Research: Environments
What’s this issue all about?
Implementing changes related environments usability: &767 (closed)
Who is the target user of the feature?
- Rachel (Release Manager)
- Delaney (Development Team Lead)
- Sasha (Software Developer)
- Designer
- QA
- Anyone could be involved in code review
What questions are you trying to answer?
- How difficult is it to use environments?
- What would make people want to use environments more?
- Are cloud providers a limitation to using GitLab Environments?
- What are essential functionalities we must support with neviornments?
- Blue green deployments
- Rollbacks/roll forwards
- Permissions
- Security
Additional questions
- More questions in Survey Section
What hypotheses and/or assumptions do you have?
- Suspect people are not using environments as intended or as much as they should be
- Perception that environments are not necessary when deploying with GitLab
- Users don’t understand the value of environments or use cases
What decisions will you make based on the research findings?
- Understand how we can improve the usage of environments and build features incrementally
When do you need this research to be completed? (Milestone or date)
We would like to identify JTBD in 12.9, for scope and design creation in 12.10 to have and engineering MVC in 13.0
Edited by Jackie Porter