Manage Direction Reviews and Updates: May
Overview
We should regularly ensure our category and stage visions are accurate and up to date, following the most up-to-date guidance in the handbook about managing your product direction.
This month, I'd like to do a review of each group's category direction and also have a review session on the Manage direction page I'm currently working on (WIP MR).
TODO
🔭 Update Group Categories
- Consider whether you can separate out controversial and non-controversial updates to focus discussion and feedback on specific changes
- Look at your page in the review app to make sure that it looks like you expect and you don't have markdown errors
- Run a spell check and/or grammar checker
- Open all your links and make sure none go to issues you've already delivered/moved or are otherwise dead links
- Review and update the entire document, not just the what's next section
Please check your name off when you've reviewed your group's category direction pages (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/categories/). Even if there are no substantive updates to the page, you should update the "Last Reviewed" on date at the top of your category page to reflect that it's up to date.
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Manage - @jeremy - Direction vision reviewed -
Manage:Access - @mushakov - Category visions reviewed -
Manage:Analytics - @jshackelford - Category visions reviewed -
Manage:Compliance - @mattgonzales - Category visions reviewed -
Manage:Import - @hdelalic - Category visions reviewed
📈 Review Maturity Plans
Check each category is listed and up to date on the Maturity page. Category Maturity Plans can be updated by modifying categories.yml.
Ideally, all categories should have maturity plans with accurate dates (when is the category moving to the next level of maturity?) and links to epics that define scope for the next maturity level (what improvements are needed to achieve the next level of maturity?).
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Manage:Access - @mushakov - Maturity plan reviewed -
Manage:Analytics - @jshackelford - Maturity plan reviewed -
Manage:Compliance - @mattgonzales - Maturity plan reviewed -
Manage:Import - @hdelalic - Maturity plan reviewed
✍ Category/Maturity Review
After you've reviewed the above, please schedule a review session for sometime in May. Please include Jeremy (attendance required), all other Manage PMs (as optional), and add to the Manage Shared calendar (as optional).
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Manage - @jeremy - Review scheduled -
Manage:Access - @mushakov - Review scheduled -
Manage:Analytics - @jshackelford - Review scheduled -
Manage:Compliance - @mattgonzales - Review scheduled -
Manage:Import - @hdelalic - Review scheduled
cc @ebrinkman