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
      • Workspace 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 stage
      • Integrations group
      • Foundations group
  • Ops section
    • Verify stage
      • Pipeline Execution 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
  • ModelOps section
    • ModelOps stage
      • Applied Machine Learning group
      • MLOps group
      • DataOps 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
  • SaaS Platforms section
    • SaaS Platforms stage
      • Delivery group
      • Scalability group
      • Project Horse group
  • Single-Engineer Groups section
    • 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
    • CI Group
  • 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
  • Other functionality in Ecosystem stage
  • Other functionality in Engineering Productivity
  • Facilitated functionality
• Categories A-Z

Principles - Processes - Categorization - GitLab the Product - PM Responsibilities - Being a PM - Performance Indicators - Leadership

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: are aligned logically starting with the 7 loop stages of Plan, Create, Verify, Package, Release, Configure, and Monitor. We then add the value stages that we talk about in marketing, these include Manage, Secure, and Protect. Lastly, we add the team stages, Ecosystem, Growth, and Enablement. These stages have groups that rally around the same users, GitLab integrators, GitLab itself, and GitLab administrators respectively. 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.
• This hierarchy includes both paid and unpaid features.

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)
6. Senior Manager, Technical Writing

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, Blair Christopher | 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

Development totals: 4 BE, 1 FE

Product Manager: Hannah Sutor | 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: Bogdan Denkovych, Drew Blessing, Imre Farkas, Liam McAndrew, Manoj M J | Frontend Engineering: Dennis Tang, Peter Hegman | Product Design Manager: Blair Christopher | UX Researcher: Anne Lasch | Product Designer: Daniel Mora | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Evan Read | Application Security Engineer: Rohit Shambhuni | 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

Workspace group

Development totals: 5 BE, 1 FE

Product Manager: Orit Golowinski | Product Marketing Manager: Cindy Blake | Support: Cynthia Ng (SaaS), TBD (SM) | Backend Engineering Manager: Małgorzata Ksionek (Acting) | Frontend Engineering Manager: Dennis Tang | Software Engineer in Test: Sanad Liaquat | Backend Engineering: Bogdan Denkovych, Drew Blessing, Imre Farkas, Liam McAndrew, Manoj M J | Frontend Engineering: Dennis Tang, Peter Hegman | Product Design Manager: Blair Christopher | UX Researcher: Anne Lasch | Product Designer: Nick Post | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski | Application Security Engineer: Rohit Shambhuni | 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 Workspace Paid GMAU] | Features in this Group

• Subgroups Complete | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Users | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Projects | Documentation • Category Health

Compliance group

Development totals: 1 BE, 2 FE

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, Max Woolf | Frontend Engineering: Dennis Tang, Jiaan Louw, Robert Hunt | Product Design Manager: Blair Christopher | UX Researcher: Anne Lasch | Product Designer: Austin Regnery | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Evan Read | Application Security Engineer: [Nick Malcolm] | 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

Development totals: 2 BE, 1 FE

Product Manager: Haris Delalić | Product Marketing Manager: Cormac Foster | Support: Cynthia Ng (Interim) | Backend Engineering Manager: Liam McAndrew | Frontend Engineering Manager: Martin Wortschack | Software Engineer in Test: Andrejs Cunskis | Backend Engineering: George Koltsov, Kassio Borges, Liam McAndrew | Frontend Engineering: Illya Klymov | Product Design Manager: Blair Christopher | UX Researcher: Anne Lasch | Product Designer: TBD | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Nick Gaskill | Application Security Engineer: [Nick Malcolm] | 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

Optimize group

Development totals: 3 BE, 2 FE

Product Manager: Orit Golowinski | Product Marketing Manager: Cormac Foster | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Dan Jensen | Frontend Engineering Manager: Martin Wortschack | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: Adam Hegyi, Dan Jensen, Magdalena Frankiewicz, Pavel Shutsin | Frontend Engineering: Brandon Labuschagne, Ezekiel Kigbo | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer (Interim) | UX Researcher: Anne Lasch | Product Designer: Nick Post | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Fiona Neill | Application Security Engineer: [Nick Malcolm] | 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
• Value Stream Management Viable | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Plan stage

Product Management: Melissa Ushakov

Project Management group

Development totals: 4 BE, 4 FE

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: Alexandru Croitor, Brett Walker, Heinrich Lee Yu, Jake Lear, Mario Celi | Frontend Engineering: Coung Ngo, Natalia Tepluhina, Simon Knox, Scott Stern | Product Design Manager: Blair Christopher | 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

• Team Planning Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Planning Analytics Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Product Planning group

Development totals: 5 BE, 4 FE

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: Charlie Ablett, Eugenia Grieff, Felipe Artur, Jan Provaznik, Jarka Košanová, John Hope | Frontend Engineering: Eulyeon K., Florie Guibert, Kushal Pandya, Rajat Jain | Product Design Manager: Blair Christopher | 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

• Portfolio Management Viable | 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: Blair Christopher | UX Researcher: Anne Lasch | Product Designer: TBD | 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

Development totals: 4 BE, 2 FE

Handbook | Product Manager: Sarah Waldner | Product Marketing Manager: Brian Glanz | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Sean Carroll | Frontend Engineering Manager: André Luís | Software Engineer in Test: Mark Lapierre | Backend Engineering: Igor Drozdov, Nick Thomas, Robert May, Vasilii Iakliushin | Frontend Engineering: André Luís, Jacques Erasmus, Samantha Ming | Product Design Manager: Marcel van Remmerden | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designer: Mike Nichols | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Amy Qualls | Application Security Engineer: Costel Maxim | Customer Success: Simon Mansfield, Sophie Pouliquen | 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

Development totals: 5 BE, 3 FE

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: David Sincheol Kim, Gary Holtz, Kerri Miller, Marc Shaw, Patrick Bajao | Frontend Engineering: André Luís, Phil Hughes, Thomas Randolph, Tomas Vik | Product Design Manager: Marcel van Remmerden | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designers: Annabel Dunstone Gray, 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

Development totals: 2 BE, 4 FE

Handbook | Product Manager: Eric Schurter | Product Marketing Manager: Brian Glanz | Support: John Long | Backend Engineering Manager: David O'Regan | Frontend Engineering Manager: David O'Regan | Software Engineer in Test: Anastasia McDonald | Backend Engineering: Chad Woolley, David O'Regan, Francisco Javier López | Frontend Engineering: David O'Regan, Denys Mishunov, Enrique Alcántara, Himanshu Kapoor, Paul Slaughter | Product Design Manager: Marcel van Remmerden | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designer: Michael Le | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Amy Qualls | Application Security Engineer: Michael Henriksen | Customer Success: Simon Mansfield, Sophie Pouliquen | 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

Gitaly group

Development totals: 7 BE

Product Manager: Mark Wood | Product Marketing Manager: Brian Glanz | Support: Will Chandler | Backend Engineering Manager: Tim Zallmann (Acting) | Software Engineer in Test: John McDonnell | Backend Engineering: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Christian Couder, James Fargher, Patrick Steinhardt, Pavlo Strokov, Sami Hiltunen, Toon Claes | Technical Writer: Evan Read | Application Security Engineer: Costel Maxim | Customer Success: Simon Mansfield, Sophie Pouliquen | 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 stage

Handbook | Product Management: Melissa Ushakov

Integrations group

Development totals: 4 BE, 2 FE

Slack Channel: g_ecosystem_integrations | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/ecosystem-team | Product Manager: Melissa Ushakov | Product Marketing Manager: Brian Glanz | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Arturo Herrero (Acting) | Frontend Engineering Manager: Arturo Herrero (Acting) | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: Alex Kalderimis, Andy Soiron, Luke Duncalfe, Markus Koller | Frontend Engineering: Justin Ho, Tom Quirk | Product Design Manager: Marcel van Remmerden | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designer: Libor Vanc | Technical Writer: Kati Paizee | Application Security Engineer: Michael Henriksen | Customer Success: Simon Mansfield, Sophie Pouliquen | Internal Customers: Alliances Department (TBD), Customer Success (TBD), Quality Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD), Engineering Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: [Ecosystem Integrations GMAU] | Features in this Group

• Integrations Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Foundations group

Development totals: 3 FE

Slack Channel: g_ecosystem_foundations | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/ecosystem-team | Product Manager: Melissa Ushakov | Support: TBD | Frontend Engineering Manager: Lukas Eipert | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Frontend Engineering: Lukas Eipert, Mark Florian, Mike Greiling, Olena HK. | Product Design Manager: Taurie Davis | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designers: Jarek Ostrowski, Jeremy Elder | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Michael Henriksen | Customer Success: Simon Mansfield, Sophie Pouliquen | Internal Customers: Alliances Department (TBD), Customer Success (TBD), Quality Department (TBD), Infrastructure Department (TBD), Engineering Department (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: [Driving Pajamas adoption] | Features in this Group

• Foundations Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Navigation & Settings | Direction Page • Category Health
• GitLab Documentation Site | 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: Will Leidheiser | Support: Lee Matos, Lyle Kozloff | Product Marketing: | Quality: Joanna Shih | Analyst Relations: Ryan Ragozzine

Verify stage

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

Pipeline Execution group

Development totals: 5 BE, 2 FE

Product Manager: James Heimbuck | Product Marketing Manager: Parker Ennis | Support: [Caleb Cooper] | Backend Engineering Manager: Cheryl Li | Frontend Engineering Manager: Sam Beckham | Software Engineer in Test: Richard Chong | Backend Engineering: Allison Browne, Avielle Wolfe, Drew Cimino, Fabio Pitino, Marius Bobin | Frontend Engineering: Jose Ivan Vargas, Payton Burdette | Product Design Manager: Rayana Verissimo | UX Researcher: TBD | 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 & 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 Abuse Prevention New in 2021 | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Pipeline Authoring group

Development totals: 3 BE, 2 FE

Product Manager: Dov Hershkovitch | Product Marketing Manager: Parker Ennis | Support: [Caleb Cooper] | Backend Engineering Manager: Mark Nuzzo | Frontend Engineering Manager: Sam Beckham | Software Engineer in Test: Tiffany Rea | Backend Engineering: Furkan Ayhan, Laura Montemayor, Matija Čupić | Frontend Engineering: Frédéric Caplette, Mireya Andres | Product Design Manager: Rayana Verissimo | UX Researcher: TBD | 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 & Runner SMAU | Features in this Group

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

Runner group

Development totals: 6 BE, 1 FE

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: Adrien Kohlbecker, Arran Walker, Georgi Georgiev, Pedro Pombeiro, Romuald Atchadé, Tomasz Maczukin | Frontend Engineering: Miguel Rincon | Product Design Manager: Rayana Verissimo | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designer: Gina Doyle | 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 & Runner SMAU | Features in this Group

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

Testing group

Development totals: 2 BE, 1 FE

Product Manager: James Heimbuck | Product Marketing Manager: Parker Ennis | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Scott Hampton | Frontend Engineering Manager: Scott Hampton | Backend Engineering: Erick Bajao, Maxime Orefice | Frontend Engineering: Miranda Fluharty | Product Design Manager: Rayana Verissimo | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designer: Gina Doyle | 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
• Performance Testing Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Usability Testing Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Accessibility Testing Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Build Artifacts New in 2021 | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Review Apps Complete | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Package stage

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

Package group

Development totals: 6 BE, 1 FE

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: [Michelle Torres] | Frontend Engineering Manager: [Michelle Torres] | Software Engineer in Test: Sofia Vistas | Backend Engineering: David Fernandez, Hayley Swimelar, Hugo Ortiz, Jaime Martínez, João Pereira, Steve Abrams | Frontend Engineering: Nicolò Maria Mezzopera | Product Design Manager: Rayana Verissimo | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designer: Katie Macoy | 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 GMAU | Features in this Group

• Container Registry Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Package Registry Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Helm Chart Registry Viable | 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 stage

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

Release group

Development totals: 2 BE, 1 FE

Product Manager: Chris Balane | Product Marketing Manager: Parker Ennis | Support: James McGrew | Backend Engineering Manager: Nicole Williams | Backend Engineering: Shinya Maeda, Vladimir Shushlin | Frontend Engineering: Andrew Fontaine | Product Design Manager: Rayana Verissimo | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Product Designer: Daniel Fosco | Content Marketing: Chrissie Buchanan | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Dominic Couture | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Delivery Team (TBD), Distribution Team (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
• Feature Flags Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Release Orchestration Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Release Evidence Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Pages Complete | Marketing Page • Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Environment Management Minimal | 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

Development totals: 5 BE, 1 FE

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: Hordur Freyr Yngvason, João Cunha, Matt Kasa, Mikhail Mazurskiy, Tiger Watson | Frontend Engineering: Anna Vovchenko | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Product Designer: TBD | 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 GMAU | 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
• ChatOps Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Secrets Management Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Delivery Management New in 2021 | 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

Development totals: 4 BE, 1 FE

Slack Channel: s_monitor | Slack Alias: @monitor-group | Handbook | Product Manager: Alana Bellucci | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: Cody West | Backend Engineering Manager: Crystal Poole | Frontend Engineering Manager: Crystal Poole | Backend Engineering: Crystal Poole, Peter Leitzen, Sarah Yasonik, Sean Arnold, Vitali Tatarintev | Frontend Engineering: Crystal Poole, Tristan Read | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | 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 GMAU | Features in this Group

• Error Tracking Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Incident Management Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• On-call Schedule Management New in 2021 | 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 2022 | Direction Page • Category Health
• GitLab Self-Monitoring | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health
• Runbooks Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Sec section

Product: Hillary Benson | Development: Todd Stadelhofer | Product Design Managers: Justin Mandell | 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

Development totals: 5 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 (Acting) | Product Marketing Manager: Cindy Blake | Support: Greg Myers | Backend Engineering Manager: Thomas Woodham | Frontend Engineering Manager: Neil McCorrison | Software Engineer in Test: Careem Ahamed | Backend Engineering: Daniel Searles, Lucas Charles, Ross Fuhrman, Saikat Sarkar, Thomas Woodham, Zach Rice | Frontend Engineering: | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designer: Rebecca "Becka" Lippert | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: Bryan Miller, Brian Wald, Chloe Whitestone | 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

Development totals: 5 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: Kate Grechishkina | Backend Engineering Manager: Seth Berger | Frontend Engineering Manager: Neil McCorrison | Backend Engineering: Craig Smith, Cam Swords, Herber Madrigal, Mike Eddington, Philip Cunningham, Seth Berger | Frontend Engineering: | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designers: Camellia Yang, Michael Fangman | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: Bryan Miller, Brian Wald, Chloe Whitestone | 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 | Direction Page • Category Health
• Attack Emulation | Category Health
• Fuzz Testing Viable | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Composition Analysis group

Development totals: 4 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: Adam Cohen, Fabien Catteau, Igor Frenkel, Olivier Gonzalez, Tetiana Chupryna | Frontend Engineering: | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designer: Justin Mandell | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: Bryan Miller, Brian Wald, Chloe Whitestone | 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 Minimal | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Threat Insights group

Development totals: 4 BE, 3 FE

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, Mehmet Emin Inac, Michał Zając, Subashis Chakraborty | Frontend Engineering: Daniel Tian, Dave Pisek, Savas Vedova | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designer: Andy Volpe | Technical Writer: Fiona Neill | 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

Development totals: 2 BE

Slack Channel: g_secure-vulnerability-research | Product Manager: Taylor McCaslin (Acting) | Product Marketing Manager: Cindy Blake | Support: Greg Myers | Backend Engineering Manager: Mark Art | Backend Engineering: Isaac Dawson, Julian Thome, Mark Art | Technical Writer: Fiona Neill | 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

Development totals: 4 BE, 1 FE

Slack Channel: g_protect_container_security | Product Manager: Sam White | Product Marketing Manager: Cindy Blake | Support: Joseph Joshua | Backend Engineering Manager: Thiago Figueiró | Frontend Engineering Manager: Lindsay Kerr | Backend Engineering: Dominic Bauer, Brian Williams, Alan (Maciej) Paruszewski, Sashi Kumar Kumaresan | Frontend Engineering: Alexander Turinske | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designer: Camellia Yang | 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

• 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

ModelOps section

Product: David DeSanto | Development: Wayne Haber | Support: TBD | Product Marketing: TBD | Quality: TBD

ModelOps stage

Slack Channel: s_modelops | Handbook | Product Management: Taylor McCaslin

Applied Machine Learning group

Development totals: 1 BE

Slack Channel: g_applied_ml | Handbook | Product Manager: Taylor McCaslin | Engineering Manager: Monmayuri Ray | Backend Engineering: Alexander Chueshev | Features in this Group

• Workflow Automation | Direction Page • Category Health
• Insider Threat | Direction Page • Category Health
• Intelligent Code Security | Direction Page • Category Health

MLOps group

Development totals: 1 BE

Slack Channel: g_machine-learning | Product Manager: Taylor McCaslin | Backend Engineering: Eduardo Bonet | Features in this Group

• MLOps | Direction Page • Category Health

DataOps group

Slack Channel: g_machine-learning | Product Manager: Taylor McCaslin | Features in this Group

• DataOps | Direction Page • Category Health

Growth section

Product: Hila Qu | Development: Wayne Haber | Product Design Managers: Jacki Bauer | 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

Development 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, Eugie Limpin | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Nick Hertz | 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

Development totals: 3 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, Sam Figueroa | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Nick Hertz | 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

Development totals: 2 BE

Slack Channel: g_expansion | Handbook | Product Manager: Gayle Doud | 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: Nick Hertz | 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

• Expansion Experiment | Direction Page • Category Health

Adoption group

Development 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: Jay Swain, Jeremy Jackson | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Nick Hertz | 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

Development totals: 7 BE, 1 FE

Handbook | Product Manager: Amanda Rueda (Acting) | Product Marketing Manager: Cormac Foster | Support: Collen Kriel | Backend Engineering Manager: Nicolas Dular (Interim) | Backend Engineering: Alina Mihaila, Alishan 'Ali' Ladhani, Luis Mejia, Mikołaj Wawrzyniak, Niko Belokolodov, Piotr Skorupa, Rajendra Kadam | Frontend Engineering: Axel García | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: TBD | Content Marketing: Suri Patel | Technical Writer: Fiona Neill | 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 | Documentation • Category Health
• Service Ping Viable | Documentation • Category Health
• Privacy Control Center New in 2021 | Category Health

Fulfillment section

Product: Justin Farris | Development: Wayne Haber | Product Design Managers: Jacki Bauer | Support: John Lyttle | 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

Development totals: 4 BE, 2 FE

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: Chris Baus, Josianne Hyson, Qingyu Zhao, Ryan Cobb, Shreyas Agarwal | Frontend Engineering: Angelo Gulina, Diana Zubova, Ragnar Hardarson | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Nick Hertz | 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

Development totals: 5 BE, 3 FE

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: Amparo Luna, Corinna Wiesner, James Lopez, Mark Chao, Tyler Amos, Vladlena Shumilo | Frontend Engineering: Michael Lunøe, Ragnar Hardarson, Vitaly Slobodin | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Nick Hertz | Product Designer: Tim 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

Development totals: 3 BE, 3 FE

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: Chase Southard, Etienne Baqué, Jason Goodman, Vijay Hawoldar | Frontend Engineering: Ammar Alakkad, Ragnar Hardarson, Sheldon Led | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | UX Researcher: Nick Hertz | 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 | Product Design Managers: Marcel van Remmerden | 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

Development totals: 9 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, Nathan Black | Backend Engineering Manager: Steven Wilson | Software Engineers in Test: Grant Young, Nailia Iskhakova | Backend Engineering: Balasankar "Balu" C, David 'DJ' Mountney, Dmitry Makovey, Dustin Collins, Gerard Hickey, Hossein Pursultani, Jason Plum, Mitch Nielsen, Robert Marshall | Product Design Manager: Marcel van Remmerden | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Product Designer: Sunjung Park | Technical Writer: Marcel Amirault | 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

Development totals: 7 BE, 1 FE

Slack Channel: g_geo | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/geo-team | Handbook | Product Manager: Nick Nguyen | Product Marketing Manager: William Chia | Support: Catalin Irimie, John Long | Backend Engineering Manager: Nick Nguyen | Frontend Engineering Manager: Nick Nguyen | Software Engineer in Test: Nick Westbury | Backend Engineering: Aakriti Gupta, Catalin Irimie, Douglas Barbosa Alexandre, Gabriel Mazetto, Ian Baum, Michael Kozono, Valery Sizov | Frontend Engineering: Zack Cuddy | Product Design Manager: Marcel van Remmerden | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Product Designer: Sunjung Park | Technical Writer: Marcel Amirault | 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

Development totals: 4 BE

Slack Channel: g_memory | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/memory-team | Handbook | Product Manager: Yannis Roussos | Product Marketing Manager: William Chia | Support: Muhamed Huseinbašić | Backend Engineering Manager: Changzheng Liu | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: Aleksei Lipniagov, Matthias Käppler, Nikola Milojevic, Roy Zwambag | Product Design Manager: Marcel van Remmerden | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | 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
• Redis | Direction Page • Category Health

Global Search group

Development 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: Marcel van Remmerden | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | 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

Development totals: 4 BE

Slack Channel: g_database | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/database-team | Handbook | Product Manager: Yannis Roussos | Product Marketing Manager: William Chia | Support: Ben Prescott | Backend Engineering Manager: Craig Gomes | Backend Engineering: Alex Ives, Andreas Brandl, Diogo Frazão, Krasimir Angelov | Product Design Manager: Marcel van Remmerden | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | 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

Development totals: 5 BE

Slack Channel: g_sharding | GitLab Group: @TBD | Handbook | Product Manager: Nick Nguyen | Product Marketing Manager: William Chia | Support: Ben Prescott | Backend Engineering Manager: Craig Gomes | Backend Engineering: Craig Gomes, Dylan Griffith, Kamil Trzciński, Patrick Bair, Thong Kuah, Yorick Peterse | Product Design Manager: Marcel van Remmerden | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | 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

SaaS Platforms section

Product: Joshua Lambert | Development: Marin Jankovski | Product Design Managers: Jacki Bauer | Support: Jason Colyer | Product Marketing: William Chia | Quality: Vincy Wilson | Analyst Relations: | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith

SaaS Platforms stage

Slack Channel: s_platforms | GitLab Group: @gitlab-com/gl-infra/platform | Handbook

Delivery group

Slack Channel: g_delivery | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/delivery | Handbook | Product Manager: Andrew Thomas (Life Support) | Product Marketing Manager: William Chia | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Technical Writer: Marcia Ramos | Application Security Engineer: TBD | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Features in this Group

• Delivery | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Scalability group

Slack Channel: g_scalability | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/scalability | Handbook | Product Manager: Andrew Thomas (Life Support) | Product Marketing Manager: TBD | Technical Writer: Marcia Ramos | Application Security Engineer: Rohit Shambhuni | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Features in this Group

• Scalability | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Project Horse group

Slack Channel: TBD | Slack Alias: @TBD | GitLab Group: @TBD | Handbook | Product Manager: Andrew Thomas (Interim) | Product Marketing Manager: TBD | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: [TBH] | Backend Engineering: | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Technical Writer: TBD | Application Security Engineer: TBD | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Focus: GMAU | Features in this Group

• Horse Planned 2022 | Documentation • Direction Page • Category Health

Single-Engineer Groups section

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

Development totals: 1 BE

Slack Channel: 5-minute-production-app | Product Sponsor: Kenny Johnston | Backend Engineering: 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. Networking, maybe leveraging some of the open source standards for networking and/or Terraform networking providers
3. Design, we already have design management today
4. 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. Enterprise Agile Planning (EAP) = Team Planning + Planning Analytics + Portfolio Management + Requirements Management

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
• Real-time features (excluding real-time collaboration)

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

CI Group

• CI Abuse Response

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

• Spam protection and CAPTCHA integration, not including SpamCheck

Other functionality in Ecosystem stage

• REST API foundational code
• GraphQL API foundational code
• Jira Importer

Other functionality in Engineering Productivity

• GDK

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
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
Backup/Restore of GitLab instances (backup_restore)	Geo
Build Artifacts (build_artifacts)	Testing
ChatOps (chatops)	Configure
Cloud Native Installation (cloud_native_installation)	Distribution
Cluster Cost Management (cluster_cost_management)	Configure
Code Quality (code_quality)	Static Analysis
Code Review (code_review)	Code Review
Code Search (code_search)	Not owned
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)	Pipeline Execution
Continuous Integration Scaling (CI Scaling) (continuous_integration_scaling)	Pipeline Execution
Conversion Experiment (experimentation_conversion)	Conversion
DAST (dynamic_application_security_testing)	Dynamic Analysis
DataOps (dataops)	DataOps
Database (database)	Database
Delivery (delivery)	Delivery
Delivery Management (delivery_management)	Configure
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
Environment Management (environment_management)	Release
Error Tracking (error_tracking)	Monitor
Expansion Experiment (experimentation_expansion)	Expansion
Feature Flags (feature_flags)	Release
Foundations (foundations)	Foundations
Fuzz Testing (fuzz_testing)	Dynamic Analysis
Geo-replication (geo_replication)	Geo
Git LFS (git_lfs)	Package
GitLab Documentation Site (gitlab_docs)	Foundations
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
Horse (horse)	Project Horse
IAST (interactive_application_security_testing)	Dynamic Analysis
Importers (importers)	Import
Incident Management (incident_management)	Monitor
Infrastructure as Code (infrastructure_as_code)	Configure
Insider Threat (insider_threat)	Applied Machine Learning
Integrations (integrations)	Integrations
Intelligent Code Security (intel_code_security)	Applied Machine Learning
Internationalization (internationalization)	Import
Jenkins Importer (jenkins_importer)	Pipeline Authoring
Kubernetes Management (kubernetes_management)	Configure
License (license)	License
License Compliance (license_compliance)	Composition Analysis
Live Preview (live_preview)	Editor
Logging (logging)	Monitor
MLOps (mlops)	MLOps
Memory (memory)	Memory
Merge Trains (merge_trains)	Pipeline Execution
Metrics (metrics)	Monitor
Mobile App Signing & Deployment Management (mobile_signing_deployment)	DevOps for Mobile Apps
Navigation & Settings (navigation)	Foundations
Omnibus Package (omnibus_package)	Distribution
On-call Schedule Management (on_call_schedule_management)	Monitor
Onboarding (onboarding)	Activation
Package Registry (package_registry)	Package
Pages (pages)	Release
Performance Testing (performance_testing)	Testing
Pipeline Abuse Prevention (pipeline_abuse_prevention)	Pipeline Execution
Pipeline Authoring (pipeline_authoring)	Pipeline Authoring
Planning Analytics (planning_analytics)	Project Management
Portfolio Management (portfolio_management)	Product Planning
Privacy Control Center (privacy_control_center)	Product Intelligence
Product Analytics (product_analytics)	Product Intelligence
Projects (projects)	Workspace
Purchase (purchase)	Purchase
Quality Management (quality_management)	Certify
Redis (redis)	Memory
Release Evidence (release_evidence)	Release
Release Orchestration (release_orchestration)	Release
Requirements Management (requirements_management)	Certify
Review Apps (review_apps)	Testing
Runbooks (runbooks)	Monitor
SAST (static_application_security_testing)	Static Analysis
Scalability (scalability)	Scalability
Secret Detection (secret_detection)	Static Analysis
Secrets Management (secrets_management)	Configure
Security Benchmarking (security_benchmarking)	Vulnerability Research
Security Orchestration (security_orchestration)	Container Security
Service Desk (service_desk)	Certify
Service Ping (service_ping)	Product Intelligence
Sharding (sharding)	Sharding
Snippets (snippets)	Editor
Source Code Management (source_code_management)	Source Code
Static Site Editor (static_site_editor)	Editor
Subgroups (subgroups)	Workspace
Synthetic Monitoring (synthetic_monitoring)	Monitor
Team Planning (team_planning)	Project Management
Tracing (tracing)	Monitor
Usability Testing (usability_testing)	Testing
Usage Ping (usage_ping)	Product Intelligence
Users (users)	Workspace
Utilization (utilization)	Utilization
Value Stream Management (value_stream_management)	Optimize
Vulnerability Database (vulnerability_database)	Vulnerability Research
Vulnerability Management (vulnerability_management)	Threat Insights
Web IDE (web_ide)	Editor
Wiki (wiki)	Editor
Workflow Automation (workflow_automation)	Applied Machine Learning