Ops & CI/CD PM Leadership Adjustment - Communication Plan
What
We will be adjusting the PM leadership team for the Ops and CI/CD Sections into having one leader covering the combined Ops Section which Verify, Package, Release, Configure & Monitor. This change only affects the Product Management function.
Here is the new org chart:
Kenny Johnston - Director of Product, Ops
- Jason Yavorska - Director of Product, CI, Runner, Progressive Deliver & Package
- Thao Yeager - Senior Product Manager, Verify:Continuous Integration
- Darren Eastman - Senior Product Manager, Verify:Runner
- Orit Golowinski - Senior Product Manager, Release:Progressive Delivery
- Tim Rizzi - Senior Product Manager, Package
- James Heimbuck - Senior Product Manager, Verify:Testing
- Jackie Meshell - Senior Product Manager, Release:Release Management
- Kevin Chu - Group Manager of Product, Configure & Monitor
Viktor Nagy - Senior Product Manager, Configure:System
Dov Hershkovitch - Senior Product Manager, Monitor:APM
Sarah Waldner - Senior Product Manager, Monitor:Health
FAQ
As an individual PM, are my responsibilities or scope changing?
No. You will keep the same stable counterparts, the same groups and the same scope.
I have a question or clarification that is stressing me out, what should I do?
Org changes can be stressful, and there are likely places where we haven't answered all questions. If you have a question don't hesitate to reach out to @kencjohnston (his cell phone number is in Slack). It's not worth you being stressed over a long evening or weekend to avoid the minor inconvenience of a non-work hours phone call. Honestly, anytime.
Why
As the product organization has grown we'd planned to create an additional layer of management in our Group Product Managers as reporting to Director+ PM Leadership. We've realized that in some stages our number of additional PMs and groups we plan to add in FY2021 does not require that structure. As a result we'll be consolidating the current CI/CD and Ops sections under one leader to more evenly spread the management burden amongst Product Leaders.
This also has the possible benefit of improving what was previously cross-section collaboration between Release and Configure - where we'd received feedback from external observers that we were danger of shipping our org chat.
Tasks
Pre-Announcement
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Complete this issue including adding What and Why -
Move this issue to a public project -
Coordinate with Christopher L, Christie, Mek, Sam, Darby
Announcement Activity
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Notify managerially impacted PM team members individually -
Notify non managerially impacted PM team members in sections as a group (note, Ops section PMs are either aware or OoO week of 2020-03-02) -
Notify current section stable counterparts -
Post in PM Channel -
X-Post in Company Announcements Channel -
Highlight on Company Call
Post-Announcement
- Adjust Job Descriptions and Product Leadership
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Add product org structure clarification - www-gitlab-com!42316 (merged) -
Additional Clarification & Cleanup on Group PM and Director distinction
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- Adjust reporting structure
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Adjust reporting structure to match above in teams.yml - www-gitlab-com!42479 (merged) -
Adjust reporting structure to match above in Bamboo
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- 1:1:1 Transitions for team members - Manager Handoff MR - www-gitlab-com!42425 (merged)
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Jackie - Jason - Kenny Manager Handoff Scheduled - @jyavorska -
James - Jason - Kenny Manager Handoff Scheduled - @jyavorska -
Viktor - Kenny - Kevin Manager Handoff Scheduled - @kencjohnston -
Daniel - Kenny - James Manager Handoff Scheduled - @kencjohnston
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- Setup Skip-level 1:1s Monthly
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Thao, Darren, Tim, Orit & Kenny -
Viktor, Sarah, Dov & Kenny
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- Adjust Other Section level content adjustments
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Adjust Kickoff for combined Ops with Kenny as DRI -
Monthly PM Review combined Ops with Kenny as DRI - !62 (merged)
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- Broader Team coordination adjustments
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Cancel CI/CD PMs meeting -
Reschedule as broader Ops PMs meeting
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- Schedule introduction Coffee Chats with indirect reports
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Schedule Coffee chat with Orit - @kencjohnston -
Schedule Coffee chat with Darren - @kencjohnston -
Schedule Coffee chat with Thao @kencjohnston -
Schedule Coffee chat with Tim @kencjohnston
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Post Official Merge of Ops and CI/CD in www-gitlab-com repo tasks
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Update sections.yml to remove CI/CD and have Ops include Verify, Package and release - Adjust stable counterparts as needed - www-gitlab-com!42825 (merged) -
GC scheduling combined with Ops with Kenny as DRI - www-gitlab-com!44106 (merged) -
GC prep issues combined with Ops with Kenny as DRI - !72 (merged) -
Adjust OKRs assignment at the Section level as needed -
Combine direction pages - start with CI/CD and add in Configure and Monitor