Remote and Open: How GitLab functions (presentation at Landing.careers)

Remote and Open
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Job
VP of Product at GitLab
@jobvo

Dmitriy in 2011

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

>300,000organizations
NASA, IBM, Redhat, CERN, SONY, Uber, EA, Alibaba, Airbnb, etc..

What's special?

175 people, zero ofﬁces

(almost) everything we do is
open

Open SourceStarted in 2011 by Dmitriy, who didn't have running water

Remote-only

Everyone works from home
or a coworking space

We can hire the best people.

Everything open?

GitLab comes in two ﬂavors

Community Editiongitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce
MIT Expat license

Enterprise Edition
gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee
Proprietary

Everything in building GitLab
happens on public repositories
on GitLab.com..

..even the development of
GitLab Enterprise Edition
gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee

Our proprietary software is
publicly readable.

You can see what it is, what it
does,

And as a customer, you can even
contribute!

But that's not all that is open..

All our repositories, issue
trackers, CI/CD, internal tools,
are all public and open source on
GitLab.com.

All our 'internal' documentation,
our methods, HR policies,
processes, function deﬁnitions
are all open source.

about.gitlab.com/handbook
gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com

This means that we've
eliminated the difference
between external and internal
contributor.

Everyone can contribute.

Half-way summary
— Everyone is at home working in their pyjamas
— Everything is open
— GitLab allows GitLab to build GitLab

How do we actually get things
done?

People should be able to work
whenever, wherever they want
and can..

but still be productive and
collaborative

Rule #1
Work asynchronously

Working asynchronously means
writing everything down.

"Who will document this?"
"Who will create an issue?"

Use tech to your advantage, for
instance using chatops:
/gitlab-ce issue new Awesome
new button

Make everyone able to
contribute. Not just engineers.
Everyone at GitLab can create a
merge request and commit
changes.

Rule 1.1
Keep a single source of truth

Rule 2
Set clear expectations and give
independence

Build iteratively and avoid 'walls
of text'
Keep product specs simple.
about.gitlab.com/handbook/product

Rule 3
Over communicate and make
opportunities to bond frequently

Daily team call
— 5 minutes going over agenda
— 25 minutes sharing what you did for fun last week

Summits

Travel to meet colleagues

Rule 4
Build something great.

Almost everything we build in
GitLab has been driven by
people being excited about it.

about.gitlab.com
GitLab.com is has unlimited free
private, public repos, free CI,
unlimited free collaborators and is
awesome.

Build something awesome.

Questions?Job van der Voort
@jobvo

Remote and Open: How GitLab functions (presentation at Landing.careers)

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