Clearer terms regarding Product Leadership and Product Leadership Team
Why is this change being made?
This section of the Product Leadership page in the handbook is difficult to understand:
Proposed changes
- Change h2 from Product Leaders to Product Leaders and Directors
- Add an h3 header and section for the
@gl-product-leadership
tier - Revise the "Product Leadership Team" header to refer to this tier as "Product Directorship"
- Change
@gl-product-plt
to@gl-product-directorship
- Change h2 "General Product Organizational Structure" to "Product Organization" (not seen in screenshot)
Group membership
For reference, members of these groups can be seen here:
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@gl-product-leadership
(19 members) -
@gl-product-plt
(13 members) - The following are members of
-leadership
and not-plt
- Carolyn Braza
- Fabian Zimmer
- Jennifer Garcia
- Kevin Chu
- Melissa Ushakov
- Sarah Waldner
- There are no members of
-plt
who are not also members of-leadership
Author Checklist
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Provided a concise title for this Merge Request (MR) -
Added a description to this MR explaining the reasons for the proposed change, per say why, not just what - Copy/paste the Slack conversation to document it for later, or upload screenshots. Verify that no confidential data is added, and the content is SAFE
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Assign reviewers for this MR to the correct Directly Responsible Individual/s (DRI) - If the DRI for the page/s being updated isn’t immediately clear, then assign it to one of the people listed in the
Maintained by
section on the page being edited - If your manager does not have merge rights, please ask someone to merge it AFTER it has been approved by your manager in #mr-buddies
- The when to get approval handbook section explains the workflow in more detail
- If the DRI for the page/s being updated isn’t immediately clear, then assign it to one of the people listed in the
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If the changes affect team members, or warrant an announcement in another way, please consider posting an update in #whats-happening-at-gitlab linking to this MR - If this is a change that directly impacts the majority of global team members, it should be a candidate for #company-fyi. Please work with internal communications and check the handbook for examples.
Edited by Brian Rhea