Update Product Direction
- Objective
- Direction section order
- Tasks
- Merge Requests
- Open Questions
- Out of Scope, but Potential Later Iterations
- Supporting Material
Objective
Update Product Direction handbook page by Incorporate details from Product SKO presentation so Direction is SSOT for FY Product plan.
Direction section order
- Overview
- Guiding Principles
- Investment Themes
- DevSecOps Stages?
- Personas?
- Upcoming Releases
Tasks
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Add an overview section with page purpose + summary of FY24 Direction + elements of direction + how Direction fits in Cadence -
Move up DevSecOps cycle image instead of Wikipedia reference. Can link out to image if better.
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Focus the Direction page on next year by moving items not concerning next year to company-level pages with longer-term time horizons: -
Consolidate vision
on the company Vision page by moving over details from Direction vision section -
Remove situation
andstrategic challenges
sections; consolidate with strategy and mitigating concerns pages -
Remove Product strategy
by removing from Direction page and adding to other relevant pages -
Fix broken links to vision,
3-year strategy,
situation,
strategic challenges,
product strategy` sections
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Add Product guiding principles
to the Direction page-
Change the name of Product Principles to avoid name clash -
Fix broken links that break in repo
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Remove reference to R&D investment -
Add descriptions/rationale to FY24 Investment Themes -
Move DevSecOps Stages and Personas after Guiding Principles and Investment Themes sections -
Create a single roadmap view that is easily consumed by customers - use solutions for now for categories to break roadmap apart by
- https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/release-posts/process-updates/
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Edit cadence page to mention Direction page only defined once per year -
Move Mitigating Low-End Disruption
section -
Move/reduce Scope
section -
Move Mobile Strategy
and ML/AI section -
Move Your Contributions
section -
Move How we plan releases
andPrevious Releases
- leave upcoming releases -
Fix DevSecOps stages on direction page and in .yml including SEG -
Share updates https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/#informing-team-members-about-the-changes
Merge Requests
- Add
Overview
section to Direction page - Update direction cadence to one year on
Cadence
page - Move
Vision
off Direction - Move
Situation
andStrategic Challenges
sections off Direction - Move
Product Strategy
off Direction - Move
Mitigating Low-End Disruption
section - Move
Scope
off Direction - Consolidate
Releases
sections - Clean up
ML/AI
andcross-stage
sections - Rename
Product Principles
page
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Already Merged Open Questions
- single roadmap view or upcoming releases ?
- Reference https://internal-handbook.gitlab.io/handbook/product/investment/ in investment section?
- Where do DevSecOps Stages and Personas sections go?
- Does the 2023 maturity goal need to be referenced still?
- From Direction page "To ensure rapid progress, we have a 3-year goal to have 50% of our categories at lovable maturity by the end of 2023"
- Strategy page mentions BIC in Strategy now
- Separate
Depth over breadth
vs.Differentiate
by pulling focus items- Are key areas in
Depth over breadth
different than key areas inDifferentiate
? *Depth over breadth
= improving key areas to best-in-class focusingDifferentiate
on having all BIC items work seamlessly together to reinforce our primary point of differentiation
- Are key areas in
- include
We would also expect to automate handling of product usage data collection, GDPR compliance of data under management, cookie and privacy management, experimentation tools, A/B testing, etc.
to Vision page? - Remove Stages per Organization and replace with something else? Like https://gitlab.com/gitlab-data/product-analytics/-/issues/982#note_1282380262
- Keep the video? https://www.youtube.com/embed/yI29xFAgKoA
- where to place these two items? Don't fit in SaaS principles and don't fit neatly in an investment theme. (removed from strategy section)
- Offering GitLab-hosted services to self-managed customers to provide additional value that may not be feasible to deliver in a self-managed environment, e.g. automated cloud backups.
- Offer as a different GitLab-hosted deployment option for single tenant customers and specific geographic regions to meet the regulatory, security and data residency requirements of various customer segments.
- Keep and move content creation paragraph from
Vision
section on Direction page? - Add links for every example listed in FY24 Investment themes?
- Should links be to epics or direction pages?
- Determine performance indicator now as part of this or later as part of #5549 ?
Out of Scope, but Potential Later Iterations
- Rethink the Product Principles and evaluate overlap with:
- Direction page strategy (pre-removal) ( make a proposal to consolidate or eliminate info)
- GitLab Values
- GitLab the Product, [Product Processes](
- Being a PM
- PM Responsibilities
- Processes
- dynamic, auto-updating roadmap view
- Use wishlist or direction scripts to pull in dynamically using labels like this https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/blob/master/source/direction/_singlegroup.erb to pull in SEG on Direction page
- consolidate tailwinds onto strategy page or Mitigating Concerns
- Make the Direction page more digestible like Cadence page
- Document strategic items from IR website somewhere in Handbook?
Supporting Material
Edited by Ryan Wedmore