Rename Manage:Workspace to Manage:Organization
Per Proposal: Adopt Workspace terminology for Remot... (Product#5129 - closed), we are naming the remote development offering workspace
.
This is the result of research performed by both ~"group::workspace" and ~"group::editor". ~"group::workspace" found evidence that Workspace
is generally being used to describe the organizational or admin level of a tool. ~"group::editor" found evidence that Workspace
is often used in relation to remote environments. We concluded that there are few tools that try to accommodate both of these concepts in one platform, and if they do, they chose different terms. The result of UX research performed around the appropriate terminology was that most respondents associated Workspace
with remote development environments.
We anticipate that sharing a name with a solution that is not actually part of ~"group::workspace" will cause confusion both internally and externally. Hence we propose to rename Manage:Workspace
to Manage:Organization
. Manage:Organization
is:
- Better suited to describe what the team's focus actually is.
- More inclusive of all the areas overseen by ~group::workspace. ~"group::workspace" is responsible for subgroups, projects, membership, inheritance and users. Those are all areas relating to how an
Organization
works in GitLab.
References
- Proposal: Adopt Workspace terminology for Remot... (Product#5129 - closed)
- Workspace naming (gitlab-org/gitlab#373939 - closed)
- Naming Remote Development offering (Product#4812 - closed)
- Workspace Naming Research Q3-Q4 FY23 (gitlab-org/ux-research#2147 - closed)
- Align terminology between Pods, Workspaces, and... (Product#5136 - closed)
Process
Examples
- Rename Sharding team/category to Pods (#13367 - closed)
- Rename Product Analytics to Product Intelligence (#10100 - closed)
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/manage/integrations/team/-/issues/159+
Approvals
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Chief Product Officer: -
VP of Product: David -
Director of Product, Manage: Orit -
Director of Engineering, Manage: Michelle -
Director of Product Design, Manage: Valerie
Informed
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Chief Technology Officer: Ashley -
VP of Development: -
Director of Quality Engineering: -
Engineering Productivity (by @ mentioning @gl-quality/eng-prod
) -
Product Marketing Manager relevant to the stage group(s): Aathira -
Senior Manager, Technical Writing: Kati Paizee or Diana Logan -
Engineering Manager for Quality Engineering:
Things to update
No workflow impact
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Handbook pages -
https://about.gitlab.com/direction/manage/ | MR -
https://about.gitlab.com/direction/manage/workspace/ | MR -
https://about.gitlab.com/direction/manage/subgroups/ | MR -
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/dev/manage/workspace/ | MR -
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/dev/manage/ | MR -
https://about.gitlab.com/direction/manage/user-profile/ | MR -
https://about.gitlab.com/direction/manage/#workspace-1 | MR
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Internal handbook pages -
docs.gitlab.com -
Update marketing material -
Slide decks
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Potential workflow impact
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stages.yml - Rename group Manage:Workspace to Manage:Organiz... (!115438 - merged) -
teams.yml - Update Manage Workspace to Organization (gitlab-org/async-retrospectives!683 - merged) -
Ensure that GitLab Bot auto-labeling can be updated prior to the change -
Update policies/stages/report/quad-planning-issues.yml | MR -
Tag the group Technical Writer in the merge request to ensure documentation metadata is updated after the category change is merged | MR -
GitLab projects -
GitLab team retrospectives > Manage Stage > Workspace -
Manage > Manage Workspace > Workspace Project Updates
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Gitlab Groups -
Manage > Manage Workspace
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Templates -
Feature flag issue template: not necessary -
Planning issue template
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Epics -
Issues -
Labels -
group::workspace >> group::organization -
help group::workspace >> help group::organization -
workspace-error-budget >> organization-error-budget
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Rename Slack channels -
Change Slack channel references in stages.yml
| MR -
Geekbot -
#g_manage_workspace -
#g_manage_workspace_daily
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Triage ops -
Update team yaml individual files for relevant team members -
Update product_group
RSpec metadata for E2E tests located in qa/qa/specs/features from:workspace
to:organization
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Update Sisense -
Feature flags: not necessary -
Update Ally.io: we are moving away from Ally.io, so this is obsolete -
Update CODEOWNERS | MR -
Update BambooHR: no references to group name found -
Update Workday: no references to group name found -
YouTube Unfiltered Playlist. -
Rename issue boards -
Team Page -
Dovetail
Communications
Announce in:
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Slack: #s_enablement, #whats-happening-at-gitlab, #g_sharding, #development, #vp-development, #cto, #product
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Proceeding Announcement -
Finished Announcement
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