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David DeSanto: belief

14 Apr 2024 Lenny's Podcast The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSanto (CPO)

“We have I think 72,000 open issues right now in our backlog and it'd be hard to dig through all of that.”

— David DeSanto

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David DeSanto
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belief
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14 Apr 2024
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Lenny's Podcast

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…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. And by the way, we also put, that's all the way down to the group level. So on our marketing site, if you go to aboutGitlab.com, again /direction. Under direction is the product direction that we've set for the next year. And then that links out to those stages and groups so you can really follow along. And when you get lower into that to the group level, they're linking to their epics, their issues and their tasks. And our issue tracker so you can easily find them. We have I think 72,000 open issues right now in our backlog and it'd be hard to dig through all of that. It's people creating new ones, customers commenting on it, just keeps the backlog really large, but you can go through that marketing site that we have and get to the thing you're actually interested in reading about. There it is. I'm looking at it. I love it. When someone joins GitLab and things don't work out, they don't end up being a fit. Other than them not just having the skills they need, what do you find is the most common reason for them not being a fit at GitLab?…

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