Learnability: Structured Learning - Beyond Basics --> Create content for 'What can GitLab do for my role (Project Management)?'

Summary: 'What can GitLab do for my role (Project Management)'

The content topic addresses the need to provide very basic information for users new to Git and GitLab by providing them with essentials to help them understand what GitLab can do for them/their role. This can help them in applying their knowledge of Git and GitLab to their job. A good reference of personas to perhaps focus on: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/strategic-marketing/usecase-gtm/version-control-collaboration/#user-persona

Supporting research
  • Recent research revealed that users new to GitLab may not fully understand what GitLab can do for them/their role. As a result, they have to search online to understand this topic, which may or may not be helpful, depending on what they find. We can help here by: 1) making it easy to locate this content, 2) provide a simple narrative to answer the questions outlined below, and 3) cater the content to align with our messaging of GitLab, if appropriate. Providing this information can help new and existing users better understand what GitLab can do for them/their role.

Questions the content should answer

  • "What can GitLab do for me?" - the answer here should be high-level, applicable to any role. Items such as 'more transparency', 'increased collaboration', 'efficiency', etc could be called out.
  • "What can GitLab offer, by role?" - ideal if this is able to provide high-level answers, but role. Ex: Devs, PM, PD, PjM, etc. Another area of focus here is to make sure non-Developers feel like there's a benefit to using GitLab - and here's why...

Existing content

This would be content that currently exists on the given content topic. In cases where existing content exists, we can just leverage all or some of the existing content.

For Project Management:

Examples of other content that answers the questions

Content gaps

These are areas in the existing content that aren't answering the main questions the content topic aims to address.

  • For Project Management, there appears to be a substantial amount of information available. Unknown if the above content is currently crafted in a way that's simplified into answering the question of 'what can GitLab do for me, as a Project Manager?'

What needs to be done?

This section describes the work that needs to be done for this content topic. This could be reusing or adjusting existing content, or creating new content to address any content gaps

  • For Project Management: determine which of the above content can be utilized for this effort. Determine if they are up to date and if new versions need to be created. Also determine if this content is comprehensive to Project Management & GitLab.

How will this content be accessed?

How users access the content is something that needs to be considered. This section documents how we designed the content to be accessed by our users. For example: the tutorials page, YouTube searching, etc

  • XYZ

Where will this content reside?

Related to how content will be accessed, it's also important to understand where this content will reside. For example: YouTube, the docs site, etc.

  • XYZ

Link(s) to the final content

Please link the final content (in the form of MRs) to this issue.

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