~/talk

Everyone Can Contribute

on YouTube 29m
Talkat CTO Craft Con: The Strategic CTO 2023 · 2023-05-23..05-24· [engineering-leadership, developer-experience]

speaker

name:Steve Challis
links:none on file

resources

video:https://youtu.be/RkX_WSGKwKQ
slides:none on file

summary

GitLab shows concrete results: 1→2,000 employees across 65 countries, community contributions 20→200/month from 4,000 contributors, and 30 million monthly users, tied to a Team Ops playbook built on a public, editable handbook and an open product roadmap. Practices include shared reality (public roadmap, editable pages, issue-driven work), asynchronous communication and note-taking (Google Docs/IDE edits), DRI decisions and decision velocity, plus OKRs linked to KPIs and published failures so contribution actually accelerates innovation.

AI-written summary · about

chapters (10)

  1. 0:00Introduction to GitLab
  2. 2:09Defining innovation
  3. 5:20Team Ops principles
  4. 6:25Tanuki naming example
  5. 9:18Shared reality in practice
  6. 11:24Everyone contributes
  7. 13:50Decision velocity
  8. 15:19Measuring outcomes
  9. 17:03All-remote company
  10. 18:26Summary and Q&A

related talks

~/search
type to search 6,249 conferences, 138,987 speakers and 185,172 talks
~/help
cmdctrl k
search every conference, speaker and series
/
focus the filter search
h
home
c
conferences
s
speakers
e
series
t
light / dark — the status bar button does the same
?
this help
esc
close this, then clear every filter — or just the search, while you are typing in it

Ignored while you are typing. Pages without a filter rail have no search to focus.