Product Milestones

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When planning, Product Managers plan to GitLab milestones. Here is the process for creating and maintaining them.

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• Product Milestone Creation
  • Step 1: .org
  • Step 2: .com
• Understanding Releases
• Product Milestones Usage
• Relevant links

Product Milestone Creation

One quarter ahead, the Product Operations team will create all of the necessary milestones for the next quarter:

Step 1: .org

1. Ensure that the relevant milestones are created. Go to GitLab Milestones for .org
2. Click on New milestone in the top right
3. Title the milestone with the dot release that makes sense.
   • Note: We iterate through the .0 and further for each release with the .0 release every May.
4. Set end date to the appropriate month with the 18th to the 17th
5. Closing milestones happens in the Engineering workflow

Step 2: .com

1. Ensure that .com mirrors the .org milestones for consistency in Product, Marketing etc.
2. Ensure that the relevant milestones are created. Go to GitLab Milestones for .com
3. Click on New milestone in the top right
4. Title the milestone with the dot release that matches .org.
   • Note: We iterate through the .0 and further for each release with the .0 release every May.
5. Set end date to the appropriate month with the 18th to the 17th
6. Closing milestones happens in the Engineering workflow

Understanding Releases

The release definitions are maintained by the Engineering Team and we run the end of each Milestone on the 22nd.

Product Milestones Usage

• These milestones are used create boards and Issues for each release
• The Product Development Google Calendar (WIP) - also uses these milestone names and dates.

Relevant links

• Engineering release definitions