FY21-Q3 Engineering Division OKRs

Objective (IACV): Run GitLab.com more efficiently => 84%

• Key Result: GitLab.com on financial plan (Infrastructure)
• Key Result: All GitLab.com stateless services on stock helm chart => 52%
  • Development Department
  • Infrastructure Department
• Key Result: Eliminate current Support cost for 'free users' (Support)

Objective (Product): Increase dogfooding, performance, and productivity => 83%

• Key Result: Complete 5 Dogfooding initiatives => 80%
  • Project planning & Portfolio management => 52%
    • Development
    • UX
    • Quality
  • Monitoring:Incident Management => 100%
    • Development
    • Infrastructure
  • Interactive Runbooks (Infrastructure)
  • Socialize Security Health Assessment and populate backlogs (Security)
  • Security Approval at Gitlab (Development)
• Key Result: GitLab performance faster than Github => 88%
  • Migrate Vue components to Pajamas (UX)
  • Migrate 20 HAML component instances to Pajamas (Development)
  • Improve the LCP performance of the top 5 most visited routes on GitLab.com by 25% (Development)
• Key Result: Raise Development Department Member MR rate from ~8 to 10

Objective (Team): Expand the capabilities of our team => 92%

• Key Result: Complete two diversity initiatives => 100%
  • Build and launch upstream diversity program => 100%
  • 75% of Managers in the Engineering Division complete DIB training
• Key Result: Ship first iteration of architecture discipline with staff+ ICs
• Key Result: Improve wider community contribution and core team efficiency with reviewer assignee automation and contribution tutorial blog post (Quality)

Retrospection

See linked department-level OKR issues for more specific retrospection on pass-thru KRs

Good

• Achievement was generally high
• Our ambition when we kicked off the quarter was very high

Bad

• We tested our ambition to failure this quarter
• We didn't complete the optional equipment donation aspect of the upstream diversity working group
• We took too long to finalize OKR wording in the "dogfood plan" working group (55 days total)

Try

• Take on moderately less in Q4 to account for Q3's ambition, the holidays, and the taxing nature of the pandemic
• Follow thru on the equipment donation aspect of the upstream diversity working group