FY21-Q2 Product Design Managers OKR: Improve understanding of development and design review process by becoming active contributors

• Key Result: Have each Product Design Manager (including VP of UX and Product Design Director) get at least one change for the gitlab-org/gitlab project merged. These changes should be created via the GDK (Instructions how to set up the GDK). 7/8 => 87%

• Stretch Goal: Have 21 changes merged in total. 25/21 => 119%

• Participants: For the Key Result, it would be amazing if every Product Design Manager would participate and contribute at least one change. @clenneville picked one up a few months ago, and she said that it changed her perspective! @tauriedavis and @mvanremmerden will make sure to provide support to everyone for selecting suitable issues, getting the GDK to work, and fixing problems.

• Goal: The main goal is to give every Product Design Manager a deeper insight into this process, so that we can empathize more deeply with not only our users, but also the designers in our teams. This will hopefully help us support them in case of questions or when giving advice how to deal with making small changes or doing reviews via GDK.

GOOD:

• We can make meaningful improvements to our product while also learning first hand about how design and development works at GitLab and what challenges our designers face.

BAD:

• This might take time and focus away from other parts of our work.

TRY:

• It would be amazing if we could connect our effort on this with the two OKRs to improve lovability of issues and merge requests.

Related Merge Requests

Title	Status (✏️ working on it, 🔍 in review, ✅ merged)	Author
Remove search icon from Project find file button	✅	@tauriedavis
Migrate new board issue buttons to GlButton	✅	@tauriedavis
Replace heart icon	✅	@tauriedavis
Migrate log controller buttons to GlButton	✅	@tauriedavis
Submit license policy button	✅	@tauriedavis
Add Web IDE Solarized Dark theme support	✅	@mvanremmerden
Move link to file view to bottom bar in Web IDE	✅	@mvanremmerden
Remove border from related merge requests/issues counter	✅	@mvanremmerden
Fix positioning of mr and issue counter on epic trees and board headers	✅	@mvanremmerden
Change loading message for merge widget	✅	@mvanremmerden
Remove designs hover border	✅	@mvanremmerden
Migrate empty state button	✅	@clenneville
Update deprecated button in feature flag table	✅	@clenneville
Update Expand button	✅	@clenneville
Replace deprecated button in Web IDE	✅	@clenneville
Update New Epic button	✅	@clenneville
Update license button	✅	@clenneville
Update error search clear button	✅	@clenneville
Update WIP buttons	✅	@clenneville
Project header buttons	✅	@clenneville
Markdown header buttons	✅	@clenneville
Sentence case "Learn More" button in Threat Monitoring	✅	@vkarnes
Improve error messages when adding a child epic and it fails	✅	@mikelong
Update group and project variables help text	✅	@nudalova
Fixed Ops-Settings page titles capitalization	✅	@jmandell

Retrospective

GOOD

• 103% attainment
• 7 of 8 managers participated
• Head start on Q3 Pajamas migration OKR, including creating documentation to support the wider team

BAD

• Not every manager participated

TRY

• See if UX Managers participate in the Q3 OKR.