Product sections, stages, groups, and categories

Principles - Processes - Categories - GitLab the Product - Being a PM - 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 maintained in data/stages.yml. Each stage has a corresponding devops::<stage> label under the gitlab-org and gitlab-com 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 and gitlab-com 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. Categories are maintained in data/categories.yml. Each category has a corresponding Category:<Category> label under the gitlab-org group. Category maturity is managed in the product Category Maturity Change process.
5. Features: Small, discrete functionalities, such as 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 data/categories.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. For example, “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 documentation page. Categories may also have direction and marketing page links. When linking to a category using the category name as the anchor text (such as, from the chart on the homepage), you should use the URLs in the following hierarchy:

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 and are typically used to align to a customer challenge (e.g. the need to reduce security and compliance risk) or to market segments defined by analysts such as Software Composition Analysis (SCA). Solutions are also often used to align to challenges unique to an industry vertical (e.g. financial services), or to a sales segment (e.g. SMB vs Enterprise).

Solutions typically represent a customer challenge, and we define how GitLab capabilities come together to meet that challenge, with business benefits of using our solution.

Market segments defined by analysts don’t always align to GitLab stages and categories and often include multiple categories. Two most frequently encountered are:

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.

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.

Category Statuses

Categories can have varying level of investment and development work. There are four main investment statuses:

1. Accelerated - Top category for product strategy that has received additional investment in the next year
2. Sustained - Categories where new features will be added in the next year
3. Reduced - Categories where scope and ambition is decreased although, new features will still be added in the next year
4. Maintenance - Categories where no new features will added

Typically, product direction pages will transparently state the investment status of the category for the fiscal year based on annual product themes and investment levels.

Changes

As changes to product sections, stages, groups, categories, and features can have a wide ranging impact, various approvals and notifications (mentions) are required.

Roles and responsibilities

The MR author is responsible for ensuring that the description includes a clear low-context explanation of the changes, and links to other relevant issues, docs, or resources, if applicable. Explicit approval from the relevant team members are encouraged, but not required if they have approved in a related work item. However, the author must list and link directly to any required approvals outside of the MR. When requesting approvals, the author should clearly state whether the approvers should also merge based on what’s required.

The approvers for sections, stages, and groups should ensure that all relevant changes are made, and reflect the decisions of the section, stage, or group.

The approvers for categories and features should consist of a team within Product that has a general understanding of the product as a whole, the different sections, and how they’re relevant to customers. The Pricing & Packaging team has taken on this responsibility as the “Required Approver”. They are expected to flag any concerns, and ensure that any “very significant” changes have been discussed and approved by the relevant PLT member(s). For any additional requirements, the required approvers should review the description that tasks have been completed and/or a relevant issue is linked.

Due to technical limitations, Strategy & Operations team members have been added as additional codeowners where approvals are not required.

Approvals

In addition to approvals, please see the list of notifications.

Category and Feature changes

The PLT member of the appropriate department/section should approve, and one of the required categories and features approvers (see above section) should either approve or be made aware depending on the situation.

flowchart TD
    Start([Author creates MR with detailed description]) --> Decision{Type of Change?}

    Decision -->|Very Significant| VSType{Remove category?}
    Decision -->|Significant| SType{Add category?}
    Decision -->|Less Significant| LSApproval[No Approvals Required]

    VSType -->|Yes| CodeReview[Code Review Required]
    VSType -->|No| VSApproval[Required Approvals:<br/>✓ PLT<br/>✓ Approver]
    CodeReview --> VSApproval

    SType -->|Yes| CanvasReview[Opportunity Canvas Review Required]
    SType -->|No| SApproval[Required Approvals:<br/>✓ PLT]
    CanvasReview --> SApproval

    VSApproval --> VSMention[Mention:<br/>• PMM]
    VSMention --> End([MR Ready for Merge])

    SApproval --> SMention[Mention:<br/>• PMM<br/>• Approver]
    SMention --> End

    LSApproval --> LSMention[Mentions Encouraged]
    LSMention --> End

Very significant

Requires PLT + Required Approver approval, mention PMM for awareness.

Examples:

1. Remove category or feature, where a code review must also be completed. See guidance on data changes and code changes.
2. Tier-up (move from lower to higher tier)
3. Tier-down (move from higher to lower tier)

Significant

Requires PLT approval, mention PMM and Required Approver for awareness.

Examples:

1. Add category (which should also go through an opportunity canvas review)
2. Move feature to another category

In these cases, you may ask a Strategy & Operations team member for approval.

Less significant

Does not require approvals, mentions are encouraged.

Examples:

1. Update description or link
2. Update feature labels

In these cases, you may ask a Strategy & Operations team member for approval.

Section, Stage, and Group changes

flowchart TD
    Type{Change Type?}

    Type -->|Membership| Member[team assignments]
    Member --> MemberApproval[Relevant Manager]

    Type -->|Informational| Info[description, links]
    Info --> InfoApproval[Product Lead OR<br/>Engineering Lead]

    Type -->|Other| Level{Which Level?}

    Level -->|Group| GroupApproval[Product Manager<br/>+ Stage Product lead]

    Level -->|Stage| StageApproval[Stage Product lead<br/>+ Section Product lead]

    Level -->|Section| SectionApproval[Section Product lead<br/>+ Section Engineering lead<br/>+ PLT member]

Membership changes (who is part of the section, stage, or group) should be approved by the relevant manager(s) that the affected team member(s) report to.

Informational changes (such as description, updating links) require approval from either the relevant Product or Engineering lead.

Other changes to sections, stages, and groups should be approved by the relevant Product lead and the level above:

1. Group: Product Manager; plus Stage-level Product lead
2. Stage: Stage-level Product lead; plus Section-level Product lead
3. Section: Section-level Product lead, and Engineering lead; plus relevant Product Leadership Team (PLT) member

For Engineering-led sections, stages, or groups, the same applies but with Engineering leads instead.

Notifications of changes

The list of notifications is duplicated in the Group-Stage-Category-Change MR template.

Mention the following people on the MR for their awareness:

1. Relevant Product lead(s) for affected Section(s), if not already an approver
2. Relevant Product Leadership Team (PLT) member(s) for affected Section(s), if not already an approver
3. Relevant Engineering lead(s), plus the Engineering lead(s) “above”
   • For example, a Group-level change, mention the Engineering lead for the Group, and the Stage the Group is in.
4. Engineering lead(s) for the affected Section(s)
5. The relevant Product Marketing Manager(s)
6. Technical Writing counterpart(s)
7. Lead (Director) of Technical Writing
8. UX Research lead
9. Lead (Director) of Product Design
10. Chief Design Officer
11. Chief Product and Marketing Officer
12. Lead (VP) of (Infrastructure) Platforms Engineering
13. Chief Technology Officer

You are encouraged to mention all relevant Product and Engineering leaders that are affected. For example, for Section changes, mention all Stage and Group level leaders. Alternatively, you may choose to make these people aware through other communication channels.

Team tags

Every section, stage, and group can have one or more team_tags in order to display:

1. the ICs who are members of each group, and
2. certain counterparts.

The names of the *_team_tag lives in data/sections.yml, and data/stages.yml (for stages and groups). Each team member’s individual data/team_members/person/ YAML should have the relevant team_tags entries.

When deciding on the naming, ensure that each team tag is unique. For example, sre_team_tag should have a different value compared to be_team_tag. If they are the same, then all team members with the tag with be displayed, duplicating the list.

Examples are shown in the team members data README.

Changing category maturity

We primarily use the Category Maturity Scorecard process to determine category maturity.

Typically, category maturity moves up from planned to minimal to viable to complete to lovable. However, maturity can also be downgraded. For example, in cases where we discover a JTBD is not met (see example), or when we change the definition of maturity, we may choose to move category maturity down.

When downgrading product maturity, we adjust our customer’s current expectations about our product. This is particularly impactful to our go-to-market team members in customer success and product marketing. We need to do the following to enable alignment between all affected and interested parties:

• Raise an MR for the downgrade and clearly state the reasons for change in the description (see example)
• Inform the relevant PLT member by adding them as Reviewer on the MR
• Notify the product group counterparts in the MR: Product Marketing, Product Designer, Engineering Manager, and Technical Writer
• Post the MR in the #customer-success Slack channel prior to merging, to allow the team to assess impact and adjust
• Post the MR in the #product Slack channel for awareness

DevOps Stages

AI section

Slack Channel	#s_ai-powered
Engineering Leadership	Tim Zallmann
Product Design	Valerie Karnes
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Technical Writing	Sarah Watt
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Tiffany Chen

graph TD;

  
    ai[AI section]-->s_ai-powered[AI-powered stage];

    
        s_ai-powered-->g_agent_foundations["Agent Foundations
        group"];
        click g_agent_foundations "/handbook/product/categories/#agent_foundations";
    
        s_ai-powered-->g_ai_framework["AI Framework
        group"];
        click g_ai_framework "/handbook/product/categories/#ai-framework-group";
    
        s_ai-powered-->g_code_creation["Code Creation
        group"];
        click g_code_creation "/handbook/product/categories/#code-suggestions";
    
        s_ai-powered-->g_custom_models["Custom Models
        group"];
        click g_custom_models "/handbook/product/categories/#custom-models-group";
    
        s_ai-powered-->g_duo_chat["Duo Chat
        group"];
        click g_duo_chat "/handbook/product/categories/#duo-chat-group";
    
        s_ai-powered-->g_editor_extensions["Editor Extensions
        group"];
        click g_editor_extensions "/handbook/product/categories/#editor-extensions";
    
        s_ai-powered-->g_global_search["Global Search
        group"];
        click g_global_search "/handbook/product/categories/#global-search-group";
    
        s_ai-powered-->g_workflow_catalog["Workflow Catalog
        group"];
        click g_workflow_catalog "/handbook/<no value>";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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AI-powered stage

Slack Channel	#s_ai-powered
Handbook Page	AI Engineering
Product	Sarah Waldner
Engineering Leadership	Tim Zallmann
Product Design	Jacki Bauer

Agent Foundations group

Slack Channel	#g_agent_foundations
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	Sebastian Rehm
Engineering (10)	Frédéric Caplette   Lindsey Shelton   Alper Akgun   Andras Herczeg   Sebastian Rehm   Fred de Gier   Senior Machine Learning Engineer   Mikołaj Wawrzyniak   Roman Eisner   Tim Morriss
UX Research	Erika Feldman   Nick Hertz
Product Designer	Michael Moyers   Sam Reiss   Emily Bauman
Support	Łukasz Korbasiewicz
Technical Writing	Suzanne Selhorn
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Paulo Martins

Name	Maturity	Links
Duo Agent Platform	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

AI Framework group

Slack Channel	#g_ai_framework
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Ben Venker
Engineering Leadership	Martin Wortschack
Engineering (12)	Andrew Fontaine   Alexander Chueshev   Alejandro Rodríguez   Halil Coban   Hongtao Yang   Senior Backend Engineer   Joey Khabie   Kalyani Gadgil (KG)   Mark Lapierre   Nathan Weinshenker   Surabhi Suman   Tan Le
UX Research	Nick Hertz   Erika Feldman
Product Designer	Jacki Bauer
Support	Łukasz Korbasiewicz
Technical Writing	Ashraf Khamis
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Paulo Martins

Name	Maturity	Links
AI Abstraction Layer	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
AI Evaluation	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
AI Research	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
MCP Server	Planned 2025	Direction Page

Code Creation group

Slack Channel	#g_code_creation
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Jordan Janes
Engineering Leadership	Matt Nohr
Engineering (8)	Allen Cook   James Fargher   Kinshuk Singh   Omar Qunsul   Pam Artiaga   Shola Quadri   Tian Gao   Vitali Tatarintev
Support	Edward Hilgendorf IV
Technical Writing	Uma Chandran

Name	Maturity	Links
Code Suggestions	Viable	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page

Custom Models group

Slack Channel	#g_custom_models
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Jordan Janes
Engineering Leadership	Annie Ying
Engineering (7)	Julie Huang   Bruno Cardoso   Cindy Halim   Igor Drozdov   Patrick Cyiza   Manoj Memana Jayakumar   Mohamed Hamda
Support	Vidhya Hariharan
Technical Writing	Fiona Neill
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Paulo Martins

Name	Maturity	Links
Model Personalization	Minimal	Direction Page
Self-Hosted Models	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
GitLab Duo Settings	Minimal	Direction Page

Duo Chat group

Slack Channel	#g_duo_chat
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sarah Waldner
Engineering Leadership	Juan Silva
Engineering (6)	Jannik Lehmann   Dillon Wheeler   Eva Kadlecová   Mark Chao   Shinya Maeda   Tetiana Chupryna
UX Research	Erika Feldman   Nick Hertz
Product Designer	Michael Moyers   Sam Reiss   Emily Bauman
Support	Łukasz Korbasiewicz   Duncan Harris
Technical Writing	Jon Glassman
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Paulo Martins

Name	Maturity	Links
Duo Chat	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Editor Extensions group

Slack Channel	#g_editor-extensions
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Meg Corren   Dasha Adushkina
Engineering Leadership	Amr Elhusseiny   Donald Cook
Engineering (12)	Andrei Zubov   Elwyn Benson   Enrique Alcántara   Olena HK.   Tomas Vik   Tristan Read   Anna Springfield   Dylan Bernardi   Erran Carey   John Slaughter   Karl Jamoralin   Laura Ionel
UX Research	Ben Leduc-Mills
Product Designer	Sam Reiss
Support	Łukasz Korbasiewicz
Technical Writing	Uma Chandran

Name	Maturity	Links
Editor Extensions	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
Web IDE	Competitive	Documentation Page Direction Page

Global Search group

Slack Channel	#g_global_search
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/search-team
Handbook Page
Focus	Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Ben Venker
Engineering Leadership	Changzheng Liu
Engineering (9)	Tomáš Bulva   Arturo Herrero   Changzheng Liu   Dmitry Gruzd   John Mason   Madelein van Niekerk   Ravi Kumar   Siddharth Dungarwal   Terri Chu
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Aysegul Acar   Brenda Nyaringita   Cleveland Bledsoe Jr
Technical Writing	Ashraf Khamis
Internal Customers	Engineering Department Customer Success Infrastructure Department Product Security Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Global Search	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Code Search	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Workflow Catalog group

Slack Channel	#g_workflow_catalog
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/ai-powered/workflow-catalog
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	Sam Beckham
Engineering (7)	Angus Ryer   Florie Guibert   Justin Ho   Vanessa Otto   Jaydip pansuriya   Keeyan Nejad   Luke Duncalfe
Product Designer	Taylor Vanderhelm   Andrew Bacon
Technical Writing	Phillip Wells

Name	Maturity	Links
AI Catalog	Planned 2025

Analytics section

Slack Channel	#analytics-section
Product	Anand Ahire
Engineering Leadership	Nitin Singhal
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Technical Writing	Diana Logan
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Eugene McCrann

graph TD;

  

  
    analytics[Analytics section]-->s_analytics[Analytics stage];

    
        s_analytics-->g_analytics_instrumentation["Analytics Instrumentation
        group"];
        click g_analytics_instrumentation "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_analytics-->g_optimize["Optimize
        group"];
        click g_optimize "/handbook/product/categories/#optimize-group";
    
        s_analytics-->g_platform_insights["Platform Insights
        group"];
        click g_platform_insights "/handbook/<no value>";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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Analytics stage

Slack Channel	#analytics-section
Handbook Page	Development
Product	Lindsy Farina
Engineering Leadership	Dennis Tang
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Quality	Ievgen Chernikov

Analytics Instrumentation group

Slack Channel	#g_analyze_analytics_instrumentation
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Tanuja Jayarama Raju
Engineering Leadership	Ashwin Bilgi
Engineering (5)	Ankit Panchal   Jonas Larsen   Michał Wielich   Niko Belokolodov   Nwanna Isong
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Technical Writing	#docs
Internal Customers	Sales Department Marketing Department Product Department Customer Success Data Team

Name	Maturity	Links
Service Ping	Viable	Documentation Page
Application Instrumentation	Minimal	Direction Page

Optimize group

Slack Channel	#g_analytics_optimize
Focus	Analytics Optimize GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	Brandon Labuschagne
Engineering (6)	Alex Pennells   Ezekiel Kigbo   Rudy Crespo   Amr Taha   Felipe Artur   Pavel Shutsin
UX Research	Danika Teverovsky
Product Designer	Libor Vanc
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Support	Gabriel Yoachum
Technical Writing	Lorena Ciutacu
Application Security Engineer	Costel Maxim
Internal Customers	Engineering Department Product Department Quality Department Development Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Value Stream Management	Viable	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page
DORA Metrics	Viable	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page
DevOps Reports	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Platform Insights group

Slack Channel	#g_analytics_platform_insights
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Lindsy Farina
Engineering Leadership	Nicholas Klick
Engineering (6)	Daniele Rossetti   Jiaan Louw   Robert Hunt   Ankit Bhatnagar   Arun Sori   Nnamdi Ogundu
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Technical Writing	#docs
Internal Customers	Sales Department Marketing Department Product Department Customer Success Data Team Infrastructure Department Dave Smith Engineering Department Sam Goldstein Security Operations Department Sean Gillespie

Name	Maturity	Links
Custom Dashboards Foundation	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
Observability	Planned 2024	Direction Page
Product Analytics	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
Incident Management	Communityled	Documentation Page Direction Page
On-call Schedule Management	Communityled	Documentation Page Direction Page

CD section

Slack Channel	#cd-section
Product	Anand Ahire
Engineering Leadership	Cheryl Li
Product Design	Marcel van Remmerden
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Technical Writing	Michael Belton
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Tiffany Chen

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  
    cd[CD section]-->s_deploy[Deploy stage];

    
        s_deploy-->g_environments["Environments
        group"];
        click g_environments "/handbook/product/categories/#environments-group";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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Deploy stage

Slack Channel	#s_deploy
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/ci-cd/deploy-stage/environments-group
Handbook Page
Product	Darren Eastman
Engineering Leadership	Adebayo Adesanya
Product Design	Rayana Verissimo

Environments group

Slack Channel	#g_environments
Slack Alias	Environments Group
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	Adebayo Adesanya
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Lewis Brown
Technical Writing	#docs
Application Security Engineer	Ameya Darshan
Internal Customers	Quality Department Delivery Team Reliability Engineering Devin Sylva Distribution Team AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group

Name	Maturity	Links
Continuous Delivery	Competitive	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page
Feature Flags	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Release Orchestration	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

CI section

Slack Channel	#ci-section
Product	Anand Ahire
Engineering Leadership	Michelle Gill
Product Design	Rayana Verissimo
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Technical Writing	Michael Belton
Infrastructure	Gerardo "Gerir" Lopez-Fernandez
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Tiffany Chen

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    ci[CI section]-->s_package[Package stage];

    
        s_package-->g_container_registry["Container Registry
        group"];
        click g_container_registry "/handbook/product/categories/#package-group";
    
        s_package-->g_package_registry["Package Registry
        group"];
        click g_package_registry "/handbook/product/categories/#package-group";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    ci[CI section]-->s_verify[Verify stage];

    
        s_verify-->g_ci_functions_platform["CI Functions Platform
        group"];
        click g_ci_functions_platform "/handbook/product/categories/#runner-group";
    
        s_verify-->g_ci_platform["CI Platform
        group"];
        click g_ci_platform "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_verify-->g_mobile_devops["Mobile DevOps
        group"];
        click g_mobile_devops "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_verify-->g_pipeline_authoring["Pipeline Authoring
        group"];
        click g_pipeline_authoring "/handbook/product/categories/#pipeline-authoring-group";
    
        s_verify-->g_pipeline_execution["Pipeline Execution
        group"];
        click g_pipeline_execution "/handbook/product/product-categories/#pipeline-execution-group";
    
        s_verify-->g_runner_core["Runner Core
        group"];
        click g_runner_core "/handbook/product/categories/#runner-group";
    
  

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Package stage

Slack Channel	#s_package
Handbook Page
Product	Tim Rizzi
Engineering Leadership	Crystal Poole
Product Design	Gina Doyle
Product Designer	Bonnie Tsang

Container Registry group

Slack Channel	#g_container-registry
Slack Alias	container-registry-group
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/ci-cd/package-stage/container-registry-group
Handbook Page
Focus	Container Registry GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Tim Rizzi
Engineering Leadership	Jaime Martínez
Engineering (5)	Rahul Chanila   Senior Backend Engineer   Hayley Swimelar   Jaime Martínez   João Pereira
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Support	Kate Grechishkina
Technical Writing	Zach Painter
Internal Customers	Distribution Team Infrastructure Department Product Security Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Container Registry	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Virtual Registry	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Dependency Firewall	Planned 2025	Direction Page

Package Registry group

Slack Channel	#g_package-registry
Slack Alias	package-registry-group
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/ci-cd/package-stage/package-registry-group
Handbook Page
Focus	Package Registry GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Tim Rizzi
Engineering Leadership	Crystal Poole
Engineering (7)	Rahul Chanila   Chad Woolley   David Fernandez   Dzmitry Meshcharakou   Moaz Khalifa   Rad Batnag   Sylvia Shen
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Support	Kate Grechishkina
Technical Writing	Zach Painter
Internal Customers	Distribution Team Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Package Registry	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Helm Chart Registry	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Verify stage

Slack Channel	#s_verify
Product	Darren Eastman
Engineering Leadership	Cheryl Li
Product Design	Rayana Verissimo
Quality	Tiffany Rea

CI Functions Platform group

Slack Channel	#g_runner
Focus	Verify & Runner SMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Dov Hershkovitch
Engineering Leadership	Nicole Williams
Engineering (4)	Axel von Bertoldi   Cam Swords   Georgi Georgiev   Romuald Atchadé
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Support	Michael Trainor   Justin Farmiloe
Technical Writing	Roshni Sarangadharan
Application Security Engineer	Costel Maxim
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Paulo Martins
Internal Customers	Infrastructure Department Engineering Department

CI Platform group

Slack Channel	#g_ci-platform
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Rutvik Shah
Engineering Leadership	Golnaz Sepehrband
Engineering (7)	Miguel Rincon   Leaminn Ma   Marius Bobin   Madhusudan Vaishnao   Narendran Kannan   Pedro Pombeiro   Tianwen Chen
Product Designer	Diego Adams
Support	Mark Nagle
Technical Writing	Roshni Sarangadharan

Name	Maturity	Links
Fleet Visibility	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Mobile DevOps group

Slack Channel	#mobile-devops
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Darren Eastman
Technical Writing	#docs

Name	Maturity	Links
Mobile DevOps		Direction Page

Pipeline Authoring group

Slack Channel	#g_pipeline-authoring
Focus	Verify & Runner SMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Dov Hershkovitch
Engineering Leadership	Manuel Grabowski
Engineering (7)	Anna Vovchenko   Sahil Sharma   Avielle Wolfe   Furkan Ayhan   Kasia Misirli   Laura Montemayor   Rajendra Kadam
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Product Designer	Sunjung Park
Support	Luminus Alabi   Segolene Bouly
Technical Writing	Marcel Amirault
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni
Customer Success	Rachel Fuerst   Vladimir Dzalbo
Internal Customers	Quality Department UX Department Infrastructure Department Engineering Department AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group Security Division

Name	Maturity	Links
Pipeline Composition	Viable	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page
Component Catalog	Minimal	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page

Pipeline Execution group

Slack Channel	#g_pipeline-execution
Focus	Verify & Runner SMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Rutvik Shah
Engineering Leadership	Drew Stachon
Engineering (7)	Jose Ivan Vargas   Payton Burdette   Daniel Prause   Hordur Freyr Yngvason   Max Fan   Panos Kanellidis   Tiger Watson
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Product Designer	Veethika M
Support	Paul Murray   Charl Marais
Technical Writing	Lysanne Pinto
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni
Customer Success	Rachel Fuerst   Vladimir Dzalbo
Internal Customers	Quality Department UX Department Infrastructure Department Engineering Department AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group Security Division

Name	Maturity	Links
Continuous Integration (CI)	Competitive	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page
Merge Trains	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Code Testing and Coverage	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Review Apps	Competitive	Documentation Page Direction Page
Job Artifacts	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Runner Core group

Slack Channel	#g_runner_core
Focus	Verify & Runner SMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Gabriel Engel
Engineering Leadership	Adebayo Adesanya
Engineering (6)	Arran Walker   Ashvin Sharma   Staff Backend Engineer   Taka Nishida   Timo Furrer   Vishal Tak
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Support	Michael Trainor   Justin Farmiloe
Technical Writing	Roshni Sarangadharan
Application Security Engineer	Costel Maxim
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Paulo Martins
Customer Success	Rachel Fuerst   Vladimir Dzalbo
Internal Customers	Infrastructure Department Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Auto DevOps	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Environment Management	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Deployment Management	Viable	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page
Infrastructure as Code	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
GitLab Runner Core	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Data Science section

Slack Channel	#data-science
Engineering Leadership	Tim Zallmann
Product Design	Valerie Karnes
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Tiffany Chen

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    data-science[Data Science section]-->s_modelops[ModelOps stage];

    
        s_modelops-->g_dataops["DataOps
        group"];
        click g_dataops "/handbook/product/categories/#dataops-group";
    
        s_modelops-->g_mlops["MLOps
        group"];
        click g_mlops "/handbook/product/categories/#mlops-group";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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ModelOps stage

Slack Channel	#s_modelops
Handbook Page
Product	Taylor McCaslin

DataOps group

Slack Channel	#s_modelops
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Taylor McCaslin
Technical Writing	#docs

Name	Maturity	Links
DataOps	Planned 2025	Direction Page

MLOps group

Slack Channel	#g_mlops
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Taylor McCaslin
Technical Writing	#docs

Name	Maturity	Links
MLOps	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
AI Agents	Planned 2024	Documentation Page Direction Page

Data Access section

Slack Channel	#s_data_access
Engineering Leadership	Alex Ives

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  
    data_access[Data Access section]-->s_data_access[Data Access stage];

    
        s_data_access-->g_database_frameworks["Database Frameworks
        group"];
        click g_database_frameworks "/handbook/product/categories/#database-group";
    
        s_data_access-->g_database_operations["Database Operations
        group"];
        click g_database_operations "/handbook/product/categories/#database-group";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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Data Access stage

Slack Channel	#TBD
GitLab Group	@TBD
Handbook Page

Database Frameworks group

Slack Channel	#g_database_frameworks
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/database-team
Handbook Page
Focus	Database PPI
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	Prabakaran Murugesan
Engineering (10)	Alex Ives   Allison Browne   Backend Engineer   Jon Jenkins   Krasimir Angelov   Leonardo da Rosa   Matt Kasa   Maxime Orefice   Prabakaran Murugesan   Simon Tomlinson
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Ryan Castro   Chris Nightingale   Mark Nagle
Technical Writing	#docs
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Database		Direction Page

Database Operations group

Slack Channel	#g_database_operations
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/database-team
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering (4)	Alexander Sosna   Biren Shah   Rafael Henchen   Vamshidhar Poralla
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Technical Writing	#docs
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Database		Direction Page

Dev section

Slack Channel	#core_devops
Product	Anand Ahire
Engineering Leadership	Michelle Gill
Product Design	Marcel van Remmerden
UX Research	Ben Leduc-Mills   Danika Teverovsky
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Technical Writing	Michael Belton
Infrastructure	Gerardo "Gerir" Lopez-Fernandez
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Iris Gorman

graph TD;

  

  

  

  
    dev[Dev section]-->s_create[Create stage];

    
        s_create-->g_code_review["Code Review
        group"];
        click g_code_review "/handbook/product/categories/#code-review-group";
    
        s_create-->g_import["Import
        group"];
        click g_import "/handbook/product/categories/#import-group";
    
        s_create-->g_remote_development["Remote Development
        group"];
        click g_remote_development "/handbook/product/categories/#remote-development-group";
    
        s_create-->g_source_code["Source Code
        group"];
        click g_source_code "/handbook/product/categories/#source-code-group";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    dev[Dev section]-->s_plan[Plan stage];

    
        s_plan-->g_knowledge["Knowledge
        group"];
        click g_knowledge "/handbook/product/product-categories/#knowledge-group";
    
        s_plan-->g_product_planning["Product Planning
        group"];
        click g_product_planning "/handbook/product/categories/#product_planning";
    
        s_plan-->g_project_management["Project Management
        group"];
        click g_project_management "/handbook/product/categories/#project-management-group";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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Create stage

Slack Channel	#s_create
Product	Derek Ferguson
Engineering Leadership	Darva Satcher
Product Design	Gina Doyle

Code Review group

Slack Channel	#g_create_code-review
Handbook Page
Focus	Create Code Review GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Kai Armstrong
Engineering Leadership	André Luís   François Rosé
Engineering (11)	André Luís   Phil Hughes   Stanislav Lashmanov   Thomas Randolph   Sincheol (David) Kim   Eugenia Grieff   Gary Holtz   Marc Shaw   Patrick Bajao   Safwan Ahmed   Backend Engineer
UX Research	Ben Leduc-Mills
Product Designer	Michael Le
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Support	Ben King
Technical Writing	Brendan Lynch
Internal Customers	Engineering Department Marketing Department Product Department Product Security Department Ameya Darshan

Name	Maturity	Links
Code Review Workflow	Complete	Documentation Page Direction Page
GitLab CLI	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Import group

Slack Channel	#g_import
GitLab Group	@gitlab-com/create-team/import
Focus	Importers
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	Thiago Figueiró
Engineering (7)	Oiza Baiye   Carla Drago   George Koltsov   James Nutt   Reza Marandi   Rodrigo Tomonari   Sam Word
Support	Mike Lockhart
Technical Writing	Evan Read
Application Security Engineer	Ameya Darshan
Internal Customers	Alliances Department Customer Success Quality Department Infrastructure Department Engineering Department Professional Services Michael Leopard

Name	Maturity	Links
Importers		Documentation Page Direction Page

Remote Development group

Slack Channel	#g_create_remote_development
Handbook Page
Focus	Create Remote Development GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Michelle Chen
Engineering Leadership	Adebayo Adesanya
UX Research	Ben Leduc-Mills
Product Designer	Mark Unthank
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Support	Chris Stone   Bradley "Brad" Sevy
Technical Writing	#docs
Internal Customers	Marketing Department Engineering Department Finance Department People Operations Product Department Product Security Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Workspaces	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Source Code group

Slack Channel	#g_create_source-code
Handbook Page
Focus	Create Source Code GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Kai Armstrong
Engineering Leadership	André Luís   Andre Richards
Engineering (15)	André Luís   Jacques Erasmus   Joseph Fletcher   Chaoyue Zhao   Paulina Sedlak-Jakubowska   Emma Park   Fred Reinink   Gavin Hinfey   Hunter Stewart   Jerry Seto   Javiera Tapia   Joe Woodward   Kerri Miller   Olaoluwa Oluro   Vasilii Iakliushin
UX Research	Ben Leduc-Mills
Product Designer	Alyssa Trinh
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Technical Writing	Brendan Lynch
Application Security Engineer	Costel Maxim
Customer Success	Conley Rogers   Simon Mansfield
Internal Customers	Engineering Department Marketing Department Aathira Nair Product Department Security Division

Name	Maturity	Links
Source Code Management	Complete	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page

Plan stage

Slack Channel	#s_plan
Product	Izzy Chu
Engineering Leadership	John Hope

Knowledge group

Slack Channel	#g_knowledge
Handbook Page
Focus	Plan Knowledge Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Matthew Macfarlane
Engineering Leadership	Armin Pašalić
Engineering (4)	Janis Altherr   Asherah Connor   Naman Jagdish Gala   Piotr Skorupa
UX Research	Danika Teverovsky
Product Designer	Alex Fracazo
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Support	Rocky Mongare
Technical Writing	Brendan Lynch
Application Security Engineer	Costel Maxim
Customer Success	Simon Mansfield
Internal Customers	Technical Writing Diana Logan

Name	Maturity	Links
Wiki	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Pages	Competitive	Documentation Page Direction Page
Text Editors	Competitive	Documentation Page Direction Page
Markdown	Complete	Documentation Page Direction Page

Product Planning group

Slack Channel	#g_product-planning
Focus	Plan Product Planning Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Gabe Weaver   Matthew Macfarlane
Engineering Leadership	Vladimir Shushlin
Engineering (11)	Anastasia Khomchenko   Jack Chapman   Rajan Mistry   Vedant Jain   Vladimir Shushlin   Daniyal Arshad   Kassio Borges   Małgorzata Ksionek   Matt D'Angelo   Nicolas Dular   Backend Engineer
UX Research	Danika Teverovsky
Product Designer	Nick Brandt
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Technical Writing	Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski
Internal Customers	Engineering Department Product Department Security Division

Name	Maturity	Links
Portfolio Management	Viable	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page
OKR Management	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
Design Management	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Requirements Management	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
Quality Management	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Project Management group

Slack Channel	#g_project-management
Handbook Page	Plan:Project Management
Focus	Plan Project Management Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Gabe Weaver
Engineering Leadership	Alexandru Croitor
Engineering (8)	Senior Frontend Engineer   Deepika Guliani   Marc Saleiko   Natalia Tepluhina   Agnes Slota   Heinrich Lee Yu   Mario Celi   Stefanos Xanthopoulos
UX Research	Danika Teverovsky
Product Designer	Nick Leonard
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Technical Writing	Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski
Application Security Engineer	Costel Maxim
Internal Customers	Engineering Department Product Department Security Division

Name	Maturity	Links
Team Planning	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Service Desk	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Notifications		Documentation Page

Developer Experience section

Slack Channel	#s_developer_experience
Engineering Leadership	Amy Phillips
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Iris Gorman

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    developer_experience[Developer Experience section]-->s_developer_experience[Developer Experience stage];

    
        s_developer_experience-->g_api["API
        group"];
        click g_api "/handbook/product/categories/#api-group";
    
        s_developer_experience-->g_development_analytics["Development Analytics
        group"];
        click g_development_analytics "/handbook/product/categories/#development-analytics-group";
    
        s_developer_experience-->g_development_tooling["Development Tooling
        group"];
        click g_development_tooling "/handbook/product/categories/#development-tooling-group";
    
        s_developer_experience-->g_performance_enablement["Performance Enablement
        group"];
        click g_performance_enablement "/handbook/product/categories/#performance-enablement-group";
    
        s_developer_experience-->g_test_governance["Test Governance
        group"];
        click g_test_governance "/handbook/product/categories/#test-governance-group";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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Developer Experience stage

Slack Channel	#s_developer_experience
GitLab Group	@gitlab-com/gl-infra/platform
Handbook Page	Developer Experience
Engineering Leadership	Amy Phillips

API group

Slack Channel	#g_developer-experience-api-platform
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	Amy Phillips
Engineering (4)	Alberto Bignotti   Chance Feick   Max Woolf   Vlad Wolanyk
Technical Writing	Isaac Durham

Development Analytics group

Slack Channel	#g_development_analytics
Handbook Page	Development Analytics Group
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	Paul John Phillips
Engineering (4)	Andrejs Cunskis   Ievgen Chernikov   Richard Chong   Lohit Peesapati
Technical Writing	#docs

Development Tooling group

Slack Channel	#g_development_tooling
Handbook Page	Development Tooling team
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	Mohga Gamea
Engineering (6)	Kev Kloss   Backend Engineer   Manuel Schönlaub   Matias Alvarez   Nao Hashizume   Peter Leitzen
Technical Writing	#docs

Performance Enablement group

Slack Channel	#g_performance_enablement
Handbook Page	Performance Enablement
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering (6)	Andy Hohenner   Brittany Wilkerson   John McDonnell   Nivetha Prabakaran   Sofia Vistas   Vishal Patel
Technical Writing	#docs

Name	Maturity	Links
Performance Tooling		Direction Page

Test Governance group

Slack Channel	#g_test_governance
Handbook Page	Test Governance Group
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	Nadya Denisenko
Engineering (8)	Chloe Liu   Désirée Chevalier   Harsha Muralidhar   Jay McCure   Joy Roodnick   Tiffany Rea   Tim Beauchamp   Will Meek
Technical Writing	#docs

Foundations section

Slack Channel	#s_foundations
Product Design	Taurie Davis
UX Research	Thaina Tavares
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Iris Gorman

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    foundations[Foundations section]-->s_foundations[Foundations stage];

    
        s_foundations-->g_accessibility["Accessibility
        group"];
        click g_accessibility "/handbook/product/categories/#accessibility";
    
        s_foundations-->g_design_system["Design System
        group"];
        click g_design_system "/handbook/product/categories/#design_system-group";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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Foundations stage

Slack Channel	#s_foundations
Product Design	Taurie Davis

Accessibility group

Slack Channel	#accessibility
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/foundations/accessibility
Focus	Lead accessibility initiatives, improve our accessibility workflows, and train and mentor other GitLab team members in digital accessibility.
Features in this Group	Features
Product Design	Manager, Product Design
Technical Writing	#docs

Design System group

Slack Channel	#g_pajamas-design-system
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/foundations/design-system
Focus	Driving Pajamas adoption
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	Manager, Product Design
Engineering (3)	Mark Florian   Scott de Jonge   Thomas Hutterer
Product Design	Manager, Product Design   Chris Micek
Product Designer	Chad Lavimoniere   Julia Miocene   Sascha Eggenberger   Annabel Dunstone Gray   Dan Mizzi-Harris   Jeremy Elder
Technical Writing	#docs
Internal Customers	Alliances Department Customer Success Quality Department Infrastructure Department Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Pajamas Design System		Documentation Page Direction Page

Fulfillment section

Slack Channel	#TBD
Product	Courtney Meddaugh
Engineering Leadership	Jerome Ng
Product Design	Taurie Davis
UX Research	Anne Lasch   Nick Hertz
Support	John Lyttle
Technical Writing	Diana Logan
Infrastructure	Dave Smith
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Iris Gorman

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    fulfillment[Fulfillment section]-->s_fulfillment[Fulfillment stage];

    
        s_fulfillment-->g_fulfillment_platform["Fulfillment Platform
        group"];
        click g_fulfillment_platform "/handbook/product/categories/#fulfillment-platform-group";
    
        s_fulfillment-->g_provision["Provision
        group"];
        click g_provision "/handbook/product/categories/#provision-group";
    
        s_fulfillment-->g_seat_management["Seat Management
        group"];
        click g_seat_management "/handbook/product/categories/#seat-management-group";
    
        s_fulfillment-->g_subscription_management["Subscription Management
        group"];
        click g_subscription_management "/handbook/product/categories/#subscription-management-group";
    
        s_fulfillment-->g_utilization["Utilization
        group"];
        click g_utilization "/handbook/product/categories/#utilization-group";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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Fulfillment stage

Slack Channel	#s_fulfillment
Product	Courtney Meddaugh
Engineering Leadership	Jerome Ng
Product Design	Emily Sybrant
UX Research	Anne Lasch   Nick Hertz

Fulfillment Platform group

Slack Channel	#g_fulfillment_platform
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	James Lopez
Engineering (6)	Tarun Vellishetty   Aishwarya Subramanian   Etienne Baqué   Shreyas Agarwal   Tyler Amos   Vladlena Shumilo
Product Designer	Erhan D'Silva   Lina Fowler   Timothy Noah
Support	Tom McAtee
Technical Writing	#docs

Name	Maturity	Links
Fulfillment Infradev	Viable	Direction Page
CustomersDot and quote to cash integrations	Viable	Direction Page

Provision group

Slack Channel	#g_provision
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Priyanka Palanikumar
Engineering (6)	Bishwa Hang Rai   Corinna Gogolok   Nikola Milojevic   Paulo Barros   Qingyu Zhao   Roy Zwambag
Product Designer	Erhan D'Silva   Lina Fowler   Timothy Noah
Support	Keven Hughes
Technical Writing	Lorena Ciutacu
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni

Name	Maturity	Links
Plan Provisioning	Viable	Direction Page
Add-on Provisioning	Viable	Direction Page

Seat Management group

Slack Channel	#g_seat_management
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Magdalena Frankiewicz
UX Research	Anne Lasch
Product Designer	Erhan D'Silva   Lina Fowler   Timothy Noah
Support	Chantal Lawrence   Alvin Gounder
Technical Writing	Lorena Ciutacu

Name	Maturity	Links
Seat Cost Management	Viable	Direction Page
User Management	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Subscription Management group

Slack Channel	#g_subscription_management
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Tatyana Golubeva
Engineering Leadership	Diana Zubova
Engineering (6)	Michael Lunøe   Sharmad Nachnolkar   Vamsi Vempati   Aman Luthra   Josianne Hyson   Ryan Cobb
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Product Designer	Erhan D'Silva   Lina Fowler   Timothy Noah
Support	Firdaws Farukh
Technical Writing	Lorena Ciutacu

Name	Maturity	Links
Subscription Management	Viable	Direction Page

Utilization group

Slack Channel	#g_utilization
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Bryan Rothwell
Engineering Leadership	Sharmad Nachnolkar
Engineering (7)	Ammar Alakkad   Angelo Gulina   Kos Palchyk   Sheldon Led   Jason Goodman   Suraj Tripathi   Vijay Hawoldar
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Product Designer	Erhan D'Silva   Lina Fowler   Timothy Noah
Support	Shem Gyll
Technical Writing	Lorena Ciutacu

Name	Maturity	Links
Consumables Cost Management	Viable	Direction Page

GitLab Dedicated section

Slack Channel	#f_gitlab_dedicated
Engineering Leadership	Florbela Viegas
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Iris Gorman

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    gitlab_dedicated[GitLab Dedicated section]-->s_gitlab_dedicated[GitLab Dedicated stage];

    
        s_gitlab_dedicated-->g_environment_automation["Environment Automation
        group"];
        click g_environment_automation "/handbook/product/categories/#gitlab-dedicated-group";
    
        s_gitlab_dedicated-->g_pubsec_services["US PubSec
        group"];
        click g_pubsec_services "/handbook/product/categories/#us-public-sector-services-group";
    
        s_gitlab_dedicated-->g_switchboard["Switchboard
        group"];
        click g_switchboard "/handbook/product/categories/#switchboard";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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GitLab Dedicated stage

Slack Channel	#f_gitlab_dedicated
GitLab Group	@gitlab-com/gl-infra/platform
Handbook Page	Development
Product	Chris Balane
Engineering Leadership	Florbela Viegas
Product Design	Rayana Verissimo
Quality	Brittany Wilkerson

Environment Automation group

Slack Channel	#f_gitlab_dedicated
GitLab Group	@TBD
Handbook Page
Focus	GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Chris Balane
Engineering Leadership	Oriol Lluch
Engineering (21)	Andy Knight   Andrew Newdigate   Brendan McKitrick   Corey Cross   Chuck Daminato   Craig Miskell   Dave Dittman   Stephen Denham   Dylan Lau   Harpratap Singh   Konst Tchernov   Muhamed Huseinbašić   Nitin Dutt Sharma   Oriol Lluch   Riccardo Trivellato   Ryan Pham   Samir Hafez   Stephan Breitrainer   Nick Skoretz   Tania Roblot   Veronica Mondo
Product Design	Rayana Verissimo
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Wei-Meng Lee   Wade Jenkins   Daphne Kua   Armin Hergenhan
Technical Writing	Lysanne Pinto
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Dhruv Jain
Customer Success	Zane J Chua

Name	Maturity	Links
GitLab Dedicated		Documentation Page Direction Page

US PubSec group

Slack Channel	#g_dedicated-us-pubsec
GitLab Group	@TBD
Handbook Page	US Public Sector Services team
Focus	GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Senior Product Manager
Engineering Leadership	Matt Kirkevold
Engineering (9)	Senior Site Reliability Engineer   Casey Clark   Curt Marker   Emma Kelly   Joseph Burnitz   John Edge   Julie Brady   Matt Kirkevold   Stephen Hodges
Support	Wade Jenkins
Technical Writing	Lysanne Pinto

Name	Maturity	Links
US Public Sector Services		Documentation Page Direction Page

Switchboard group

Slack Channel	#g_dedicated_switchboard
GitLab Group	@TBD
Handbook Page	Switchboard team
Focus	GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Loryn Bortins
Engineering Leadership	Amy Shiel
Engineering (6)	Graeme Gillies   Grace Lin   Marina Mosti   Andrey Ruzmanov   Sean Arnold   Shubham Khandelwal
Product Design	Rayana Verissimo
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Product Designer	Jesse Hoek
Support	Armin Hergenhan
Technical Writing	Lysanne Pinto
Customer Success	Zane J Chua

Name	Maturity	Links
Switchboard		Documentation Page Direction Page

GitLab Delivery section

Slack Channel	#s_gitlab_delivery
Product	Martin Brümmer
Engineering Leadership	Michele Bursi
Product Design	Chris Micek
Technical Writing	Robert Landry
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Iris Gorman

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    gitlab_delivery[GitLab Delivery section]-->s_gitlab_delivery[GitLab Delivery stage];

    
        s_gitlab_delivery-->g_build["GitLab Build
        group"];
        click g_build "/handbook/product/categories/features/#self-managed-group";
    
        s_gitlab_delivery-->g_operate["Operate
        group"];
        click g_operate "/handbook/product/categories/features/#self-managed-group";
    
        s_gitlab_delivery-->g_release-and-deploy["Release and Deploy
        group"];
        click g_release-and-deploy "/handbook/<no value>";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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GitLab Delivery stage

Slack Channel	#s_gitlab_delivery
Handbook Page	GitLab Delivery
Product	Martin Brümmer
Engineering Leadership	Michele Bursi
Product Design	Chris Micek

GitLab Build group

Slack Channel	#g_build
Slack Alias	gitlab-build
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/gitlab-build
Handbook Page	GitLab Delivery:Build
Focus	Distribution PPI
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Martin Brümmer
Engineering Leadership	Denis Afonso
Engineering (6)	Alec Xu   Balasankar 'Balu' C   Dmitry Makovey   Jon Doveston   Pratik Singh   Robert Marshall
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Kaburu Chris
Technical Writing	Achilleas Pipinellis   Evan Read
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department Customer Success Product Security Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Build	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Omnibus Package	Complete	Documentation Page Direction Page

Operate group

Slack Channel	#g_operate
Slack Alias	operate-team
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/software-delivery/operate
Handbook Page	GitLab Delivery: Operate
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Martin Brümmer
Engineering Leadership	Courtney Wilburn
Engineering (8)	Grant Young   Nailia Iskhakova   Nick Westbury   Clemens Beck   Hossein Pursultani   Jason Plum   João Alexandre Prado Tavares Cunha   Lucas Li
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Kaburu Chris
Technical Writing	Achilleas Pipinellis   Evan Read
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department Customer Success

Name	Maturity	Links
Omnibus Package	Complete	Documentation Page Direction Page
Cloud Native Installation	Competitive	Documentation Page Direction Page
Delivery		Documentation Page Direction Page

Release and Deploy group

Slack Channel	#g_release_and_deploy
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/delivery
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Martin Brümmer
Engineering Leadership	Dave Smith
Engineering (10)	Anthony Maina Ng'ang'a   Dat Tang   Jenny Kim   John T Skarbek   Mawreen Dela Cruz   Site Reliability Engineer   Akinyele Cafe-Febrissy   Alessio Caiazza   Mayra Cabrera   Reuben Pereira
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Technical Writing	#docs
Application Security Engineer	Ameya Darshan

Name	Maturity	Links
Delivery		Documentation Page Direction Page

Growth section

Slack Channel	#s_growth
Product	Pearl Shu
Engineering Leadership	Jerome Ng
Product Design	Taurie Davis
Technical Writing	Diana Logan
Infrastructure	Dave Smith
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Tiffany Chen

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    growth[Growth section]-->s_growth[Growth stage];

    
        s_growth-->g_acquisition["Acquisition
        group"];
        click g_acquisition "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_growth-->g_activation["Activation
        group"];
        click g_activation "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_growth-->g_engagement["Engagement
        group"];
        click g_engagement "/handbook/<no value>";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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Growth stage

Slack Channel	#s_growth
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/growth
Handbook Page
Product	Pearl Shu
Engineering Leadership	Jerome Ng
Product Design	Emily Sybrant
Internal Customers	Sales Department Marketing Department Product Department Finance Department

Acquisition group

Slack Channel	#g_acquisition
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Gayle Doud
Engineering (3)	David Hamp-Gonsalves   Harsh Sagar   Serhii Yarynovskyi
Product Designer	Jesse Young
Technical Writing	#docs

Name	Maturity	Links
Acquisition		Direction Page
Onboarding		Direction Page

Activation group

Slack Channel	#g_activation
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Paige Cordero
Engineering (4)	Buck O'Leary   Doug Stull   Kiesha Herman   Roy Liu
Product Designer	Katie Macoy
Technical Writing	#docs

Name	Maturity	Links
Activation		Direction Page

Engagement group

Slack Channel	#g_engagement
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/growth/engagement
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Jeff Tucker
Engineering Leadership	Abhinaba Ghosh
UX Research	Thaina Tavares
Product Designer	Austin Regnery
Technical Writing	Kati Paizee

Name	Maturity	Links
Navigation		Direction Page
Settings

Production Engineering section

Slack Channel	#s_production_engineering
Product	Sam Wiskow
Engineering Leadership	Rachel Nienaber
Technical Writing	Robert Landry
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Iris Gorman

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    production_engineering[Production Engineering section]-->s_production_engineering[Production Engineering stage];

    
        s_production_engineering-->g_cloud_cost_utilization["Cloud Cost Utilization
        group"];
        click g_cloud_cost_utilization "/handbook/product/categories/";
    
        s_production_engineering-->g_networking_and_incident_management["Networking and Incident Management
        group"];
        click g_networking_and_incident_management "/handbook/product/categories/";
    
        s_production_engineering-->g_observability["Observability
        group"];
        click g_observability "/handbook/product/categories/";
    
        s_production_engineering-->g_runners_platform["Runners Platform
        group"];
        click g_runners_platform "/handbook/product/categories/#production-engineering-stage";
    
        s_production_engineering-->g_runway["Runway
        group"];
        click g_runway "/handbook/product/categories/";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

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Production Engineering stage

Slack Channel	#s_production_engineering
Handbook Page	Production Engineering
Product	Sam Wiskow
Engineering Leadership	Rachel Nienaber
Product Design	Chris Micek

Cloud Cost Utilization group

Slack Channel	#g_cloud-cost-utilization
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	Liam McAndrew
Technical Writing	#docs
Internal Customers	Infrastructure Platforms Department

Networking and Incident Management group

Slack Channel	#g_networking_and_incident_management
Handbook Page	Production Engineering Networking and Incident Management Team
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sam Wiskow
Engineering Leadership	Steve Abrams
Engineering (5)	Alex Hanselka   Devin Sylva   Donna Alexandra   Sarah Walker   Shreya Shah
Technical Writing	#docs
Internal Customers	Infrastructure Platforms Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Rate Limiting Framework		Direction Page

Observability group

Slack Channel	#g_observability
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sam Wiskow
Engineering Leadership	Liam McAndrew
Engineering (9)	Hercules Lemke Merscher   Itay Rotman   Calliope Gardner   Nick Duff   Stephanie Jackson   Taliesin Millhouse   Tony Ganga   Andreas Brandl   Bob Van Landuyt
Technical Writing	#docs
Internal Customers	Infrastructure Platforms Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Error Budgets		Documentation Page Direction Page
Capacity Planning		Documentation Page Direction Page

Runners Platform group

Slack Channel	#g_runners_platform
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/production-engineering/runners-platform
Handbook Page	Production Engineering Runners Platform Team
Focus	Runners Platform
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sam Wiskow
Engineering Leadership	Kam Kyrala
Engineering (10)	Anton Starovoytov   Adeline Yeung   Ermia Qasemi   Igor Wiedler   Kam Kyrala   Rehab Hassanein   Zoe Braddock   Davis Bickford   Joe Shaw   Tomasz Maczukin
Technical Writing	#docs
Internal Customers	Runner Department Gabriel Engel GitLab Dedicated Cells Infrastructure

Name	Maturity	Links
GitLab Hosted Runners	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Runway group

Slack Channel	#g_runway
Handbook Page
Focus	Service enabblement
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sam Wiskow
Engineering Leadership	JP Toto
Engineering (7)	Cameron S McFarland   Senior Site Reliability Engineer   Florian Forster   Gonzalo Servat   Jose Martin   Pierre Guinoiseau   Silvester Wainaina
Technical Writing	#docs
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department

Sec section

Slack Channel	#sec-section
Product	VP of Product Management
Engineering Leadership	Michael "Maw" Wildpaner
Product Design	Valerie Karnes
Technical Writing	Robert Landry
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Iris Gorman

graph TD;

  

  

  
    sec[Sec section]-->s_application_security_testing[Application Security Testing stage];

    
        s_application_security_testing-->g_composition_analysis["Composition Analysis
        group"];
        click g_composition_analysis "/handbook/product/categories/#composition-analysis-group";
    
        s_application_security_testing-->g_dynamic_analysis["Dynamic Analysis
        group"];
        click g_dynamic_analysis "/handbook/product/categories/#dynamic-analysis-group";
    
        s_application_security_testing-->g_secret_detection["Secret Detection
        group"];
        click g_secret_detection "/handbook/product/categories/#secret-detection-group";
    
        s_application_security_testing-->g_static_analysis["Static Analysis
        group"];
        click g_static_analysis "/handbook/product/categories/#static-analysis-group";
    
        s_application_security_testing-->g_vulnerability_research["Vulnerability Research
        group"];
        click g_vulnerability_research "/handbook/product/categories/#vulnerability-research-group";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    sec[Sec section]-->s_security_risk_management[Security Risk Management stage];

    
        s_security_risk_management-->g_security_infrastructure["Security Infrastructure
        group"];
        click g_security_infrastructure "/handbook/product/categories/#security-infrastructure-group";
    
        s_security_risk_management-->g_security_insights["Security Insights
        group"];
        click g_security_insights "/handbook/product/categories/#security-insights-group";
    
        s_security_risk_management-->g_security_platform_management["Security Platform Management
        group"];
        click g_security_platform_management "/handbook/product/categories/#security-platform-management-group";
    
        s_security_risk_management-->g_security_policies["Security Policies
        group"];
        click g_security_policies "/handbook/product/categories/#security-policies-group";
    
  

  
    sec[Sec section]-->s_software_supply_chain_security[Software Supply Chain Security stage];

    
        s_software_supply_chain_security-->g_anti-abuse["Anti-Abuse
        group"];
        click g_anti-abuse "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_software_supply_chain_security-->g_authentication["Authentication
        group"];
        click g_authentication "/handbook/product/product-categories#authentation-group";
    
        s_software_supply_chain_security-->g_authorization["Authorization
        group"];
        click g_authorization "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_software_supply_chain_security-->g_compliance["Compliance
        group"];
        click g_compliance "/handbook/product/product-categories#compliance-group";
    
        s_software_supply_chain_security-->g_pipeline_security["Pipeline Security
        group"];
        click g_pipeline_security "/handbook/product/categories/#pipeline-security-group";
    
  

  

  

  

Click on a group name to see more details.

Application Security Testing stage

Slack Channel	#s_application-security-testing
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/secure
Handbook Page	Application Security Testing Sub-Department
Product	Connor Gilbert
Engineering Leadership	Director, Engineering
Product Design	Marissa Henri

Composition Analysis group

Slack Channel	#g_ast-composition-analysis
Slack Alias	secure_composition_analysis_dev
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/secure/composition-analysis-dev
Focus	Composition Analysis Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Joel Patterson
Engineering Leadership	Nick Ilieskou
Engineering (6)	Oscar Tovar   Igor Frenkel   Nick Ilieskou   Olivier Gonzalez   Orin Naaman   Zamir Martins Filho
Support	Ugur Dokmeci
Technical Writing	Russell Dickenson
Customer Success	Bryan Miller   Brian Wald
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Software Composition Analysis	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Container Scanning	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Dynamic Analysis group

Slack Channel	#g_ast-dynamic-analysis
Slack Alias	secure_dynamic_analysis_be
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/secure/dynamic-analysis-be
Focus	Dynamic Analysis Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Joel Patterson
Engineering Leadership	Mike Eddington
Engineering (3)	Arpit Gogia   Hannah Baker   Mike Eddington
Support	Thomas Loughlin
Technical Writing	Roshni Sarangadharan
Customer Success	Bryan Miller   Brian Wald
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
DAST	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Fuzz Testing	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
API Security	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Attack Emulation

Secret Detection group

Slack Channel	#g_ast-secret-detection
Slack Alias	ast_secret_detection_team
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/secure/secret-detection
Focus	Secret Detection Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Connor Gilbert
Engineering Leadership	Amar Patel
Engineering (6)	Radu Birsan   Ahmed Hemdan   Aditya Tiwari   Craig Smith   Serena Fang   Vishwa Bhat
Support	Christopher Chewa Mutua
Technical Writing	Roshni Sarangadharan
Customer Success	Bryan Miller   Brian Wald
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Secret Detection	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Static Analysis group

Slack Channel	#g_ast-static-analysis
Slack Alias	secure_static_analysis_team
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/secure/static-analysis
Focus	SAST Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Chris Widstrom
Engineering Leadership	Manager, Engineering
Engineering (6)	Adam Cohen   Hua Yan   Julian Thome   Mher Tolpin   Philip Cunningham   Shao Ming Tan
Support	Christopher Chewa Mutua
Technical Writing	Russell Dickenson
Customer Success	Bryan Miller   Brian Wald
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
SAST	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Code Quality	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Vulnerability Research group

Slack Channel	#g_ast-vulnerability-research
Focus	Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Connor Gilbert
Engineering Leadership	Daniel Abeles
Engineering (8)	Abisheik Magesh   Adarsh Dinesh   Alexander Dietrich   Bhavya Kaushal   Daniel Abeles   Dinesh Bolkensteyn   Isaac Dawson   Michael Henriksen
Support	Mario Mora
Technical Writing	#docs
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Dennis Appelt Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
GitLab Advisory Database		Direction Page

Security Risk Management stage

Slack Channel	#s_srm
Product	Dean Agron
Engineering Leadership	Director, Engineering
Product Design	Marissa Henri

Security Infrastructure group

Slack Channel	#g_srm_security_infrastructure
Focus	Threat Insights Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	Ryan Wells
Engineering (8)	Adrien Narinesingh   Bala Kumar Subramani   Gregory Havenga   Mehmet Emin Inac   Michał Zając   Ryan Wells   Schmil Monderer   Rushik Subba
Technical Writing	#docs

Name	Maturity	Links
Vulnerability Management	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Dependency Management	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Security Insights group

Slack Channel	#g_srm_security_insights
Focus	Threat Insights Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Mike Clausen
Engineering Leadership	Manager, Engineering
Engineering (9)	Charlie Kroon   Dave Pisek   Lorenz van Herwaarden   Samantha Ming   Savas Vedova   Brian Williams   Harrison Peters   Subashis Chakraborty   Ugo Nnanna Okeadu
UX Research	Nikki Shechtman
Product Designer	Andrew Cummins   Becka Lippert
Support	Gerardo Gutierrez
Technical Writing	Ryan Lehmann
Customer Success	Mirko Brandner   Yu-Chen Hsueh
Internal Customers	Product Security Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Vulnerability Management	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Dependency Management	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Security Platform Management group

Slack Channel	#g_srm-security-platform-management
Focus	Sec section GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Michael Omokoh
Engineering Leadership	Or Gal
Engineering (6)	Chen Charnolevsky   Dheeraj Joshi   Miranda Fluharty   Gal Katz   Miki Amos   Ross Fuhrman
Product Designer	Michael Fangman
Support	Gerardo Gutierrez
Technical Writing	Ryan Lehmann
Customer Success	Mirko Brandner   Yu-Chen Hsueh
Internal Customers	Product Security Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Security Testing Configuration	Planned 2024	Direction Page
Security Asset Inventories	Planned 2024	Direction Page
Security Testing Integrations	Planned 2024	Direction Page

Security Policies group

Slack Channel	#g_srm_security_policies
Focus	Security Policies Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Grant Hickman
Engineering Leadership	Alan (Maciej) Paruszewski
Engineering (8)	Alexander Turinske   Artur Fedorov   Martin Cavoj   Andy Schoenen   Dominic Bauer   Md Imam Hossain   Marcos Rocha   Sashi Kumar Kumaresan
UX Research	Nikki Shechtman
Product Designer	Torian Parker
Support	Danny Bailey   Ulises Fierro
Technical Writing	Ryan Lehmann
Customer Success	Mirko Brandner   Yu-Chen Hsueh
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Security Assurance Department Byron Boots Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Security Policy Management	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Software Supply Chain Security stage

Slack Channel	#s_software_supply_chain_security/
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/software-supply-chain-security/
Handbook Page	Software Supply Chain Security Sub-department
Product	Amit Shalem
Engineering Leadership	Mark Mishaev

Anti-Abuse group

Slack Channel	#g_govern_anti-abuse
Focus	Software Supply Chain Security Anti-Abuse GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Joe Randazzo
Engineering Leadership	Ajay Thomas
Engineering (10)	Daniel Tian   Ayush Billore   Alex Buijs   Diane Russel   Eugie Limpin   Hinam Mehra   Ian Anderson   Jay Swain   Matthew MacRae-Bovell   Mo Khan
Product Designer	Ilonah Pelaez
Technical Writing	#docs
Internal Customers	Security Operations Department Shawn Sichak

Name	Maturity	Links
Instance Resiliency	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
Insider Threat	Minimal	Direction Page

Authentication group

Slack Channel	#g_sscs_authentication
Focus	Software Supply Chain Security Authentication Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Nelly Vahab
Engineering Leadership	Adil Farrukh
Engineering (13)	Eduardo Sanz-Garcia   Fernando Cardenas   Aleksei Lipniagov   Andrew Evans   Bogdan Denkovych   Daniele Bracciani   Hakeem Abdul-Razak   Imre Farkas   Jason Knabl   Matthias Käppler   Shilpa Kundapur   Smriti Garg   Aboobacker MK
UX Research	Nikki Shechtman
Product Designer	Sayo Bittencourt
Support	Asmaa Hassan Ahmed Ali   Jio Castillo
Technical Writing	Isaac Durham
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni
Internal Customers	Customer Support Department Product Security Department Rohit Shambhuni Corporate Security Department Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
System Access	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
User Profile		Documentation Page Direction Page

Authorization group

Slack Channel	#g_sscs_authorization
Focus	Software Supply Chain Security Authorization Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Joe Randazzo
Engineering Leadership	Ajay Thomas
Engineering (10)	Daniel Tian   Ayush Billore   Alex Buijs   Diane Russel   Eugie Limpin   Hinam Mehra   Ian Anderson   Jay Swain   Matthew MacRae-Bovell   Mo Khan
UX Research	Nikki Shechtman
Product Designer	Ilonah Pelaez
Technical Writing	Isaac Durham
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Rohit Shambhuni Corporate Security Department Security Operations Department Shawn Sichak

Name	Maturity	Links
Permissions	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Compliance group

Slack Channel	#g_sscs_compliance
Focus	Software Supply Chain Security Compliance Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Ian Khor
Engineering Leadership	Nathan Rosandich
Engineering (8)	Illya Klymov   Sam Figueroa   Scott Hampton   Andrew Jung   Harsimar Sandhu   Hitesh Raghuvanshi   Huzaifa Iftikhar   Jean van der Walt
UX Research	Nikki Shechtman
Product Designer	Camellia X. Yang
Technical Writing	#docs
Internal Customers	Customer Support Department Product Security Department Security Assurance Department Byron Boots Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Audit Events	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Compliance Management	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Release Evidence	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Pipeline Security group

Slack Channel	#g_sscs_pipeline-security
Focus	Pipeline Security Sum of AMAUs
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Jocelyn Eillis
Engineering Leadership	Ken McDonald
Engineering (9)	Ahmad Hussein   Mireya Andres   Alex Scheel   Dmytro Biryukov   Erick Bajao   Fabien Catteau   Jayakrishnan Mallissery   Shabini Rajadas   Sam Joan Roque-Worcel
UX Research	Nikki Shechtman
Product Designer	Jaclyn Touchstone
Support	Nilanka De Silva   Paul Murray
Technical Writing	Marcel Amirault
Internal Customers	Quality Department UX Department Infrastructure Department AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group Product Security Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Artifact Security	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
Secrets Management	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Tenant Scale section

Slack Channel	#s_tenant_scale
Product	Mark Wood
Engineering Leadership	Gerardo "Gerir" Lopez-Fernandez
Technical Writing	Robert Landry
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Iris Gorman

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    tenant_scale[Tenant Scale section]-->s_tenant_scale[Tenant Scale stage];

    
        s_tenant_scale-->g_cells_infrastructure["Cells Infrastructure
        group"];
        click g_cells_infrastructure "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_tenant_scale-->g_geo["Geo
        group"];
        click g_geo "/handbook/product/categories/#geo-group";
    
        s_tenant_scale-->g_git["Git
        group"];
        click g_git "/handbook/product/categories/#git-group";
    
        s_tenant_scale-->g_gitaly["Gitaly
        group"];
        click g_gitaly "/handbook/product/categories/#gitalycluster-group";
    
        s_tenant_scale-->g_organizations["Organizations
        group"];
        click g_organizations "/handbook/product/categories/#tenant-scale-stage";
    
        s_tenant_scale-->g_tenant_services["Tenant Services
        group"];
        click g_tenant_services "/handbook/<no value>";
    
  

  

  

Click on a group name to see more details.

Tenant Scale stage

Slack Channel	#s_tenant_scale
Handbook Page	Tenant Scale Group
Product	Mark Wood
Engineering Leadership	Nick Nguyen
Product Design	Chris Micek
Quality	Andy Hohenner

Cells Infrastructure group

Slack Channel	#g_cells_infrastructure
Focus	Cells
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	Nick Nguyen
Engineering (13)	Aaron Richter   David Leach   Tarun Khandelwal   Vladimir Glafirov   Bojan Marjanović   Kamil Trzciński   Jen-Shin Lin   Gregorius Marco   Rémy Coutable   Sami Hiltunen   Sangwoo Han   Thong Kuah   Tomasz Skorupa
Technical Writing	#docs
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni

Name	Maturity	Links
Cell		Direction Page

Geo group

Slack Channel	#g_geo
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/geo-team
Handbook Page
Focus	Geo Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	Lucie Zhao
Engineering (11)	Zack Cuddy   Chloé Fons   Douglas Barbosa Alexandre   Ian Baum   Kamil Trzciński   Michael Kozono   Natanael Silva   Rémy Coutable   Scott Murray   Thong Kuah   Victor Prêté
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Mario Mora   Daniel Diniz de Noronha   Bo Carbonell
Technical Writing	Achilleas Pipinellis
Application Security Engineer	Ameya Darshan
Internal Customers	Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Geo Replication	Competitive	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page
Disaster Recovery	Competitive	Documentation Page Direction Page
Backup/Restore of GitLab instances	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Git group

Slack Channel	#g_git
Handbook Page
Focus	Driving Git adoption
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	Patrick Steinhardt
Engineering (5)	Christian Couder   Justin Tobler   Karthik Nayak   Patrick Steinhardt   Toon Claes
Support	Len MacRae   Gerardo Gutierrez
Technical Writing	Evan Read
Application Security Engineer	Ameya Darshan
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Git		Documentation Page Direction Page

Gitaly group

Slack Channel	#g_gitaly
Handbook Page
Focus	Gitaly GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	John Cai
Engineering (9)	Divya Rani   Emily Chui   Eric Ju   James Liu   John Cai   Mustafa Bayar   Olivier Campeau   Quang-Minh Nguyen   Sohan Dhanak
Support	David Wainaina   John Gaughan
Technical Writing	Evan Read
Application Security Engineer	Ameya Darshan
Customer Success	Conley Rogers   Simon Mansfield
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Gitaly		Documentation Page Direction Page

Organizations group

Slack Channel	#g_organizations
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/tenant-scale-group
Handbook Page	Organizations Team
Focus	Database PPI
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	Matt Andrews
Engineering (13)	Peter Hegman   Aakriti Gupta   Abdul Wadood   Alex Pooley   Backend Engineer   Drew Blessing   Kamil Trzciński   Rémy Coutable   Rutger Wessels   Shubham Kumar   Shane Maglangit   Thong Kuah   Tim McCarthy
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Product Designer	Pedro Moreira da Silva   Jason Hung
Support	Bruno Freitas   Asmaa Hassan Ahmed Ali
Technical Writing	Zach Painter
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Groups & Projects	Competitive	Documentation Page Direction Page
Organization	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Tenant Services group

Slack Channel	#g_tenant_services
Handbook Page	Tenant Services Team
Features in this Group	Features
Engineering Leadership	John 'Jarv' Jarvis
Engineering (6)	Ahmad Sherif   Furhan Shabir   Matt Smiley   Pravar Gauba   Raynard Omongbale   Gabriel Mazetto
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Technical Writing	Achilleas Pipinellis
Internal Customers	Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Redis		Direction Page

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

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.

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

Plan stage

Project Management group

Project Management group

• assignees
• milestones
• due dates
• labels
• issue weights
• quick actions
• email notifications
• to-do list
• Real-time features

Knowledge group

Knowledge group

• markdown functionality
• rich text editor

Other functionality in Create stage

Create stage

Code Review group

Code Review group

• Merge Requests
• GitLab CLI

Remote Development group

Remote Development group

• GitLab Workflow extension for Visual Studio Code

Other functionality in Verify

CI Group

CI Group

• CI Abuse Response

Pipeline Authoring Group

Pipeline Authoring Group

• CI/CD Template Management and Contributions

Other functionality in Analytics Stage

Analytics Stage

Other functionality in Developer Experience

Developer Experience

• Reference Architectures
• GitLab Environment Toolkit (GET)
• GitLab Performance Tool (GPT)
• Performance Test Data
• Zero Downtime Testing Tool
• GitLab Development Kit (GDK)

Internal Customers: Gitaly, SaaS Platforms section, Infrastructure Department, Support Department, Customer Success

Other functionality in Analytics

Analytics

Product Analytics group

Product Analytics group

• Analytics Dashboards - used by many groups to add visualizations or provide pre-configured dashboards to users

Facilitated functionality

Some product areas are have a broad impact across multiple stages. Examples of this include, among others:

• 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.
• Dashboards for displaying analytics, such as Product Analytics, Value Stream Analytics, and others.

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.

Shared responsibility functionality

There are certain product capabilities that are foundational in nature and affect or refer to horizontal components of the architecture that have an impact across functional groups and stages.

These capabilities may refer to “Facilitated Functionality” (see section above) where the mental models are owned by a particular group, while anyone can contribute. However, there may be others that will not have a clear owner because they don’t fall squarely into any particular group’s purview of product categories. Prime examples of this are issues related to the improvement or evolution of foundational components, frameworks and libraries that are used by several or all groups across the organization. Another example could be components created by special task groups in the past that have been since dissolved and that have not required continued development to justify the funding of a dedicated permanent group to maintain them.

Whatever the source of the functionality, rather than thinking of these components as “not having an owner”, it is important to think of them as being owned by everyone through the lens of shared responsibility. “Shared responsibility” means that every group should be committed and responsible to contribute to their continued maintenance, improvement and innovation.

Contribution, in this context, may manifest in different ways:

• Triage by coordinating conversations with stakeholders from different functions and at different levels to find the right owner and/or set the right level of priority.
• Product feature scoping and UX design by fleshing out the details of implementation in requirements documents and/or mockups.
• Technical scoping and feasibility analysis for possible technical and architectural approaches to implementation
• Actual implementation and release activities

It does not mean, however, that a single group should necessarily be solely responsible for all of these activities. Multiple groups could end up collaborating in execution. This coordination however requires a careful triage of the shared responsibility issues in the issue tracker where a single DRI coordinates these activities.

For more information please review this section in the quality department handbook to learn more about a decentralized approach to triaging these types of issues.

Categories A-Z

Category	Group
Acquisition acquisition	Acquisition
Activation activation	Activation
Add-on Provisioning add-on_provisioning	Provision
GitLab Advisory Database advisory_database	Vulnerability Research
AI Abstraction Layer ai_abstraction_layer	AI Framework
AI Agents ai_agents	MLOps
AI Evaluation ai_evaluation	AI Framework
AI Research ai_research	AI Framework
API Security api_security	Dynamic Analysis
Application Instrumentation application_instrumentation	Analytics Instrumentation
Artifact Security artifact_security	Pipeline Security
Attack Emulation attack_emulation	Dynamic Analysis
Audit Events audit_events	Compliance
Auto DevOps auto_devops	Runner Core
Backup/Restore of GitLab instances backup_restore	Geo
Build build	GitLab Build
Capacity Planning capacity_planning	Observability
Cell cell	Cells Infrastructure
Cloud Native Installation cloud_native_installation	Operate
Code Quality code_quality	Static Analysis
Code Review Workflow code_review_workflow	Code Review
Code Search code_search	Global Search
Code Suggestions code_suggestions	Code Creation
Code Testing and Coverage code_testing	Pipeline Execution
Compliance Management compliance_management	Compliance
Component Catalog component_catalog	Pipeline Authoring
Consumables Cost Management consumables_cost_management	Utilization
Container Registry container_registry	Container Registry
Container Scanning container_scanning	Composition Analysis
Continuous Delivery continuous_delivery	Environments
Continuous Integration (CI) continuous_integration	Pipeline Execution
Custom Dashboards Foundation custom_dashboards_foundation	Platform Insights
CustomersDot and quote to cash integrations customersdot_and_quote_to_cash_integrations	Fulfillment Platform
Database database	Database Frameworks Database Operations
DataOps dataops	DataOps
GitLab Dedicated dedicated	Environment Automation
Delivery delivery	Operate Release and Deploy
Dependency Firewall dependency_firewall	Container Registry
Dependency Management dependency_management	Security Infrastructure Security Insights
Deployment Management deployment_management	Runner Core
Design Management design_management	Product Planning
Pajamas Design System design_system	Design System
DevOps Reports devops_reports	Optimize
Disaster Recovery disaster_recovery	Geo
DORA Metrics dora_metrics	Optimize
Duo Agent Platform duo_agent_platform	Agent Foundations
Duo Chat duo_chat	Duo Chat
GitLab Duo Settings duo_setting	Custom Models
DAST dynamic_application_security_testing	Dynamic Analysis
Editor Extensions editor_extensions	Editor Extensions
Environment Management environment_management	Runner Core
Error Budgets error_budgets	Observability
Feature Flags feature_flags	Environments
Fleet Visibility fleet_visibility	CI Platform
Fulfillment Infradev fulfillment_infradev	Fulfillment Platform
Fuzz Testing fuzz_testing	Dynamic Analysis
Geo Replication geo_replication	Geo
Git git	Git
Gitaly gitaly	Gitaly
GitLab CLI gitlab_cli	Code Review
GitLab Documentation Site gitlab_docs	Technical Writing
Global Search global_search	Global Search
Groups & Projects groups_and_projects	Organizations
Helm Chart Registry helm_chart_registry	Package Registry
GitLab Hosted Runners hosted_runners	Runners Platform
Importers importers	Import
Incident Management incident_management	Platform Insights
Infrastructure as Code infrastructure_as_code	Runner Core
Insider Threat insider_threat	Anti-Abuse
Instance Resiliency instance_resiliency	Anti-Abuse
Job Artifacts job_artifacts	Pipeline Execution
Markdown markdown	Knowledge
MCP Server mcp_server	AI Framework
Merge Trains merge_trains	Pipeline Execution
MLOps mlops	MLOps
Mobile DevOps mobile_devops	Mobile DevOps
Model Personalization model_personalization	Custom Models
Navigation navigation	Engagement
Notifications notifications	Project Management
Observability observability	Platform Insights
OKR Management okr_management	Product Planning
Omnibus Package omnibus_package	GitLab Build Operate
On-call Schedule Management on_call_schedule_management	Platform Insights
Onboarding onboarding	Acquisition
Organization organization	Organizations
Package Registry package_registry	Package Registry
Pages pages	Knowledge
Performance Tooling performance_tooling	Performance Enablement
Permissions permissions	Authorization
Pipeline Composition pipeline_composition	Pipeline Authoring
Plan Provisioning plan_provisioning	Provision
Portfolio Management portfolio_management	Product Planning
Product Analytics product_analytics	Platform Insights
US Public Sector Services pubsec_services	US PubSec
Quality Management quality_management	Product Planning
Rate Limiting Framework rate_limiting	Networking and Incident Management
Redis redis	Tenant Services
Release Evidence release_evidence	Compliance
Release Orchestration release_orchestration	Environments
Requirements Management requirements_management	Product Planning
Review Apps review_apps	Pipeline Execution
GitLab Runner Core runner_core	Runner Core
Seat Cost Management seat_cost_management	Seat Management
Secret Detection secret_detection	Secret Detection
Secrets Management secrets_management	Pipeline Security
Security Asset Inventories security_asset_inventories	Security Platform Management
Security Policy Management security_policy_management	Security Policies
Security Testing Configuration security_testing_configuration	Security Platform Management
Security Testing Integrations security_testing_integrations	Security Platform Management
Self-Hosted Models self-hosted_models	Custom Models
Service Desk service_desk	Project Management
Service Ping service_ping	Analytics Instrumentation
Settings settings	Engagement
Software Composition Analysis software_composition_analysis	Composition Analysis
Source Code Management source_code_management	Source Code
Software Supply Chain Security sscs
SAST static_application_security_testing	Static Analysis
Subscription Management subscription_management	Subscription Management
Switchboard switchboard	Switchboard
System Access system_access	Authentication
Team Planning team_planning	Project Management
Text Editors text_editors	Knowledge
User Management user_management	Seat Management
User Profile user_profile	Authentication
Value Stream Management value_stream_management	Optimize
Virtual Registry virtual_registry	Container Registry
Vulnerability Management vulnerability_management	Security Infrastructure Security Insights
Web IDE web_ide	Editor Extensions
Wiki wiki	Knowledge
AI Catalog workflow_catalog	Workflow Catalog
Workspaces workspaces	Remote Development