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 aligned logically starting with the 7 loop stages of Plan, Create, Verify, Secure, Package, Deploy, and Monitor. We then add the value stages that we talk about in marketing. These include Manage and Govern. Lastly, we add the team stages: Growth, Systems and Data Stores. These stages have groups that rally around the same users, GitLab integrators, GitLab itself, and GitLab administrators, respectively. Stages are maintained in data/stages.yml. Each stage has a corresponding devops::<stage> label under the gitlab-org group.
3. Group: A stage has one or more groups. Groups are maintained in data/stages.yml. Each group has a corresponding group::<group> label under the gitlab-org group.
4. Categories: A group has one or more categories. Categories are high-level capabilities that may be a standalone product at another company. e.g. Portfolio Management. To the extent possible we should map categories to vendor categories defined by analysts. There are a maximum of 8 high-level categories per stage to ensure we can display this on our website and pitch deck. (Categories that do not show up on marketing pages show up here in italics and do not count toward this limit.) There may need to be fewer categories, or shorter category names, if the aggregate number of lines when rendered would exceed 13 lines, when accounting for category names to word-wrap, which occurs at approximately 15 characters. Categories are maintained in data/categories.yml. Each category has a corresponding Category:<Category> label under the gitlab-org group. Category maturity is managed in the product Category Maturity Change process
5. Features: Small, discrete functionalities. e.g. Issue weights. Some common features are listed within parentheses to facilitate finding responsible PMs by keyword. Features are maintained in data/features.yml. It’s recommended to associate feature labels to a category or a group with feature_labels in data/categories.yml or data/stages.yml.

Notes:

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

Naming

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

For groups that have two or more categories, but not all categories in a stage, the group name must be a unique word or a summation of the categories they cover.

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

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

More Details

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

Marketing product page > docs page > direction page

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

Solutions

Solutions can consist of multiple categories 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

The impact of changes to sections, stages and groups is felt across the company.

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

Merge requests with changes to sections, stages and groups and significant changes to categories need to be created, approved, and/or merged by each of the below:

1. Chief Product Officer
2. PLT Leader relevant to the affected Section(s)
3. The Director of Product relevant to the affected Section(s)
4. The Director of Engineering relevant to the affected Section(s)
5. Director of Product Design

_Note: Chief Product Officer approval should be requested once all other approvals have been completed. To request approval, post the MR link in the #chief-product-officer channel tagging both the Chief Product Offcer and cc’ing the EBA to the Chief Product Officer.

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

1. Chief Technology Officer
2. Development Leader relevant to the affected Section(s)
3. VP of Infrastructure & Quality Engineering
4. VP of UX
5. Director, Technical Writing
6. Engineering Productivity (by @ mentioning @gl-quality/eng-prod)
7. The Product Marketing Manager relevant to the stage group(s)

After approval and prior to merging, ping the Engineering Manager for Quality Engineering in the MR, if there are changes that:

• Add a new category, group, stage or section
• Move an existing category to a new or existing group
• Move an existing group to a new or existing stage
• Move an existing stage to a new or existing section
• Rename a group, stage or section
• Delete a group, stage or section

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

Upon approval, tag the group Technical Writer in the merge request to ensure documentation metadata is updated after the category change is merged.

Ensure that relevant slack channels are updated following our slack channel naming convention, open an access request to have slack channel names updated as they can no longer be updated by creators.

Examples

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

Changes that require the above approvers include:

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

Changes that require approval only from the relevant Product Leadership Team member include:

• Changing name or removing a non-marketing category, per the marketing attribute.

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

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

Changing group name

When changing the name of a group, create a merge request to change the group name in data/stages.yml using the Group-Stage-Category-Change template, and make sure to complete all the steps in the template.

Changing category name

When changing an existing category name, there are some considerations to the order of events:

• First, create a MR to change the name in data/stages.yml and spec/homepage/category_spec.rb.
• Get sign off from all required stakeholders listed in the instructions above.
• Merge the name change MR.
• Tag the category’s technical writer so that they can update the documentation metadata
• Re-name the category direction page with a new MR. Search for the old category name on the category direction page to ensure the name has been updated in all places.
• Use the #it-help Slack channel to request an update to Slack channel name for the re-named category

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 VP, Product Management 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

Analytics section

Slack Channel	#ops-section
Handbook Page
Product	Steve Evangelista
Development	Tim Zallmann
Product Design	Taurie Davis
UX Research	Will Leidheiser   Nick Hertz
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Eugene McCrann

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    analytics[Analytics section]-->s_monitor[Monitor stage];

    
        s_monitor-->g_analytics_instrumentation["Analytics Instrumentation
        group"];
        click g_analytics_instrumentation "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_monitor-->g_platform_insights["Platform Insights
        group"];
        click g_platform_insights "/handbook/<no value>";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Click on a group name to see more details.

Monitor stage

Slack Channel	#analytics-section
Handbook Page	Development
Product	Sam Kerr
Development	Tim Zallmann
Test Platform	Ievgen Chernikov
Product Design	Justin Mandell
UX Research	Nick Hertz

Analytics Instrumentation group

	Backend
Development Totals	7

Slack Channel	#g_analyze_analytics_instrumentation
Handbook Page	Analytics Instrumentation Group
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Tanuja Jayarama Raju
Backend Engineering Manager	Jiaan Louw
Backend Engineering	Ankit Panchal   Sebastian Rehm   Jonas Larsen   Michał Wielich   Niko Belokolodov   Nwanna Isong   Sarah Yasonik
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Application Security Engineer	Greg Myers
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

Platform Insights group

Slack Channel	#g_monitor_platform_insights
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Lindsy Farina
Backend Engineering Manager	Nicholas Klick
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Technical Writing	Lorena Ciutacu
Application Security Engineer	Greg Myers
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	Mike Flouton
Development	Sam Goldstein
Product Design	Marcel van Remmerden
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Product Marketing	Dan Hom
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";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Click on a group name to see more details.

Deploy stage

Slack Channel	#s_deploy
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/ci-cd/deploy-stage/environments-group
Handbook Page	Environments Group
Product	Viktor Nagy
Development	Nicolò Maria Mezzopera
Product Design	Rayana Verissimo

Environments group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	4	2

Slack Channel	#g_environments
Slack Alias	Environments Group
Handbook Page	Environments Group
Focus	TBD
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Viktor Nagy
Development	Nicolò Maria Mezzopera
Backend Engineering	Staff Backend Engineer   Taka Nishida   Tiger Watson   Timo Furrer
Frontend Engineering	Andrew Fontaine   Anna Vovchenko
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Product Marketing	Dan Hom
Support	Lewis Brown
Technical Writing	Phillip Wells
Application Security Engineer	Ameya Darshan
Internal Customers	Quality Department Delivery Team Reliability Engineering Devin Sylva Distribution Team AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group

Name	Maturity	Links
Auto DevOps	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Continuous Delivery	Competitive	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page
Deployment Management	Viable	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page
Environment Management	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Feature Flags	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Infrastructure as Code	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Release Orchestration	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

CI section

Slack Channel	#ci-section
Handbook Page
Product	Jackie Porter
Development	Sam Goldstein
Product Design	Marcel van Remmerden
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Product Marketing	Dan Hom
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_platform["CI Platform
        group"];
        click g_ci_platform "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_verify-->g_hosted_runners["Hosted Runners
        group"];
        click g_hosted_runners "/handbook/product/categories/#hosted-runners";
    
        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["Runner
        group"];
        click g_runner "/handbook/product/categories/#runner-group";
    
  

Click on a group name to see more details.

Package stage

Slack Channel	#s_package
Handbook Page	Package Stage
Product	Tim Rizzi
Development	Crystal Poole
Test Platform	Tiffany Rea
Product Design	Rayana Verissimo

Container Registry group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	6	1

Slack Channel	#g_container-registry
Slack Alias	container-registry-group
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/ci-cd/package-stage/container-registry-group
Handbook Page	Package:Container Registry Group
Focus	Container Registry GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Tim Rizzi
Development	Crystal Poole
Backend Engineering	Backend Engineer   Hayley Swimelar   Jaime Martínez   João Pereira   Senior Backend Engineer   Senior Backend Engineer
Frontend Engineering	Rahul Chanila
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Support	Kate Grechishkina
Technical Writing	Marcel Amirault
Application Security Engineer	Greg Myers
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 2024	Direction Page

Package Registry group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	4	1

Slack Channel	#g_package-registry
Slack Alias	package-registry-group
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/ci-cd/package-stage/package-registry-group
Handbook Page	Package:Package Registry Group
Focus	Package Registry GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Tim Rizzi
Development	Crystal Poole
Backend Engineering	David Fernandez   Dzmitry Meshcharakou   Moaz Khalifa   Rad Batnag
Frontend Engineering	Rahul Chanila
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Support	Kate Grechishkina
Technical Writing	Phillip Wells
Application Security Engineer	Greg Myers
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	Jackie Porter
Development	Cheryl Li
Test Platform	Tiffany Rea
Product Design	Rayana Verissimo

CI Platform group

	Backend
Development Totals	3

Slack Channel	#g_ci-platform
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Jackie Porter
Development	Cheryl Li
Backend Engineering	Senior Backend Engineer   Marius Bobin   Tianwen Chen
Support	Manuel Grabowski

Name	Maturity	Links
Continuous Integration (CI) Scaling	Viable	Direction Page

Hosted Runners group

Slack Channel	#g_hosted_runners
Focus	Verify & Hosted runners SMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Gabriel Engel
Development	Nicole Williams
Site Reliability Engineering	Rehab Hassanein
Test Platform	Joy Roodnick
Product Marketing	Dan Hom
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 Security Division

Name	Maturity	Links
GitLab Hosted Runners	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Pipeline Authoring group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	5	1

Slack Channel	#g_pipeline-authoring
Focus	Verify & Runner SMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Dov Hershkovitch
Development	Nicolò Maria Mezzopera
Backend Engineering	Avielle Wolfe   Furkan Ayhan   Kasia Misirli   Laura Montemayor   Rajendra Kadam
Frontend Engineering	Briley Sandlin
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Product Designer	Sunjung Park
Product Marketing	Dan Hom
Support	Luminus Alabi   Segolene Bouly   Manuel Grabowski
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
Variables	Complete	Documentation Page Direction Page
Component Catalog	Minimal	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page

Pipeline Execution group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	6	2

Slack Channel	#g_pipeline-execution
Focus	Verify & Runner SMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Rutvik Shah
Development	Caroline Simpson
Backend Engineering	Allison Browne   Daniel Prause   Hordur Freyr Yngvason   Max Fan   Panos Kanellidis   Vlad Wolanyk
Frontend Engineering	Jose Ivan Vargas   Payton Burdette
Test Platform	Tiffany Rea
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Product Designer	Veethika M
Product Marketing	Dan Hom
Support	Paul Murray   Charl Marais   Manuel Grabowski
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
Pipeline Reports	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Runner group

	Backend
Development Totals	12

Slack Channel	#g_runner
Focus	Verify & Runner SMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Darren Eastman
Development	Nicole Williams
Backend Engineering	Adrien Kohlbecker   Arran Walker   Axel von Bertoldi   Cam Swords   Davis Bickford   Georgi Georgiev   Hannes Hörl   Joe Shaw   Joe Burnett   Pedro Pombeiro   Romuald Atchadé   Tomasz Maczukin
Site Reliability Engineering	Rehab Hassanein
Test Platform	Joy Roodnick
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Product Designer	Gina Doyle
Product Marketing	Dan Hom
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
GitLab Runner Core	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Fleet Visibility	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Core Platform section

Product Design	Taurie Davis
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Infrastructure Manager	Dave Smith
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Iris Gorman

graph TD;

  

  

  

  
    core_platform[Core Platform section]-->s_data_stores[Data Stores stage];

    
        s_data_stores-->g_database["Database
        group"];
        click g_database "/handbook/product/categories/#database-group";
    
        s_data_stores-->g_global_search["Global Search
        group"];
        click g_global_search "/handbook/product/categories/#global-search-group";
    
        s_data_stores-->g_tenant_scale["Tenant Scale
        group"];
        click g_tenant_scale "/handbook/product/categories/#tenant-scale-group";
    
  

  

  

  
    core_platform[Core Platform section]-->s_foundations[Foundations stage];

    
        s_foundations-->g_design_system["Design System
        group"];
        click g_design_system "/handbook/product/categories/#design_system-group";
    
        s_foundations-->g_import_and_integrate["Import and Integrate
        group"];
        click g_import_and_integrate "/handbook/product/categories/#import_and_integrate-group";
    
        s_foundations-->g_personal_productivity["Personal Productivity
        group"];
        click g_personal_productivity "/handbook/product/categories/#personal_productivity-group";
    
        s_foundations-->g_ux_paper_cuts["UX Paper Cuts
        group"];
        click g_ux_paper_cuts "/handbook/product/categories/#ux_paper_cuts-group";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    core_platform[Core Platform section]-->s_systems[Systems stage];

    
        s_systems-->g_cloud_connector["Cloud Connector
        group"];
        click g_cloud_connector "/handbook/product/categories/#cloud-connector-group";
    
        s_systems-->g_distribution_build["Distribution::Build
        group"];
        click g_distribution_build "/handbook/product/categories/#distribution-group";
    
        s_systems-->g_distribution_deploy["Distribution::Deploy
        group"];
        click g_distribution_deploy "/handbook/product/categories/#distribution-group";
    
        s_systems-->g_geo["Geo
        group"];
        click g_geo "/handbook/product/categories/#geo-group";
    
        s_systems-->g_git["Git
        group"];
        click g_git "/handbook/product/categories/#git-group";
    
        s_systems-->g_gitaly_cluster["Gitaly::Cluster
        group"];
        click g_gitaly_cluster "/handbook/product/categories/#gitalycluster-group";
    
  

  

  

Click on a group name to see more details.

Data Stores stage

Slack Channel	#s_core_platform
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/core-platform-section
Handbook Page	Core Platform Sub-department
Development	Nick Nguyen
Test Platform	John McDonnell
Product Design	Chris Micek

Database group

	Backend
Development Totals	9

Slack Channel	#g_database
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/database-team
Handbook Page
Focus	Database PPI
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sampath Ranasinghe
Backend Engineering Manager	Alex Ives
Backend Engineering	Alex Ives   Backend Engineer   Jon Jenkins   Krasimir Angelov   Leonardo da Rosa   Matt Kasa   Maxime Orefice   Prabakaran Murugesan   Simon Tomlinson
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Ben Prescott
Application Security Engineer	Kevin Morrison
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Database		Direction Page

Global Search group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	8	1

Slack Channel	#g_global_search
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/search-team
Handbook Page
Focus	Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Ben Venker
Development	Changzheng Liu
Backend Engineering	Arturo Herrero   Changzheng Liu   Dmitry Gruzd   John Mason   Madelein van Niekerk   Ravi Kumar   Siddharth Dungarwal   Terri Chu
Frontend Engineering	Tomáš Bulva
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Brenda Nyaringita   Cleveland Bledsoe Jr
Technical Writing	Ashraf Khamis
Application Security Engineer	Kevin Morrison
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

Tenant Scale group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	8	1

Slack Channel	#g_tenant-scale
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/tenant-scale-group
Handbook Page
Focus	Database PPI
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Christina Lohr
Backend Engineering Manager	Sissi Yao
Backend Engineering	Abdul Wadood   Alex Pooley   Dylan Griffith   Kamil Trzciński   Omar Qunsul   Rutger Wessels   Sissi Yao   Thong Kuah
Frontend Engineering	Peter Hegman
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Product Designer	Mike Nichols
Support	Bruno Freitas   Asmaa Hassan Ahmed Ali   Ben Prescott
Technical Writing	Lorena Ciutacu
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Uday Govindia
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department

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

Foundations stage

Slack Channel	#s_manage
Development	Michelle Gill
Test Platform	Nivetha Prabakaran
Product Design	Chris Micek

Design System group

	Frontend
Development Totals	4

Slack Channel	#g_pajamas-design-system
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/manage
Focus	Driving Pajamas adoption
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Jeff Tucker
Development	Sam Beckham
Frontend Engineering	James Rushford   Staff Frontend Engineer   Scott de Jonge   Vanessa Otto
Product Design	Chris Micek
Product Designer	Ian Gloude   Dan Mizzi-Harris   Jeremy Elder
Application Security Engineer	Greg Alfaro
Internal Customers	Alliances Department Customer Success Quality Department Infrastructure Department Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Pajamas Design System		Documentation Page Direction Page

Import and Integrate group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	7	2

Slack Channel	#g_manage_import_and_integrate
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/manage/import-and-integrate
Focus	Manage Import and Integrate GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Magdalena Frankiewicz
Development	Martin Wortschack
Backend Engineering	Carla Drago   Senior Backend Engineer   James Nutt   Keeyan Nejad   Luke Duncalfe   Rodrigo Tomonari   Sam Word
Frontend Engineering	Justin Ho   Oiza Baiye
Support	Anton Smith   Olivier Némoz Saint-Dizier
Technical Writing	Ashraf Khamis
Application Security Engineer	Ameya Darshan
Internal Customers	Alliances Department Morgan Joscelyn Customer Success Quality Department Infrastructure Department Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
API		Documentation Page Direction Page
Integrations	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Webhooks		Documentation Page Direction Page
Importers		Documentation Page Direction Page
Internationalization		Documentation Page Direction Page

Personal Productivity group

	Frontend
Development Totals	3

Slack Channel	#g_personal_productivity
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/foundations/personal-productivity
Focus	Driving Pajamas adoption
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Jeff Tucker
Development	Sam Beckham
Frontend Engineering	Lukas Eipert   Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt   Thomas Hutterer
Product Design	Jacki Bauer
UX Research	Thaina Tavares
Product Designer	Amelia Bauerly   Austin Regnery
Technical Writing	Suzanne Selhorn
Application Security Engineer	Greg Alfaro
Internal Customers	Alliances Department Customer Success Quality Department Infrastructure Department Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Navigation		Direction Page
Settings		Direction Page
Notifications		Documentation Page Direction Page

UX Paper Cuts group

Slack Channel	#g_ux_paper_cuts
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features

Systems stage

Slack Channel	#s_core_platform
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/core-platform-section
Handbook Page	Core Platform Sub-department
Test Platform	Vishal Patel

Cloud Connector group

	Backend
Development Totals	4

Slack Channel	#g_cloud_connector
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/cloud-connector-team
Handbook Page	Cloud Connector Group
Focus	Cloud Connector PPI
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sacha Guyon
Backend Engineering Manager	Paul John Phillips
Backend Engineering	Aleksei Lipniagov   Matthias Käppler   Nikola Milojevic   Roy Zwambag
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Gabriel Yoachum
Technical Writing	Jon Glassman
Application Security Engineer	Kevin Morrison
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Cloud Connector		Direction Page

Distribution::Build group

	Backend
Development Totals	8

Slack Channel	#g_distribution
Slack Alias	distributionteam
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/distribution
Handbook Page	Distribution
Focus	Distribution PPI
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Dilan Orrino
Backend Engineering Manager	Peter Lu
Backend Engineering	Andrew Patterson   Alec Xu   Balasankar 'Balu' C   Dmitry Makovey   Dustin Collins   Pratik Singh   Ryan Egesdahl   Robert Marshall
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Technical Writing	Evan Read   Achilleas Pipinellis
Application Security Engineer	Kevin Morrison
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department Customer Success Product Security Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Build	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Distribution::Deploy group

	Backend
Development Totals	7

Slack Channel	#g_distribution
Slack Alias	distributionteam
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/distribution
Handbook Page	Distribution
Focus	Distribution PPI
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Dilan Orrino
Backend Engineering Manager	Peter Lu
Backend Engineering	Clemens Beck   Hossein Pursultani   Jason Plum   João Alexandre Prado Tavares Cunha   Jon Doveston   Lucas Li   Peter Lu
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Priyan Sureshbabu
Technical Writing	Evan Read   Achilleas Pipinellis
Application Security Engineer	Kevin Morrison
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

Geo group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	6	1

Slack Channel	#g_geo
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/geo-team
Handbook Page	Geo and Disaster Recovery
Focus	Geo Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sampath Ranasinghe
Development	Lucie Zhao
Backend Engineering	Aakriti Gupta   Douglas Barbosa Alexandre   Gabriel Mazetto   Ian Baum   Kyle Yetter   Michael Kozono
Frontend Engineering	Zack Cuddy
Test Platform	Nick Westbury
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Mario Mora   Łukasz Korbasiewicz   Bo Carbonell
Technical Writing	Achilleas Pipinellis
Application Security Engineer	Ameya Darshan
Internal Customers	Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Geo-replication	Viable	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

	Backend
Development Totals	5

Slack Channel	#g_git
Handbook Page
Focus	Driving Git adoption
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Mark Wood
Backend Engineering Manager	John Cai
Backend Engineering	Christian Couder   Justin Tobler   Karthik Nayak   Patrick Steinhardt   Toon Claes
Support	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::Cluster group

	Backend
Development Totals	2

Slack Channel	#g_gitaly
Handbook Page
Focus	Gitaly GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Mark Wood
Backend Engineering Manager	Andras Horvath
Backend Engineering	Ahmad Sherif   Andras Horvath
Test Platform	John McDonnell
Support	David Wainaina   Gerardo Gutierrez
Technical Writing	Evan Read
Application Security Engineer	Greg Myers
Customer Success	Conley Rogers   Simon Mansfield
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Gitaly		Documentation Page Direction Page

Data Science section

Product	Taylor McCaslin   Hillary Benson
Development	Tim Zallmann
Product Design	Jacki Bauer
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Product Marketing	Laurena Quinteiro Alves
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Tiffany Chen

graph TD;

  
    data-science[Data Science section]-->s_ai-powered[AI-powered stage];

    
        s_ai-powered-->g_ai_framework["AI Framework
        group"];
        click g_ai_framework "/handbook/product/categories/#ai-framework-group";
    
        s_ai-powered-->g_ai_model_validation["AI Model Validation
        group"];
        click g_ai_model_validation "/handbook/product/categories/#ai-model-validation-group";
    
        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_duo_workflow["Duo Workflow
        group"];
        click g_duo_workflow "/handbook/product/categories/#duo-workflow";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    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";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Click on a group name to see more details.

AI-powered stage

Slack Channel	#s_ai-powered
Handbook Page	Data Science
Product	Taylor McCaslin
Development	Michelle Gill
Product Design	Jacki Bauer
Product Marketing	Laurena Quinteiro Alves

AI Framework group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	8	2

Slack Channel	#g_ai_framework
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Pini Wietchner
Development	David O'Regan
Backend Engineering	Alexander Chueshev   Alejandro Rodríguez   Halil Coban   Backend Engineer   Małgorzata Ksionek   Michael Thomas   Nathan Weinshenker   Surabhi Suman
Frontend Engineering	Andrew Fontaine   Lindsey Shelton
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Product Designer	Emily Bauman   Katie Macoy
Product Marketing	Laurena Quinteiro Alves
Support	John Gaughan
Technical Writing	Fiona Neill   Jon Glassman   Suzanne Selhorn
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Paulo Martins

Name	Maturity	Links
AI Abstraction Layer	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

AI Model Validation group

	Backend
Development Totals	4

Slack Channel	#g_ai_model_validation
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Susie Bitters
Development	Michelle Gill
Backend Engineering	Andras Herczeg   Hongtao Yang   Stephan Rayner   Tan Le
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Product Marketing	Laurena Quinteiro Alves
Technical Writing	Fiona Neill   Jon Glassman   Suzanne Selhorn
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Paulo Martins

Name	Maturity	Links
AI Evaluation	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
AI Research	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Custom Models group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	6	1

Slack Channel	#g_custom_models
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Susie Bitters
Development	Sean Carroll
Backend Engineering	Bruno Cardoso   Eduardo Bonet   Igor Drozdov   Patrick Cyiza   Manoj Memana Jayakumar   Mohamed Hamda
Frontend Engineering	Julie Huang
Product Designer	Timothy Noah
Technical Writing	Fiona Neill   Jon Glassman   Suzanne Selhorn
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Paulo Martins

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

Duo Chat group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	6	1

Slack Channel	#g_duo_chat
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Torsten Linz
Development	Juan Silva
Backend Engineering	Dillon Wheeler   Eva Kadlecová   Lesley Razzaghian   Mark Chao   Shinya Maeda   Tetiana Chupryna
Frontend Engineering	Jannik Lehmann
Product Marketing	Laurena Quinteiro Alves
Support	Duncan Harris
Technical Writing	Fiona Neill   Jon Glassman   Suzanne Selhorn
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Paulo Martins

Name	Maturity	Links
Duo Chat	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Duo Workflow group

Slack Channel	#g_duo_workflow
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Pini Wietchner
Development	Sebastian Rehm
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Product Designer	Pedro Moreira da Silva
Product Marketing	Laurena Quinteiro Alves
Support	John Gaughan
Technical Writing	Fiona Neill   Jon Glassman   Suzanne Selhorn
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Paulo Martins

Name	Maturity	Links
Duo Workflow	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

ModelOps stage

Slack Channel	#s_modelops
Handbook Page	Data Science
Product	Taylor McCaslin
Development	Sean Carroll
Product Design	Jacki Bauer

DataOps group

Slack Channel	#s_modelops
Features in this Group	Features
Development	Sean Carroll
Product Marketing	Laurena Quinteiro Alves
Technical Writing	Fiona Neill   Jon Glassman   Suzanne Selhorn
Application Security Engineer	Kevin Morrison

Name	Maturity	Links
DataOps	Planned 2025	Direction Page

MLOps group

	Backend
Development Totals	2

Slack Channel	#g_mlops
Features in this Group	Features
Development	Sean Carroll
Backend Engineering	Alper Akgun   Fred de Gier
Product Designer	Graham Bachelder
Product Marketing	Laurena Quinteiro Alves
Technical Writing	Fiona Neill   Jon Glassman   Suzanne Selhorn
Application Security Engineer	Kevin Morrison

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

Dev section

Product	Steve Evangelista
Development	Tim Zallmann
Product Design	Marcel van Remmerden   Taurie Davis
UX Research	Ben Leduc-Mills   Danika Teverovsky
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Iris Gorman

graph TD;

  

  

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

    
        s_create-->g_code_creation["Code Creation
        group"];
        click g_code_creation "/handbook/product/categories/#code-suggestions";
    
        s_create-->g_code_review["Code Review
        group"];
        click g_code_review "/handbook/product/categories/#code-review-group";
    
        s_create-->g_editor_extensions["Editor Extensions
        group"];
        click g_editor_extensions "/handbook/product/categories/#editor-extensions";
    
        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_optimize["Optimize
        group"];
        click g_optimize "/handbook/product/categories/#value-stream-management-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";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Click on a group name to see more details.

Create stage

Slack Channel	#s_create
Product	Derek Ferguson
Development	Darva Satcher
Test Platform	Jay McCure
Product Design	Andy Volpe

Code Creation group

	Backend
Development Totals	11

Slack Channel	#g_code_creation
Handbook Page	Create:Code Creation Group
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Jordan Janes
Backend Engineering Manager	Matt Nohr
Backend Engineering	Allen Cook   Backend Engineer   Jan Provaznik   Leaminn Ma   Mikołaj Wawrzyniak   Missy Davies   Pam Artiaga   Shola Quadri   Sri Rangan   Tian Gao   Vitali Tatarintev
Support	John Gaughan
Technical Writing	Jon Glassman

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

Code Review group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	5	4

Slack Channel	#g_create_code-review
Handbook Page	Create:Code Review Group
Focus	Create Code Review GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Kai Armstrong
Backend Engineering Manager	François Rosé
Backend Engineering	Sincheol (David) Kim   Gary Holtz   Kerri Miller   Marc Shaw   Patrick Bajao
Frontend Engineering Manager	André Luís
Frontend Engineering	André Luís   Phil Hughes   Stanislav Lashmanov   Thomas Randolph
UX Research	Ben Leduc-Mills
Product Designer	Michael Le
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Support	Ben King
Technical Writing	Amy Qualls
Application Security Engineer	Greg Alfaro
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

Editor Extensions group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	7	5

Slack Channel	#g_editor-extensions
Handbook Page	Create:Editor Extensions Group
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Dasha Adushkina
Development	Kisha Mavryck Richardson
Backend Engineering	Anna Springfield   Dylan Bernardi   Erran Carey   John Slaughter   Karl Jamoralin   Laura Ionel   Marvin Gay
Frontend Engineering	Andrei Zubov   Elwyn Benson   Olena HK.   Tomas Vik   Tristan Read
UX Research	Ben Leduc-Mills
Technical Writing	Amy Qualls

Name	Maturity	Links
Editor Extensions	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Remote Development group

	Frontend
Development Totals	2

Slack Channel	#g_create_ide
Handbook Page	Create:Remote Development Group
Focus	Create Remote Development GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Michelle Chen
Development	Adebayo Adesanya
Frontend Engineering	Enrique Alcántara   Paul Slaughter
Test Platform	Nivetha Prabakaran
UX Research	Ben Leduc-Mills
Product Designer	Taylor Vanderhelm
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Support	Chris Stone
Technical Writing	Ashraf Khamis
Application Security Engineer	Greg Alfaro
Internal Customers	Marketing Department Engineering Department Finance Department People Operations Product Department Product Security Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Web IDE	Competitive	Documentation Page Direction Page
Workspaces	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Source Code group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	9	4

Slack Channel	#g_create_source-code
Handbook Page	Create:Source Code BE Team
Focus	Create Source Code GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Marie-Christine Babin
Backend Engineering Manager	Devi Poosarla
Backend Engineering	Emma Park   Fred Reinink   Gavin Hinfey   Hunter Stewart   Jerry Seto   Javiera Tapia   Joe Woodward   Olaoluwa Oluro   Vasilii Iakliushin
Frontend Engineering Manager	André Luís
Frontend Engineering	André Luís   Jacques Erasmus   Chaoyue Zhao   Paulina Sedlak-Jakubowska
UX Research	Ben Leduc-Mills
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	Melissa Ushakov
Development	John Hope
Test Platform	Désirée Chevalier
Product Design	Caitlin Steele

Knowledge group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	4	1

Slack Channel	#g_knowledge
Handbook Page
Focus	Plan Knowledge Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Matthew Macfarlane
Development	Vladimir Shushlin
Backend Engineering	Brett Walker   Janis Altherr   Naman Jagdish Gala   Piotr Skorupa
Frontend Engineering	Himanshu Kapoor
UX Research	Danika Teverovsky
Product Designer	Alex Fracazo
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Technical Writing	Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski
Application Security Engineer	Costel Maxim
Customer Success	Simon Mansfield
Internal Customers	Technical Writing Susan Tacker

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

Optimize group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	2	3

Slack Channel	#g_plan_optimize
Focus	Plan Optimize GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Haim Snir
Development	Brandon Labuschagne
Backend Engineering	Felipe Artur   Pavel Shutsin
Frontend Engineering	Alex Pennells   Ezekiel Kigbo   Rudy Crespo
Product Design	Justin Mandell
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

Product Planning group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	4	4

Slack Channel	#g_product-planning
Focus	Plan Product Planning Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Amanda Rueda
Development	Kushal Pandya
Backend Engineering	Abhilash Kotte   Eugenia Grieff   Kassio Borges   Nicolas Dular
Frontend Engineering	Anastasia Khomchenko   Florie Guibert   Jack Chapman   Rajan Mistry
UX Research	Danika Teverovsky
Product Designer	Nick Brandt
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Technical Writing	Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
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

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	5	5

Slack Channel	#g_project-management
Handbook Page	Plan:Project Management
Focus	Plan Project Management Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Gabe Weaver
Development	Donald Cook
Backend Engineering	Alexandru Croitor   Heinrich Lee Yu   Mario Celi   Marc Saleiko   Stefanos Xanthopoulos
Frontend Engineering	Senior Frontend Engineer   Deepika Guliani   Marc Saleiko   Natalia Tepluhina   Simon Knox
UX Research	Danika Teverovsky
Product Designer	Nick Leonard
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Support	Ben Prescott
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

Fulfillment section

Product	Omar Fernandez
Development	Jerome Ng
Product Design	Taurie Davis
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Infrastructure Manager	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_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";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Click on a group name to see more details.

Fulfillment stage

Slack Channel	#s_fulfillment
Product	Omar Fernandez
Development	Jerome Ng
Test Platform	Valerie Burton   Richard Chong
Product Design	Emily Sybrant
UX Research	Anne Lasch   Nick Hertz

Fulfillment Platform group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	6	1

Slack Channel	#g_fulfillment_platform
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Priyanka Palanikumar
Development	James Lopez
Backend Engineering	Aishwarya Subramanian   Etienne Baqué   Shreyas Agarwal   Tarun Vellishetty   Tyler Amos   Vladlena Shumilo
Frontend Engineering	Tarun Vellishetty
Product Designer	Lina Fowler   Timothy Noah
Support	Tom McAtee
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund

Name	Maturity	Links
Fulfillment Infradev	Viable	Direction Page
CustomersDot and quote to cash integrations	Viable	Direction Page
Fulfillment Internal Admin Tooling	Minimal	Direction Page

Provision group

	Backend
Development Totals	4

Slack Channel	#g_provision
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Courtney Meddaugh
Development	Ragnar Hardarson
Backend Engineering	Bishwa Hang Rai   Corinna Gogolok   Paulo Barros   Qingyu Zhao
Product Designer	Lina Fowler   Timothy Noah
Support	Keven Hughes
Technical Writing	Fiona Neill
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni

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

Subscription Management group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	3	4

Slack Channel	#g_subscription_management
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Tatyana Golubeva
Development	Ragnar Hardarson
Backend Engineering	Aman Luthra   Josianne Hyson   Ryan Cobb
Frontend Engineering	Diana Zubova   Michael Lunøe   Sharmad Nachnolkar   Vamsi Vempati
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Product Designer	Lina Fowler   Timothy Noah
Support	Firdaws Farukh
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund

Name	Maturity	Links
Subscription Management	Viable	Direction Page

Utilization group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	3	4

Slack Channel	#g_utilization
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Alexandra Martin
Development	James Lopez
Backend Engineering	Jason Goodman   Suraj Tripathi   Vijay Hawoldar
Frontend Engineering	Ammar Alakkad   Angelo Gulina   Kos Palchyk   Sheldon Led
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Product Designer	Lina Fowler   Timothy Noah
Support	Shem Gyll
Technical Writing	Fiona Neill
Application Security Engineer	Nikhil George

Name	Maturity	Links
Consumables Cost Management	Viable	Direction Page
Seat Cost Management	Viable	Direction Page

Growth section

Infrastructure Manager	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>";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Click on a group name to see more details.

Growth stage

Slack Channel	#s_growth
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/growth
Handbook Page
Development	Kamil Niechajewicz
Internal Customers	Sales Department Marketing Department Product Department Finance Department

Acquisition group

	Backend
Development Totals	6

Slack Channel	#g_acquisition
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Gayle Doud
Development	Kamil Niechajewicz
Backend Engineering	Buck O'Leary   David Hamp-Gonsalves   Doug Stull   Jay Montal   Roy Liu   Serhii Yarynovskyi
Application Security Engineer	Nikhil George

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
Development	Kamil Niechajewicz
Application Security Engineer	Nikhil George

Name	Maturity	Links
Activation		Direction Page

SaaS Platforms section

Product	Fabian Zimmer
Development	Marin Jankovski
Product Design	Marcel van Remmerden
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Infrastructure Manager	Dave Smith
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Iris Gorman

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    platforms[SaaS Platforms section]-->s_platforms[SaaS Platforms stage];

    
        s_platforms-->g_cells_infrastructure["Cells Infrastructure
        group"];
        click g_cells_infrastructure "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_platforms-->g_dedicated["GitLab Dedicated
        group"];
        click g_dedicated "/handbook/product/categories/#gitlab-dedicated-group";
    
        s_platforms-->g_delivery["Delivery
        group"];
        click g_delivery "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_platforms-->g_pubsec_services["US Public Sector Services
        group"];
        click g_pubsec_services "/handbook/product/categories/#us-public-sector-services-group";
    
        s_platforms-->g_scalability["Scalability
        group"];
        click g_scalability "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_platforms-->g_switchboard["Switchboard
        group"];
        click g_switchboard "/handbook/product/categories/#switchboard";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

Click on a group name to see more details.

SaaS Platforms stage

Slack Channel	#s_platforms
GitLab Group	@gitlab-com/gl-infra/platform
Handbook Page	Development
Test Platform	Brittany Wilkerson
Product Design	Rayana Verissimo

Cells Infrastructure group

Slack Channel	#g_cells_infrastructure
Focus	Cells
Features in this Group	Features
Backend Engineering Manager	Nick Nguyen
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Uday Govindia

Name	Maturity	Links
Cell		Direction Page

GitLab Dedicated group

Slack Channel	#f_gitlab_dedicated
GitLab Group	@TBD
Handbook Page	GitLab Dedicated Group
Focus	GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Chris Balane
Backend Engineering Manager	Oriol Lluch
Product Design	Rayana Verissimo
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Wei-Meng Lee   Wade Jenkins   Daphne Kua   Brie Carranza   Armin Hergenhan
Technical Writing	Lysanne Pinto
Application Security Engineer	Greg Alfaro
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Dhruv Jain
Customer Success	Zane J Chua

Name	Maturity	Links
GitLab Dedicated		Documentation Page Direction Page

Delivery group

Slack Channel	#g_delivery
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/delivery
Handbook Page	Delivery Group
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sam Wiskow
Development	Michele Bursi
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Application Security Engineer	Ameya Darshan

Name	Maturity	Links
Delivery		Documentation Page Direction Page

US Public Sector Services group

Slack Channel	#TBD
Slack Alias	TBD
GitLab Group	@TBD
Focus	GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Backend Engineering Manager	Amy Phillips
Test Platform	Jim Baumgardner
Support	Wade Jenkins
Application Security Engineer	Greg Myers

Name	Maturity	Links
US Public Sector Services		Documentation Page Direction Page

Scalability group

Slack Channel	#g_scalability
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/scalability
Handbook Page	Scalability Group
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sam Wiskow
Development	Rachel Nienaber
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni

Name	Maturity	Links
Scalability		Documentation Page Direction Page
Error Budgets		Documentation Page Direction Page
Infrastructure Cost Data		Direction Page
Capacity Planning		Documentation Page Direction Page
Redis		Direction Page
Rate Limiting Framework		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
Backend Engineering Manager	Amy Shiel
Product Design	Rayana Verissimo
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Product Designer	Divya Alagarsamy
Support	Armin Hergenhan
Technical Writing	Lysanne Pinto
Application Security Engineer	Greg Alfaro
Customer Success	Zane J Chua

Name	Maturity	Links
Switchboard		Documentation Page Direction Page

Sec section

Product	Hillary Benson
Product Design	Taurie Davis
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/#threat-insights-group";
    
        s_security_risk_management-->g_security_insights["Threat Insights
        group"];
        click g_security_insights "/handbook/product/categories/#threat-insights-group";
    
        s_security_risk_management-->g_security_platform_management["Security Platform Management
        group"];
        click g_security_platform_management "/handbook/product/categories/#threat-insights-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/product/categories/#anti-abuse-group";
    
        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_secure
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/secure
Handbook Page	Secure Sub-Department
Product	Sarah Waldner
Development	Thomas Woodham
Test Platform	Will Meek
Product Design	Justin Mandell

Composition Analysis group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	15	1

Slack Channel	#g_secure-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	John Crowley
Backend Engineering	Aditya Tiwari   Fabien Catteau   Oscar Tovar   Igor Frenkel   Joey Khabie   Miki Amos   Nick Ilieskou   Olivier Gonzalez   Orin Naaman   Philip Cunningham   Shao Ming Tan   Tal Kopel   Thiago Figueiró   Yasha Rise   Zamir Martins Filho
Frontend Engineering	Fernando Cardenas
Fullstack Engineering Manager	Thiago Figueiró   Tal Kopel
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Technical Writing	Phillip Wells   Russell Dickenson
Application Security Engineer	Nikhil George
Customer Success	Bryan Miller   Brian Wald   Sam Morris
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Nikhil George Engineering Department

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

Dynamic Analysis group

	Backend
Development Totals	4

Slack Channel	#g_secure-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	John Crowley
Development	Mike Eddington
Backend Engineering	Alexander Dietrich   Arpit Gogia   David Nelson   Mike Eddington
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Support	Kate Grechishkina
Technical Writing	Phillip Wells   Russell Dickenson
Application Security Engineer	Nikhil George
Customer Success	Bryan Miller   Brian Wald   Sam Morris
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Nikhil George 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

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	6	2

Slack Channel	#g_secure-secret-detection
Slack Alias	secure_secret_detection_team
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/secure/secret-detection
Focus	Secret Detection Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Alana Bellucci
Backend Engineering Manager	Amar Patel
Backend Engineering	Ahmed Hemdan   Ethan Urie   Radu Birsan   Ross Fuhrman   Serena Fang   Vishwa Bhat
Frontend Engineering	Dheeraj Joshi   Radu Birsan
Product Designer	Michael Fangman
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Technical Writing	Russell Dickenson
Application Security Engineer	Nikhil George
Customer Success	Bryan Miller   Brian Wald   Sam Morris
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Nikhil George Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Secret Detection	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Static Analysis group

	Backend
Development Totals	13

Slack Channel	#g_secure-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	Connor Gilbert
Backend Engineering Manager	Tal Kopel
Backend Engineering	Adam Cohen   Craig Smith   Daniel Abeles   Gal Katz   Hua Yan   Jason Leasure   Julian Thome   Meir Benayoun   Mher Tolpin   Or Gal   Senior Manager, Software Engineering   Schmil Monderer   Senior Backend Engineer
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Support	Christopher Chewa Mutua
Technical Writing	Phillip Wells   Russell Dickenson
Application Security Engineer	Nikhil George
Customer Success	Bryan Miller   Brian Wald   Sam Morris
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Nikhil George Engineering Department

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

Vulnerability Research group

	Backend
Development Totals	3

Slack Channel	#g_secure-vulnerability-research
Focus	Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sarah Waldner
Backend Engineering Manager	Thomas Woodham
Backend Engineering	Dinesh Bolkensteyn   Isaac Dawson   Michael Henriksen
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Support	Mario Mora
Application Security Engineer	Nikhil George
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Dennis Appelt Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
GitLab Advisory Database		Direction Page

Security Risk Management stage

Slack Channel	#s_security_risk_management
Test Platform	Harsha Muralidhar
Product Design	Justin Mandell

Security Infrastructure group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	8	4

Slack Channel	#g_govern_threat_insights
Focus	Threat Insights Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Backend Engineering	Bala Kumar Subramani   Brian Williams   Gregory Havenga   Mehmet Emin Inac   Michał Zając   Rushik Subba   Subashis Chakraborty   Michael Becker
Frontend Engineering	Dave Pisek   Lorenz van Herwaarden   Samantha Ming   Savas Vedova
Fullstack Engineering Manager	Neil McCorrison
Product Designer	Becka Lippert
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Support	Gerardo Gutierrez
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
Customer Success	Mirko Brandner   Yu-Chen Hsueh
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Greg Myers

Threat Insights group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	8	4

Slack Channel	#g_govern_threat_insights
Focus	Threat Insights Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Backend Engineering	Bala Kumar Subramani   Brian Williams   Gregory Havenga   Mehmet Emin Inac   Michał Zając   Rushik Subba   Subashis Chakraborty   Michael Becker
Frontend Engineering	Dave Pisek   Lorenz van Herwaarden   Samantha Ming   Savas Vedova
Fullstack Engineering Manager	Neil McCorrison
Product Designer	Becka Lippert
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Support	Gerardo Gutierrez
Technical Writing	Russell Dickenson
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
Customer Success	Mirko Brandner   Yu-Chen Hsueh
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Greg Myers

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

Security Platform Management group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	8	4

Slack Channel	#g_govern_threat_insights
Focus	Threat Insights Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Backend Engineering	Bala Kumar Subramani   Brian Williams   Gregory Havenga   Mehmet Emin Inac   Michał Zając   Rushik Subba   Subashis Chakraborty   Michael Becker
Frontend Engineering	Dave Pisek   Lorenz van Herwaarden   Samantha Ming   Savas Vedova
Fullstack Engineering Manager	Neil McCorrison
Product Designer	Becka Lippert
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Support	Gerardo Gutierrez
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
Customer Success	Mirko Brandner   Yu-Chen Hsueh
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Greg Myers

Security Policies group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	5	3

Slack Channel	#g_govern_security_policies
Focus	Security Policies Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Grant Hickman
Development	Alan (Maciej) Paruszewski
Backend Engineering	Andy Schoenen   Dominic Bauer   Marcos Rocha   Martin Cavoj   Sashi Kumar Kumaresan
Frontend Engineering	Alexander Turinske   Artur Fedorov   Martin Cavoj
Product Designer	Camellia X. Yang
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Support	Ulises Fierro
Technical Writing	Ryan Lehmann
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
Customer Success	Mirko Brandner   Yu-Chen Hsueh
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Dominic Couture 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_govern
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/govern
Handbook Page	Govern Sub-department
Product	Sam White
Development	Thomas Woodham   Jerome Ng
Test Platform	Harsha Muralidhar
Product Design	Justin Mandell

Anti-Abuse group

	Backend
Development Totals	1

Slack Channel	#g_govern_anti-abuse
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Joe Randazzo
Development	Jay Swain
Backend Engineering	Eugie Limpin
Support	Michael Gibson
Application Security Engineer	Greg Myers
Internal Customers	Security Operations Department Shawn Sichak

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

Authentication group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	6	1

Slack Channel	#g_software_supply_chain_security_authentication
Focus	Software Supply Chain Security Authentication Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Hannah Sutor
Development	Adil Farrukh
Backend Engineering	Andrew Evans   Bogdan Denkovych   Drew Blessing   Imre Farkas   Smriti Garg   Aboobacker MK
Frontend Engineering	Eduardo Sanz-Garcia
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Support	Jio Castillo   Alvin Gounder
Technical Writing	Jon Glassman
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni
Internal Customers	Customer Support Department Product Security Department Rohit Shambhuni Corporate Security Department Jeff Martin Infrastructure Department

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

Authorization group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	5	1

Slack Channel	#g_govern_authorization
Focus	Govern Authorization Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Joe Randazzo
Development	Jay Swain
Backend Engineering	Ayush Billore   Alex Buijs   Hinam Mehra   Jarka Košanová   Mo Khan
Frontend Engineering	Daniel Tian
Product Designer	Ilonah Pelaez
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Technical Writing	Ryan Lehmann
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni
Customer Success	Mirko Brandner   Yu-Chen Hsueh
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Rohit Shambhuni Corporate Security Department Jeff Martin

Name	Maturity	Links
Permissions	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Compliance group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	5	3

Slack Channel	#g_sscs_compliance
Focus	Software Supply Chain Security Compliance Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Ian Khor
Development	Nathan Rosandich
Backend Engineering	Andrew Jung   Harsimar Sandhu   Hitesh Raghuvanshi   Huzaifa Iftikhar   Sam Figueroa
Frontend Engineering	Illya Klymov   Nataliia Radina   Sam Figueroa
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Technical Writing	Evan Read
Application Security Engineer	Kevin Morrison
Internal Customers	Customer Support Department Product Security Department Dominic Couture 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
Software Supply Chain Security	Viable	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page

Pipeline Security group

	Backend	Frontend
Development Totals	4	2

Slack Channel	#g_pipeline-security
Focus	Pipeline Security Sum of AMAUs
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Jocelyn Eillis
Development	Scott Hampton
Backend Engineering	Alex Scheel   Dmytro Biryukov   Erick Bajao   Shabini Rajadas
Frontend Engineering	Miranda Fluharty   Mireya Andres
Product Designer	Bonnie Tsang
Support	Nilanka De Silva   Paul Murray   Manuel Grabowski
Technical Writing	Marcel Amirault
Internal Customers	Quality Department UX Department Infrastructure Department AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group Product Security Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Secure Artifacts	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
Secrets Management	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Single-Engineer Groups section

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    seg[Single-Engineer Groups section]-->s_mobile[Mobile stage];

    
        s_mobile-->g_mobile_devops["Mobile DevOps
        group"];
        click g_mobile_devops "/handbook/product/categories/#mobile-devops-group";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Click on a group name to see more details.

Mobile stage

Slack Channel	#s_mobile
Product	Darren Eastman

Mobile DevOps group

Slack Channel	#mobile-devops
Features in this Group	Features

Name	Maturity	Links
Mobile DevOps		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 (excluding real-time collaboration)

Knowlege group

Knowlege 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 Monitor stage

Monitor stage

Other functionality in Manage stage

Manage stage

Other functionality in Engineering Productivity

Engineering Productivity

• GDK

Other functionality in Test Platform

Test Platform

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

Internal Customers: Gitaly, Core Platform section, 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 Model Validation
AI Research ai_research	AI Model Validation
API api	Import and Integrate
API Security api_security	Dynamic Analysis
Application Instrumentation application_instrumentation	Analytics Instrumentation
Attack Emulation attack_emulation	Dynamic Analysis
Audit Events audit_events	Compliance
Auto DevOps auto_devops	Environments
Backup/Restore of GitLab instances backup_restore	Geo
Build build	Distribution::Build
Capacity Planning capacity_planning	Scalability
Cell cell	Cells Infrastructure
Continuous Integration (CI) Scaling ci_scaling	CI Platform
Variables ci_variables	Pipeline Authoring
Cloud Connector cloud_connector	Cloud Connector
Cloud Native Installation cloud_native_installation	Distribution::Deploy
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
DataOps dataops	DataOps
GitLab Dedicated dedicated	GitLab Dedicated
Delivery delivery	Delivery
Dependency Firewall dependency_firewall	Container Registry
Dependency Management dependency_management	Threat Insights
Deployment Management deployment_management	Environments
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 Chat duo_chat	Duo Chat
Duo Workflow duo_workflow	Duo Workflow
DAST dynamic_application_security_testing	Dynamic Analysis
Editor Extensions editor_extensions	Editor Extensions
Environment Management environment_management	Environments
Error Budgets error_budgets	Scalability
Feature Flags feature_flags	Environments
Fleet Visibility fleet_visibility	Runner
Fulfillment Infradev fulfillment_infradev	Fulfillment Platform
Fulfillment Internal Admin Tooling fulfillment_internal_admin_tooling	Fulfillment Platform
Fuzz Testing fuzz_testing	Dynamic Analysis
Geo-replication geo_replication	Geo
Git git	Git
Gitaly gitaly	Gitaly::Cluster
GitLab CLI gitlab_cli	Code Review
GitLab Documentation Site gitlab_docs
Global Search global_search	Global Search
Groups & Projects groups_and_projects	Tenant Scale
Helm Chart Registry helm_chart_registry	Package Registry
GitLab Hosted Runners hosted_runners	Hosted Runners
Importers importers	Import and Integrate
Incident Management incident_management	Platform Insights
Infrastructure as Code infrastructure_as_code	Environments
Infrastructure Cost Data infrastructure_cost_data	Scalability
Insider Threat insider_threat	Anti-Abuse
Instance Resiliency instance_resiliency	Anti-Abuse
Integrations integrations	Import and Integrate
Internationalization internationalization	Import and Integrate
Job Artifacts job_artifacts	Pipeline Execution
Markdown markdown	Knowledge
Merge Trains merge_trains	Pipeline Execution
MLOps mlops	MLOps
Mobile DevOps mobile_devops	Mobile DevOps
Model Personalization model_personalization	Custom Models
Navigation navigation	Personal Productivity
Notifications notifications	Personal Productivity
Observability observability	Platform Insights
OKR Management okr_management	Product Planning
Omnibus Package omnibus_package	Distribution::Deploy
On-call Schedule Management on_call_schedule_management	Platform Insights
Onboarding onboarding	Acquisition
Organization organization	Tenant Scale
Package Registry package_registry	Package Registry
Pages pages	Knowledge
Permissions permissions	Authorization
Pipeline Composition pipeline_composition	Pipeline Authoring
Pipeline Reports pipeline_reports	Pipeline Execution
Plan Provisioning plan_provisioning	Provision
Portfolio Management portfolio_management	Product Planning
Product Analytics product_analytics	Platform Insights
US Public Sector Services pubsec_services	US Public Sector Services
Quality Management quality_management	Product Planning
Rate Limiting Framework rate_limiting	Scalability
Redis redis	Scalability
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	Runner
Scalability scalability	Scalability
Seat Cost Management seat_cost_management	Utilization
Secret Detection secret_detection	Secret Detection
Secrets Management secrets_management	Pipeline Security
Secure Artifacts secure_artifacts	Pipeline Security
Security Policy Management security_policy_management	Security Policies
Self-Hosted Models self-hosted_models	Custom Models
Service Desk service_desk	Project Management
Service Ping service_ping	Analytics Instrumentation
Settings settings	Personal Productivity
Software Composition Analysis software_composition_analysis	Composition Analysis
Source Code Management source_code_management	Source Code
Software Supply Chain Security sscs	Compliance
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	Authentication
User Profile user_profile	Tenant Scale
Value Stream Management value_stream_management	Optimize
Virtual Registry virtual_registry	Container Registry
Vulnerability Management vulnerability_management	Threat Insights
Web IDE web_ide	Remote Development
Webhooks webhooks	Import and Integrate
Wiki wiki	Knowledge
Workspaces workspaces	Remote Development