Beyond Agile
CONVERSATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
AT gITLAB
FILIPA LACERDA
Senior Frontend Engineer, Release and Verify
@filipalacerda
gitlab.com/filipa
- what is gitlab
- how did it started
- company
- how do we ship features
- how to apply conversational development
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What is gitlab?
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One product that covers the entire software development lifecycle.
DEVELOPMENT
DELIVERY
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a BRIEF HISTORY
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2011: sTART OF gITLAB
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2012: gitlab.com
Sid comes in
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2013: "I want to work on gitlab full time"
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Gitlab ce & gitlab ee
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2014: OFFICIAL COMPANY
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2015: y combinator
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~420 employees
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0 offices
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47 countries
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16 timezones
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$145.5m in funding
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distributed team
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Own your own schedule
no work hours, no tracking
we only care about how well you do your job
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♥️
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RESULTS
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no limit paid time off policy
and no tracking of the days you take
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bonding
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OPEN COMPANY
EVERYONE CAN CONTRIBUTE
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(almost) everything is open
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handbook
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook
hiring policy
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/
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paid time off policy
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/paid-time-off/
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salary calculator
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-compensation/#compensation-calculator
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product
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/
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~88 releases
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22ND OF EACH MONTH
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~420 employees
0 offices
47 different countries & 16 different timezones
community edition & enterprise edition
open source
open company
$145.5 million in funding
88 releases
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but how?
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everything starts with an issue
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/communication/#everything-starts-with-an-issue
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Discuss
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SCHEDULE
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👨💼
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👩💼
👨💼
💥
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👨🎨👨💻👩💻
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🗓️
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8th -> 7th
master
feature
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✅
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🚀
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production
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Conversational development
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1. Shorter cycles
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BORING SOLUTIONS
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MINIMALLY VIABLE CHANGE
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MVP
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MVF
MVF
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MVC
MVC
MVC
MVC
MVC
MVC
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AUTOMATE ALL THE THINGS!
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continuous deployment
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good test coverage
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review apps
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easy trackable changes
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roll-out and roll-back
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faster feedback
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deploy more where it hurts
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2. write everything down
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single source of truth
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EMPOWER PEOPLE TO MAKE DECISIONS
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without need for consensus
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trust that you'll know better once something is released
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metrics
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Thank you!
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QA
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GDG Lisbon
By Filipa Lacerda
