Allow users to assign themself or a teammate to an epic from an epic itself

Problem to solve

This is similar to the epic boards larger job of:

Parker: When facilitating planning at scale across many teams or groups within my organization, I want a high level view of how my epics are moving through a workflow, so that I can track and report on the progress of features and initiatives.

Assigning epics to teammates or oneself allows our users have better context of who is responsible for these larger work items or actively working toward progressing them.

As a user planning work prior to any issues or MRs existing,

I need to be able to find and manage epics I am responsible for,

So I can easily move an epic through my workflow

Parker:

Intended users

• Parker (Product Manager)
• Delaney (Development Team Lead)

Proposal

MVC will be very similar to the current assignee experience in current MR and issue sidebars. As we improve this experience, we will improve consistently across all of these areas.

For MVC:

• Add the Assignee option under To Do and above the date selection

• Users can quickly assign themselves without clicking Edit

• Users can assignee no one, one user, or many users

• Figma link: https://www.figma.com/file/RYyyYL8Vmr8I4qvpfnAiSO/Epic-assignees?node-id=54%3A1592

Sidebar expanded	Sidebar collapsed	Current assignee experience

Further details

As we move to launch Epic/Program Boards &2864 we will be enabling users to work epics through a workflow just like issues. Assignment is a key part of common workflows involving epics, especially prior to individual issues being created and assigned.

Product, Eng Managers, and Program Managers will need to assignee themselves to epics they are responsible for, and easily access them.

Permissions and Security

Same as epics in GitLab Premium and GitLab Ultimate

Documentation

• Need to update epic documentation

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

• We can track number of users who have an epic assigned to them to follow adoption

What is the type of buyer?

Per our buyer model :

• Premium is for multiple team usage, with the purchasing decision led by one or more Directors

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