgan | Backend Engineering: Tomasz Maczukin, Steve Azzopardi, Adrien Kohlbecker, Georgi Georgiev, Pedro Pombeiro, Arran Walker, Romuald Atchadé | Frontend Engineering: Miguel Rincon | Product Design Manager: Rayana Verissimo | UX Researcher: Lorie Whitaker | Product Designer: Rayana Verissimo | Content Marketing: Chrissie Buchanan | Technical Writer: Suzanne Selhorn | Application Security Engineer: Dominic Couture | Customer Success: Jamie Reid, Vladimir Dzalbo | Internal Customers: Infrastructure Department (TBD), Engineering Department (TBD) | Focus: Verify CI & Runner SMAU | Features in this Group

• GitLab Runner Lovable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Testing group

Engineering totals: 2 FE, 3 BE

Product Manager: James Heimbuck | Product Marketing Manager: Parker Ennis | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: [Scott Hampton] | Frontend Engineering Manager: [Scott Hampton] | Backend Engineering: Drew Cimino, Erick Bajao, Maxime Orefice | Frontend Engineering: Scott Hampton, Miranda Fluharty | Product Design Manager: Rayana Verissimo | UX Researcher: Lorie Whitaker | Product Designer: Rayana Verissimo | Content Marketing: Chrissie Buchanan | Technical Writer: Evan Read | Application Security Engineer: Dominic Couture | Customer Success: Jamie Reid, Vladimir Dzalbo | Internal Customers: Quality Department (Kyle Wiebers), UX Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD), AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group (TBD) | Focus: Verify Testing Paid GMAU | Features in this Group

• Code Testing and Coverage Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Load Testing Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Browser Performance Testing Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Usability Testing Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Accessibility Testing Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Package stage

Slack Channel: s_package | Handbook | Product Management: Kenny Johnston

Package group

Engineering totals: 1 FE, 4 BE

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, Nourdin el Bacha | Backend Engineering Manager: Daniel Croft | Frontend Engineering Manager: Daniel Croft | Software Engineer in Test: Sofia Vistas | Backend Engineering: Steve Abrams, David Fernandez, Hayley Swimelar, João Pereira | Frontend Engineering: Nicolò Maria Mezzopera | Product Design Manager: Rayana Verissimo | UX Researcher: Lorie Whitaker | Product Designer: Iain Camacho | Content Marketing: Chrissie Buchanan | Technical Writer: Nick Gaskill | Application Security Engineer: Vitor Meireles De Sousa | Customer Success: Brian Cupini | Internal Customers: Distribution Team (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD) | Focus: Package Other | Features in this Group

• Container Registry Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Package Registry Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Helm Chart Registry Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Dependency Proxy Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Dependency Firewall Planned 2021 | Direction Page • Category Health
• Git LFS Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Release Evidence Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Release stage

Slack Channel: s_release | Product Management: Kevin Chu | Product Marketing Manager: Parker Ennis

Release group

Engineering totals: 2 FE, 3 BE

Product Manager: Kevin Chu | Product Marketing Manager: Parker Ennis | Support: James McGrew | Backend Engineering Manager: Nicole Williams | Backend Engineering: Shinya Maeda, Vladimir Shushlin, Jaime Martínez | Frontend Engineering: Nathan Friend, Andrew Fontaine | Product Design Manager: Rayana Verissimo | UX Researcher: Lorie Whitaker | Product Designer: Daniel Fosco | Content Marketing: Chrissie Buchanan | Technical Writer: Axil | Application Security Engineer: Dominic Couture | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Delivery Team (TBD), Distribution Team (TBD), Gitter (TBD), Security Department (TBD), Tech Writers (TBD), AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group (TBD) | Focus: [Release SMAU] | Features in this Group

• Continuous Delivery Complete | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Advanced Deployments Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Review Apps Complete | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Feature Flags Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Release Orchestration Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Pages Complete | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Configure stage

Slack Channel: s_configure | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/configure | Handbook | Product Management: Kevin Chu | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya

Configure group

Engineering totals: 5 BE

Slack Channel: s_configure | Slack Alias: @Configure Group | Handbook | Product Manager: Viktor Nagy | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: Lewis Brown | Backend Engineering Manager: Nicholas Klick | Backend Engineering: João Cunha, Tiger Watson, Hordur Freyr Yngvason, Matt Kasa, Mikhail Mazurskiy | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell | UX Researcher: Andrej Kiripolský | Product Designer: Maria Vrachni | Content Marketing: Chrissie Buchanan | Technical Writer: Marcia Ramos | Application Security Engineer: Vitor Meireles De Sousa | Customer Success: Chester Nwachukwu, Tim Poffenbarger | Internal Customers: Quality Department (Joanna Shih), Delivery Team (John Skarbek), Reliability Engineering (Devin Sylva) | Focus: Configure Other | Features in this Group

• Auto DevOps Viable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Infrastructure as Code Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Kubernetes Management Viable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Cluster Cost Management Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Serverless Minimal | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Secrets Management Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• ChatOps Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Runbooks Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Monitor stage

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

Monitor group

Engineering totals: 4 FE, 5 BE

Slack Channel: s_monitor | Slack Alias: @monitor-group | Handbook | Product Manager: [Crystal Poole (Acting)] | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: Cody West | Backend Engineering Manager: Crystal Poole | Frontend Engineering Manager: Crystal Poole | Backend Engineering: Peter Leitzen, Sarah Yasonik, Vitali Tatarintev, Sean Arnold, Crystal Poole | Frontend Engineering: Tristan Read, Olena HK., Crystal Poole, David O'Regan | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell | UX Researcher: Andrej Kiripolský | Product Designer: Amelia Bauerly | Content Marketing: Chrissie Buchanan | Technical Writer: Nick Gaskill | Application Security Engineer: Vitor Meireles De Sousa | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Infrastructure Department ([Anthony Sandoval]), Infrastructure Department (Dave Smith), Engineering Department (TBD) | Focus: [Monitor:Monitor GMAU] | Features in this Group

• Error Tracking Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Incident Management Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Metrics Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Tracing Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Logging Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Synthetic Monitoring Planned 2021 | Direction Page • Category Health
• GitLab Self-Monitoring | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Sec section

Product: David DeSanto | Development: Todd Stadelhofer | Support: TBD | Product Marketing: Cindy Blake | Quality: Tanya Pazitny | Analyst Relations: | Infrastructure Manager: Steve Loyd (Acting)

Secure stage

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

Static Analysis group

Engineering totals: 1 FE, 6 BE

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: Greg Myers | Backend Engineering Manager: Thomas Woodham | Frontend Engineering Manager: Neil McCorrison | Backend Engineering: Lucas Charles, Ross Fuhrman, Thomas Woodham, Daniel Searles, Zach Rice, Saikat Sarkar | Frontend Engineering: Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designer: Rebecca "Becka" Lippert | 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: Steve Loyd (Acting) | Focus: Static Analysis Paid GMAU | Features in this Group

• SAST Complete | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Secret Detection Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Code Quality Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Dynamic Analysis group

Engineering totals: 2 FE, 7 BE

Slack Channel: g_secure-dynamic-analysis | Slack Alias: @secure_dynamic_analysis_be | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/secure/dynamic-analysis-be | Product Manager: Derek Ferguson | Product Marketing Manager: Cindy Blake | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Seth Berger | Frontend Engineering Manager: Neil McCorrison | Backend Engineering: Avielle Wolfe, Seth Berger, Cam Swords, Craig Smith, Philip Cunningham, Mike Eddington, Herber Madrigal | Frontend Engineering: Fernando Arias, Mark Florian | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designers: Camellia X. YANG, Michael Fangman | 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: Steve Loyd (Acting) | Focus: Dynamic Analysis Paid GMAU | Features in this Group

• DAST Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• IAST Planned 2022 | Direction Page • Category Health
• Attack Emulation Planned 2022 | Category Health
• Fuzz Testing Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Composition Analysis group

Engineering totals: 1 FE, 5 BE

Slack Channel: g_secure-composition-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: Katrin Leinweber | Backend Engineering Manager: Olivier Gonzalez | Frontend Engineering Manager: Neil McCorrison | Software Engineer in Test: Will Meek | Backend Engineering: Fabien Catteau, Olivier Gonzalez, Tetiana Chupryna, Adam Cohen, Igor Frenkel | Frontend Engineering: Dheeraj Joshi | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designer: [Secure & Protect UX Team (shared)] | 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: Steve Loyd (Acting) | Focus: Composition Analysis Paid GMAU | Features in this Group

• Dependency Scanning Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• License Compliance Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Threat Insights group

Engineering totals: 3 FE, 4 BE

Slack Channel: g_secure_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, Michał Zając, Mehmet Emin Inac, Subashis Chakraborty | Frontend Engineering: Dave Pisek, Daniel Tian, Savas Vedova | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designer: Andy Volpe | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: | Internal Customer: Security Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Steve Loyd (Acting) | Focus: Threat Insights Paid GMAU | Features in this Group

• Vulnerability Management Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Vulnerability Research group

Engineering totals: 4 BE

Slack Channel: g_secure-vulnerability-research | Product Manager: Taylor McCaslin | Product Marketing Manager: Cindy Blake | Support: Greg Myers | Backend Engineering Manager: Mark Art | Backend Engineering: Julian Thome, James Johnson, Isaac Dawson, Mark Art | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Security Department (TBD), Engineering Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Steve Loyd (Acting) | Focus: Paid GMAU | Features in this Group

• Vulnerability Database | Direction Page • Category Health
• Security Benchmarking | Direction Page • Category Health

Protect stage

Slack Channel: s_protect | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/protect | Handbook

Container Security group

Engineering totals: 2 FE, 4 BE

Slack Channel: g_protect_container_security | Product Manager: Sam White | Product Marketing Manager: Cindy Blake | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Thiago Figueiró | Frontend Engineering Manager: Lindsay Kerr | Backend Engineering: Can Eldem, Zamir Martins Filho, Alan (Maciej) Paruszewski, Sashi Kumar Kumaresan | Frontend Engineering: Zamir Martins Filho, Alexander Turinske | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designer: Annabel Dunstone Gray | Technical Writer: Nick Gaskill | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Security Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Steve Loyd (Acting) | Focus: Container Security Paid GMAC | Features in this Group

• WAF Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Security Orchestration New in 2021 | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Container Network Security Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Container Host Security Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Container Scanning Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Growth section

Product: Hila Qu | Development: Wayne Haber | Support: Shaun McCann | Product Marketing: William Chia | Quality: Vincy Wilson | Analyst Relations: Ryan Ragozzine | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith

Growth stage

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

Activation group

Engineering totals: 2 BE

Slack Channel: g_activation | Handbook | Product Manager: Jensen Stava | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Engineering Manager: Phil Calder | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering: Alex Buijs, Nicolas Dular | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Jeff Crow | Product Designer: [Emily Bauman] | Technical Writer: [Kati Paizee] | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Customer Success: Hugo Azevedo | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Features in this Group

• Activation Experiment | Direction Page • Category Health
• Onboarding | Direction Page • Category Health

Conversion group

Engineering totals: 2 BE

Slack Channel: g_conversion | Handbook | Product Manager: Sam Awezec | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Engineering Manager: Phil Calder | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering: Alper Akgun, Dallas Reedy | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Jeff Crow | Product Designer: Kevin Comoli | Technical Writer: [Kati Paizee] | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Customer Success: Hugo Azevedo | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Features in this Group

• Conversion Experiment | Direction Page • Category Health

Expansion group

Engineering totals: 2 BE

Slack Channel: g_expansion | Handbook | Product Manager: [Sam Awezec (acting)] | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Engineering Manager: Phil Calder | Support: Collen Kriel | Backend Engineering: Doug Stull, Jackie Fraser | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Jeff Crow | Product Designers: Matej Latin, Kevin Comoli | Technical Writer: [Kati Paizee] | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Customer Success: Hugo Azevedo | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Features in this Group

• Expansion Experiment | Direction Page • Category Health

Adoption group

Engineering totals: 2 BE

Slack Channel: g_adoption | Handbook | Product Manager: Michael Karampalas | Product Marketing Manager: Brian Glanz | Engineering Manager: Phil Calder | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering: Jeremy Jackson, Jay Swain | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Jeff Crow | Product Designer: Matej Latin | Technical Writer: [Kati Paizee] | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Customer Success: Hugo Azevedo | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Features in this Group

• Adoption Experiment | Direction Page • Category Health

Product Intelligence group

Engineering totals: 2 FE, 7 BE

Handbook | Product Manager: Keanon O'Keefe | Product Marketing Manager: Cormac Foster | Support: Collen Kriel | Backend Engineering Manager: Jerome Ng | Backend Engineering: Alina Mihaila, Alishan 'Ali' Ladhani, Mikołaj Wawrzyniak, Jerome Ng, Piotr Skorupa, Luis Mejia, Rajendra Kadam | Frontend Engineering: Jerome Ng, Axel García | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Jeff Crow | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: [Kati Paizee] | 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 | Features in this Group

• Product Analytics Minimal | Documentation • Category Health
• Usage Ping Viable | Category Health
• Privacy Control Center Planned 2021 | Category Health

Fulfillment section

Product: Justin Farris | Development: Wayne Haber | Support: Tom Atkins | Product Marketing: William Chia | Quality: Vincy Wilson | Analyst Relations: | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith

Fulfillment stage

Product Management: Justin Farris | Product Marketing Manager: William Chia

Purchase group

Engineering totals: 5 FE, 5 BE

Slack Channel: g_purchase | Product Manager: [Tatyana Golubeva] | Product Marketing Manager: William Chia | Support: Rene Verschoor | Backend Engineering Manager: Chris Baus | Frontend Engineering Manager: [Ragnar Hardarson] | Software Engineer in Test: Chloe Liu | Backend Engineering: Reuben Pereira, Ryan Cobb, Qingyu Zhao, Shreyas Agarwal, Josianne Hyson | Frontend Engineering: Vitaly Slobodin, Ammar Alakkad, Andrei Stoicescu, Michael Lunøe, Angelo Gulina | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Jeff Crow | Product Designer: Emily Sybrant | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Suzanne Selhorn | 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 | Features in this Group

• Purchase | Direction Page • Category Health

License group

Engineering totals: 6 BE

Slack Channel: g_license | Product Manager: [Teresa Tison] | Product Marketing Manager: William Chia | Support: Keven Hughes | Backend Engineering Manager: James Lopez | Software Engineer in Test: Dan Davison | Backend Engineering: Rubén Dávila, Mark Chao, Tyler Amos, Amparo Luna, Corinna Wiesner, Vladlena Shumilo | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Jeff Crow | Product Designer: [Timothy Noah] | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Suzanne Selhorn | 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 | Features in this Group

• License | Direction Page • Category Health

Utilization group

Engineering totals: 5 BE

Slack Channel: g_utilization | Product Manager: Amanda Rueda | Product Marketing Manager: William Chia | Support: Donique Smit | Backend Engineering Manager: Chase Southard | Software Engineer in Test: Dan Davison | Backend Engineering: Jason Goodman, Krasimir Angelov, Etienne Baqué, Chase Southard, Vijay Hawoldar | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Jeff Crow | Product Designer: Matthew Nearents | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Suzanne Selhorn | 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 | Features in this Group

• Utilization | Direction Page • Category Health

Enablement section

Product: Joshua Lambert | Development: Chun Du | Support: Jason Colyer | Product Marketing: William Chia | Quality: Tanya Pazitny | Analyst Relations: Ryan Ragozzine | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith

Enablement stage

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

Distribution group

Engineering totals: 8 BE

Slack Channel: g_distribution | Slack Alias: @distributionteam | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/distribution | Handbook | Product Manager: Dilan Orrino | Product Marketing Manager: William Chia | Support: Diana Stanley | Backend Engineering Manager: Steven Wilson | Software Engineer in Test: Nailia Iskhakova | Backend Engineering: David 'DJ' Mountney, Jason Plum, Balasankar "Balu" C, Robert Marshall, Hossein Pursultani, Gerard Hickey, Dustin Collins, Mitch Nielsen | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Andrej Kiripolský | 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 | Focus: Distribution PPI | Features in this Group

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

Geo group

Engineering totals: 1 FE, 7 BE

Slack Channel: g_geo | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/geo-team | Handbook | Product Manager: [Nick Nguyen (acting)] | Product Marketing Manager: William Chia | Support: Catalin Irimie, John Long | Backend Engineering Manager: Nick Nguyen | Frontend Engineering Manager: Nick Nguyen | Software Engineers in Test: Jennie Louie, Nick Westbury | Backend Engineering: Valery Sizov, Gabriel Mazetto, Douglas Barbosa Alexandre, Ian Baum, Michael Kozono, Aakriti Gupta, Alex Ives | Frontend Engineering: Zack Cuddy | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Andrej Kiripolský | Product Designer: Sunjung Park | Technical Writer: Axil | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Internal Customer: Infrastructure Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Focus: Geo Paid GMAU | Features in this Group

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

Memory group

Engineering totals: 4 BE

Slack Channel: g_memory | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/memory-team | Handbook | Product Manager: Fabian Zimmer (Interim) | Product Marketing Manager: William Chia | Support: Muhamed Huseinbašić | Backend Engineering Manager: Changzheng Liu | Software Engineer in Test: Grant Young | Backend Engineering: Kamil Trzciński, Aleksei Lipniagov, Matthias Käppler, Nikola Milojevic | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Andrej Kiripolský | Technical Writer: Marcia Ramos | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Internal Customers: Quality Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Focus: Memory PPI | Features in this Group

• Memory | Direction Page • Category Health

Global Search group

Engineering totals: 2 BE

Slack Channel: g_global_search | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/search-team | Handbook | Product Manager: John McGuire | Product Marketing Manager: William Chia | Support: [Vlad Stoianovici] | Backend Engineering Manager: Changzheng Liu | Frontend Engineering Manager: Changzheng Liu (Interim) | Software Engineer in Test: Erick Banks | Backend Engineering: Dmitry Gruzd, Terri Chu | Frontend Engineering: | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Andrej Kiripolský | Product Designer: Nick Brandt | Technical Writer: Marcia Ramos | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Internal Customers: Engineering Department (TBD), Customer Success (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Focus: Paid GMAU | Features in this Group

• Global Search Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Database group

Engineering totals: 2 BE

Slack Channel: g_database | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/database-team | Handbook | Product Manager: Fabian Zimmer (Interim) | Product Marketing Manager: William Chia | Support: Ben Prescott | Backend Engineering Manager: Craig Gomes | Backend Engineering: Andreas Brandl, Patrick Bair | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Andrej Kiripolský | Content Marketing: TBD | Technical Writer: Marcia Ramos | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Internal Customers: Quality Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Focus: Database PPI | Features in this Group

• Database | Direction Page • Category Health

Sharding group

Engineering totals: 4 BE

Slack Channel: g_sharding | GitLab Group: @TBD | Handbook | Product Manager: Fabian Zimmer | Product Marketing Manager: William Chia | Support: Ben Prescott | Backend Engineering Manager: Craig Gomes | Backend Engineering: Yorick Peterse, Dylan Griffith, Yannis Roussos, Thong Kuah | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Andrej Kiripolský | Content Marketing: TBD | Technical Writer: Marcia Ramos | Application Security Engineer: Andrew Kelly | Internal Customers: Quality Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Focus: Database PPI | Features in this Group

• Sharding | Direction Page • Category Health

Infrastructure group

Slack Channel: infrastructure-lounge | GitLab Group: @gitlab-com/gl-infra | Handbook | Product Manager: Andrew Thomas | Product Marketing Manager: William Chia | Technical Writer: Marcia Ramos | Application Security Engineer: TBD | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Focus: Paid GMAU | Features in this Group

• Infrastructure | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Single-Engineer Groups section

Learn stage

Slack Channel: s_learn | Product Management: David DeSanto | Development: Stan Hu

Applied Machine Learning group

Slack Channel: g_machine-learning | Features in this Group

• Automated Portfolio Management | Direction Page • Category Health
• Insider Threat | Direction Page • Category Health
• Intelligent Code Security | Direction Page • Category Health

MLOps group

Slack Channel: g_machine-learning | Features in this Group

• MLOps | Direction Page • Category Health

DataOps group

Slack Channel: g_machine-learning | Features in this Group

• DataOps | Direction Page • Category Health

Mobile stage

Product Management: David DeSanto

DevOps for Mobile Apps group

Slack Channel: g_mobile_devops | Features in this Group

• Mobile App Signing & Deployment Management | Direction Page • Category Health

Deploy stage

Product Management: Kenny Johnston

Five Minute Production App group

Engineering totals: 2 BE

Slack Channel: 5-minute-production-app | Product Sponsor: Kenny Johnston | Backend Engineering: Darby Frey, Sri Rangan | Focus: [Five Minute Production App AMAU] | Features in this Group

• 5 Minute Production App | Direction Page • Category Health

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, protect, 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. Project Management = Issue Tracking + Kanban Boards + Time Tracking
3. 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
• to-do list
• GraphQL API foundational code

Other functionality in Create stage

Source Code group

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

Code Review group

• Merge Requests

Other functionality in Verify

• Runner

Other functionality in Secure stage

Composition Analysis group

• Dependency List

Threat Insights group

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

Other functionality in Protect stage

Container Security group

• Policy Settings
• Security Approvals

Other functionality in Monitor stage

Health group

• Operations Dashboard
• Resolve Workflow
• Improve Workflows
• GitLab Self-monitoring
• Instrumentation Workflow
• Triaging Workflow

Other functionality in Manage stage

Access group

• CAPTCHA integration

Facilitated functionality

Some product areas are have a broad impact 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.
• UI components available through our design system, Pajamas.

While the mental models for these areas are maintained by specific stage groups, everyone is encouraged to contribute within the guidelines that those teams establish. For example, anyone can contribute a new setting following the established guidelines for Settings. When a contribution is submitted that does not conform to those guidelines, we merge it and "fix forward" to encourage innovation.

If you encounter an issue falling into a facilitated area:

• For issues that relate to updating the guidelines, apply the group::category label for the facilitating group.
• For issues that relate to adding content related to a facilitated area, apply the group::category label for the most closely related group. For example, when adding a new setting related to Merge Requests, apply the group::source code label.

Categories A-Z

Category	Group
5 Minute Production App (five_minute_production_app)	Five Minute Production App
API (api)	Ecosystem
Accessibility Testing (accessibility_testing)	Testing
Activation Experiment (experimentation_activation)	Activation
Adoption Experiment (experimentation_adoption)	Adoption
Advanced Deployments (advanced_deployments)	Release
Attack Emulation (attack_emulation)	Dynamic Analysis
Audit Events (audit_events)	Compliance
Audit Reports (audit_reports)	Compliance
Authentication and Authorization (authentication_and_authorization)	Access
Auto DevOps (auto_devops)	Configure
Automated Portfolio Management (auto_portfolio_mgmt)	Applied Machine Learning
Backup/Restore of GitLab instances (backup_restore)	Geo
Boards (boards)	Project Management
Browser Performance Testing (browser_performance)	Testing
ChatOps (chatops)	Configure
Cloud Native Installation (cloud_native_installation)	Distribution
Cluster Cost Management (cluster_cost_management)	Configure
Code Analytics (code_analytics)	Optimize
Code Quality (code_quality)	Static Analysis
Code Review (code_review)	Code Review
Code Testing and Coverage (code_testing)	Testing
Compliance Management (compliance_management)	Compliance
Container Host Security (container_host_security)	Container Security
Container Network Security (container_network_security)	Container Security
Container Registry (container_registry)	Package
Container Scanning (container_scanning)	Container Security
Continuous Delivery (continuous_delivery)	Release
Continuous Integration (CI) (continuous_integration)	Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration Scaling (CI Scaling) (continuous_integration_scaling)	Continuous Integration
Conversion Experiment (experimentation_conversion)	Conversion
DAST (dynamic_application_security_testing)	Dynamic Analysis
DataOps (dataops)	DataOps
Database (database)	Database
Dependency Firewall (dependency_firewall)	Package
Dependency Proxy (dependency_proxy)	Package
Dependency Scanning (dependency_scanning)	Composition Analysis
Design Management (design_management)	Product Planning
DevOps Reports (devops_reports)	Optimize
Disaster Recovery (disaster_recovery)	Geo
Editor Extension (editor_extension)	Code Review
Epics (epics)	Product Planning
Error Tracking (error_tracking)	Monitor
Expansion Experiment (experimentation_expansion)	Expansion
FE/UX Foundations (foundations)	Ecosystem
Feature Flags (feature_flags)	Release
Fuzz Testing (fuzz_testing)	Dynamic Analysis
GDK (gdk)	Ecosystem
Geo-replication (geo_replication)	Geo
Git LFS (git_lfs)	Package
GitLab Documentation Site (gitlab_docs)	Editor
GitLab Handbook (gitlab_handbook)	Not owned
GitLab Runner (runner)	Runner
GitLab Self-Monitoring (self_monitoring)	Monitor
Gitaly (gitaly)	Gitaly
Global Search (global_search)	Global Search
Helm Chart Registry (helm_chart_registry)	Package
IAST (interactive_application_security_testing)	Dynamic Analysis
Importers (importers)	Import
Incident Management (incident_management)	Monitor
Infrastructure (infrastructure)	Infrastructure
Infrastructure as Code (infrastructure_as_code)	Configure
Insider Threat (insider_threat)	Applied Machine Learning
Insights (insights)	Optimize
Integrations (integrations)	Ecosystem
Intelligent Code Security (intel_code_security)	Applied Machine Learning
Internationalization (internationalization)	Import
Issue Tracking (issue_tracking)	Project Management
Jenkins Importer (jenkins_importer)	Pipeline Authoring
Jira Importer (jira_importer)	Ecosystem
Kubernetes Management (kubernetes_management)	Configure
License (license)	License
License Compliance (license_compliance)	Composition Analysis
Live Preview (live_preview)	Editor
Load Testing (load_testing)	Testing
Logging (logging)	Monitor
MLOps (mlops)	MLOps
Memory (memory)	Memory
Merge Trains (merge_trains)	Continuous Integration
Metrics (metrics)	Monitor
Mobile App Signing & Deployment Management (mobile_signing_deployment)	DevOps for Mobile Apps
Navigation & Settings (navigation)	Editor
Omnibus Package (omnibus_package)	Distribution
Onboarding (onboarding)	Activation
Package Registry (package_registry)	Package
Pages (pages)	Release
Pipeline Authoring (pipeline_authoring)	Pipeline Authoring
Planning Analytics (planning_analytics)	Optimize
Privacy Control Center (privacy_control_center)	Product Intelligence
Product Analytics (product_analytics)	Product Intelligence
Projects (projects)	Project Management
Purchase (purchase)	Purchase
Quality Management (quality_management)	Certify
Release Evidence (release_evidence)	Package
Release Orchestration (release_orchestration)	Release
Requirements Management (requirements_management)	Certify
Review Apps (review_apps)	Release
Roadmaps (roadmaps)	Product Planning
Runbooks (runbooks)	Configure
SAST (static_application_security_testing)	Static Analysis
Secret Detection (secret_detection)	Static Analysis
Secrets Management (secrets_management)	Configure
Security Benchmarking (security_benchmarking)	Vulnerability Research
Security Orchestration (security_orchestration)	Container Security
Serverless (serverless)	Configure
Service Desk (service_desk)	Certify
Sharding (sharding)	Sharding
Snippets (snippets)	Editor
Source Code Management (source_code_management)	Source Code
Static Site Editor (static_site_editor)	Editor
Subgroups (subgroups)	Access
Synthetic Monitoring (synthetic_monitoring)	Monitor
Templates (templates)	Import
Time Tracking (time_tracking)	Project Management
Tracing (tracing)	Monitor
Usability Testing (usability_testing)	Testing
Usage Ping (usage_ping)	Product Intelligence
Users (users)	Access
Utilization (utilization)	Utilization
Value Stream Management (value_stream_management)	Optimize
Vulnerability Database (vulnerability_database)	Vulnerability Research
Vulnerability Management (vulnerability_management)	Threat Insights
WAF (web_firewall)	Container Security
Web IDE (web_ide)	Editor
Wiki (wiki)	Editor