David DeSanto: belief

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…What's the thinking there? The thing is to make sure we're always going towards where we think our customers are going to need. And so to give you an example, the three-year strategy says our goal is become the first all ops platform. And that essentially to say that we want to be the single source of truth for RD organizations, and that's not just the people who are in R&D like product, UX, engineering, infrastructure, but for the teams that work around them including legal, sales, product marketing, compliance and so forth. For us, all ops means it's everything that's needed to do that. That's what we've built, not just source code management and code review and so forth or CICD. We've added security and compliance, we've added enterprise-led planning. We're even starting to add service desk service management functionality in GitLab as well. So for us, that's our long-term goal. And then we empower the teams to get there the way they think we need to get there for their area or a new area that needs to be created. For those who are not as familiar with GitLab, we're structured by sections. Those are areas like dev, sec and ops. Those have stages in them that map the DevOps tool chain, like create plan, monitor, verify, and then those have groups in them. And those groups are that lowest group I'm talking about where we've pushed on the priority and those will be the things that have our categories. So there's a group that's called environments that manages our Kubernetes integration, our deployment dashboard and so forth. And that of course then all feeds back up to that top level vision. And so it's allowed us to be structured in a way that helps us ensure that the people who need to work closely together can across those groups, and allows us to tie stages together to make sure we're hitting the outcomes that we need. And so that is how that all then fits together. There's a group direction, there's a stage and section strategy, and then there's longer-term vision and then mission. And I love that all of this is there in the handbook. You can see all this and then you can also see your cadence for revisiting it, planning team meetings, executive staff discussions.…

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