Auto DevOps Adoption

Background

Sid highlighted that we have a missed opportunity when it comes to Auto DevOps (ADO). It can be a singular driver of SPU for all of the Ops Section stages if we encourage adoption, but to date we've accepted the local optimization of decomposing ADO via templates because we've not singularly invested in it. Now the result is that many project templates don't work with ADO, ADO only works in a handful of application types, and Product Managers don't consider adding their features to ADO as a method for improving usage.

References

• Video of original discussion
• Notes doc from original discussion
• Amazing comment from NadiaS on the UX between GitLab CI and ADO

Next steps to be finished by the end of February 2021

• The vision is clear. We should held a single vision discussion event to make sure we understand each other.
• Define a single success metric for ADO. Proposal - the change in Stages Per User (SPU). - needs a link to Periscope widget
• Come up with a product & tech proposal to see where we want to get and what are the first steps
• If there is anything to deprecate/remove, do it by %14.0