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VP of Product at GitLab
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Dmitriy in 2011
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GitLab is where you bring your
ideas to production
Single platform for modern developers. Code review, CI,
CD, monitoring in one package.
about.gitlab.com
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>300,000organizations
NASA, IBM, Redhat, CERN, SONY, Uber, EA, Alibaba, Airbnb, etc..
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What's special?
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175 people, zero offices
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(almost) everything we do is
open
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Open SourceStarted in 2011 by Dmitriy, who didn't have running water
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Remote-only
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Everyone works from home
or a coworking space
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We can hire the best people.
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Everything open?
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GitLab comes in two flavors
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Community Editiongitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce
MIT Expat license
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Enterprise Edition
gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee
Proprietary
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Everything in building GitLab
happens on public repositories
on GitLab.com..
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..even the development of
GitLab Enterprise Edition
gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee
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Our proprietary software is
publicly readable.
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You can see what it is, what it
does,
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And as a customer, you can even
contribute!
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But that's not all that is open..
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All our repositories, issue
trackers, CI/CD, internal tools,
are all public and open source on
GitLab.com.
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All our 'internal' documentation,
our methods, HR policies,
processes, function definitions
are all open source.
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about.gitlab.com/handbook
gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com
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This means that we've
eliminated the difference
between external and internal
contributor.
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Everyone can contribute.
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Half-way summary
— Everyone is at home working in their pyjamas
— Everything is open
— GitLab allows GitLab to build GitLab
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How do we actually get things
done?
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People should be able to work
whenever, wherever they want
and can..
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but still be productive and
collaborative
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Rule #1
Work asynchronously
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Working asynchronously means
writing everything down.
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"Who will document this?"
"Who will create an issue?"
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Use tech to your advantage, for
instance using chatops:
/gitlab-ce issue new Awesome
new button
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Make everyone able to
contribute. Not just engineers.
Everyone at GitLab can create a
merge request and commit
changes.
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Rule 1.1
Keep a single source of truth
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Rule 2
Set clear expectations and give
independence
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Build iteratively and avoid 'walls
of text'
Keep product specs simple.
about.gitlab.com/handbook/product
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Rule 3
Over communicate and make
opportunities to bond frequently
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Daily team call
— 5 minutes going over agenda
— 25 minutes sharing what you did for fun last week
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Summits
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Travel to meet colleagues
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Rule 4
Build something great.
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Almost everything we build in
GitLab has been driven by
people being excited about it.
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GitLab.com is has unlimited free
private, public repos, free CI,
unlimited free collaborators and is
awesome.
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Build something awesome.
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Questions?Job van der Voort
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